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Vendor Directory

3D Nature, LLC
3D Nature LLC develops and supports World Construction Set, Visual Nature Studio and Scene Express the world leaders in photorealistic terrain modeling, visualization, rendering and animation and real time software.

American Forests
American Forests is a world leader in planting trees for environmental restoration, a pioneer in the science and practice of urban forestry, and a primary communicator of the benefits of trees and forests.

Autodesk
Autodesk building information modeling (BIM) software facilitates a new way of working collaboratively using a model created from consistent, reliable design information – enabling faster decision-making, better documentation, and the ability to evaluate sustainable building and infrastructure design alternatives using analysis to predict performance before breaking ground.

Auto DesSys
AutoDesSys offers 3D solutions beyond the mainstream, commercially available software by researching and developing technology at the forefront of the software industry. It offers its customers innovative solutions that allow them to explore and then convey their design ideas to their clients with clarity and detail, refine them to suit the practical demands of construction, and save time and money in the execution and delivery of the final product.

Blender Foundation
Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.

Bubble.us
Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online.

Bunkspeed
Bunkspeed was founded in November of 2002 with the philosophy that 3D software should be easy to learn,simple to use and produce stunning photographic quality results.

Caligari
Caligari's trueSpace7.6 is a complete modeling, texturing, animating, rendering, and 3D collaboration tool, used by everyone from 3D enthusiasts to illustrators, researchers to teachers, architects to design engineers, and more.

Caliper
Caliper Corporation is a technology leader in the development of geographic information systems (GIS) and transportation software. Caliper is also a highly regarded consulting and R&D provider offering professional services in quantitative management consulting, transportation, and decision support systems development.

Citilabs
Citilabs is a software development firm which develops and offers Cube, an integrated suite of transportation planning software used around the globe. Currently Cube consists of 8 modules, including Cube Voyager and Cube Avenue, which offer newly advanced tools for toll and transit modeling.

Corel
Corel is one of the world's top software companies with more than 100 million active users in over 75 countries. Through the years, we've built a reputation for delivering innovative, trusted products that are easier to learn and use, helping people achieve new levels of productivity.

EI Technology Group
EI Technology Group, LLC is a progressive technology company that specializes in the design and distribution of award-winning 3D Animation applications for both Macintosh, Windows and Intel Mac operating systems.

Electric Rain
Swift 3D, and the licensing of the company's proprietary RAViX 3D Vector Rendering Technology, Electric Rain has quickly become the industry-leading developer and supplier of 3D-to-vector Flash solutions.

E-on Software
E-on Software is the leading developer of quality solutions for the creation, rendering and integration of natural 3D environments.

ERDAS
ERDAS provides solutions that meet the full spectrum of an organization's requirements, transforming geospatial data into information useful for decision-making processes.

ESRI
ESRI designs and develops the world's leading geographic information system (GIS) technology.

Geomantics
Geomantics provide software design and development services for business and educational users

GeoVISTA Center
The GeoVISTA center conducts and coordinates integrated and innovative research in GIScience, with strong emphasis on geovisualization.

Google
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. 

Holistic City Ltd
Holistic City Ltd was incorporated in 2005. We are a software development company and strategic urban design consultancy, specializing in technical solutions for the city design community.

InfraCycle
InfraCycle provides municipalities to have a better understanding of the bottom line short and long-term costs and revenues resulting from land use plans and development proposals. Municipalities use InfraCycle so they can complete impact analysis before a decision about land use is made.

Invis Limited
Inivis is committed to developing AC3D's functionality and multi-platform availability, whilst maintaining its user-friendly and client-focused reputation.

K2Vi
K2Vi is an innovative, fast rendering, real-time interactive, 3D visualization virtual reality software platform, that allows you to quickly generate stunning interactive 3D environments from a wide variety of data formats. As a software tool, K2Vi allows you to both visualize, and interface with, spatial data from 'within' a Virtual Reality environment.

Limewire
LimeWire is the world's most popular peer-to-peer file-sharing program.

Luxology
Luxology, LLC is an independent technology group consisting of many of the most notable brains in the field of 3D animation and special FX.

Massive
Massive is the premier simulation and visualization solution system for generating and visualizing realistic crowd behaviors and autonomous agent driven animation for a variety of industries, including film, games, television, architecture, transportation, engineering, and robotics.

MAXON
MAXON's product line is centered around its core applications CINEMA 4D, a leading animation package for media production, and BodyPaint 3D, its pioneering 3D painting package. These applications are characterized by their speed, dependability and state-of-the-art technology.

Microsoft
Through its network of Web properties, Microsoft provides you with access to a variety of resources, including developer tools, download areas, communication forums and product information (collectively "Services"). The Services, including any updates, enhancements, new features, and/or the addition of any new Web properties, are subject to the TOU.

NatureServe
NatureServe is a non-profit conservation organization whose mission is to provide the scientific basis for effective conservation action.

Never Center
Nevercenter Ltd. Co. is a private company devoted to the development of artfully-designed, user-focused software for Windows, Mac, and mobile platforms. 

NewTek
NewTek has built its success on the concept of providing powerful, intuitive products at prices that are very affordable.

NPA Satellite Mapping
NPA Group provide comprehensive, high quality Earth Observation solutions that improve the effectiveness of decision making.

Open Geospatial Consortium
The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.® (OGC) is a non-profit, international, voluntary consensus standards organization that is leading the development of standards for geospatial and location based services.

Open Source Geospatial Foundation
The Open Source Geospatial Foundation, or OSGeo, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to support and promote the collaborative development of open geospatial technologies and data. The foundation provides financial, organizational and legal support to the broader open source geospatial community.

Placeways, LLC
Placeways, LLC is a software and services firm specializing in interactive tools for geographic decisions.  The mission of Placeways is to give people a new, clearer picture of their physical world and all its interrelated dimensions.

Presagis
Presagis is an industry leader in commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) modeling,simulation, and embedded display graphics software.

ProProfs
ProProfs provides free knowledge sharing tools & free online education

RIKS
RIKS provides software tools to support planners by allowing them to test and analyze the outcomes of potential decisions. Their tools consist of a range of computational models that are integrated together to form a Spatial Decision Support System.

Savannah Simulations
Savannah Simulations AG is focused on simulation software development , training and project services.

Side Effects
Side Effects is software development company focusing on 3D animation

Siemens
Siemens AG (Berlin and Munich) is a global powerhouse in electronics and electrical engineering, operating in the industry, energy and healthcare sectors.

solidThinking
solidThinking is the industrial design/styling software that is redefining the way design concepts are created and evaluated. It accelerates the concept development process, bringing ideas to life quickly, dramatically and cost-effectively.

SolidWorks
Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corp. is the leader in 3D CAD technology. At SolidWorks we're dedicated to providing engineers, designers and other creative professionals with the tools they need to design the world's greatest products.

Spatial Data Systems
Spatial Data Systems is an Information Integration and Spatial Data Management solutions software company that develops software applications for Spatial Analysis, Spatial Data Integration and Online Mapping.

Wacom Technology
From product development and graphic design to the media and entertainment sectors, Wacom facilitates the work of individuals and workgroups with truly natural ways to work with digital content.

Web3D Consortium
The Web3D Consortium was formed to provide a forum for the creation of open standards for Web3D specifications, and to accelerate the worldwide demand for products based on these standards through the sponsorship of market and user education programs.

WebGIS
WebGIS is where you can find all the leading information and resources for Geographical Information Systems.

Wrike Corporation
Our Mission is to deliver the best online service that will let you manage your business easily via email and the Web anytime, anywhere.

Yahoo!
Yahoo! Inc. is an American public corporation that provides Internet services worldwide.