25 1997 headquarters douglas county co united states key people todd oseth president and ceo number of employees 140 website www.intermap.com intermap technologies tsx imp is a publicly traded company headquartered in douglas county colorado 1 united states . intermap provides geospatial solutions that allow gis professionals in commercial and government organizations worldwide to build a broad range of applications . industries such as energy engineering government risk management telecommunications water resource management and automotive use intermap s nextmap 3d terrain products and geospatial services . contents 1 history 2 ifsar products 2.1 nextmap 2.2 accuterra 3 customers 4 references 5 external links history edit intermap was formed on january 31 1996 and commenced active business operations on september 1 1996 . on november 11 1996 the company acquired all of the assets comprising the image mapping services division of intera information technologies corporation iitc . many of the senior members of intermap s original management team were employees of iitc . intermap originally focused on providing 3d digital elevation maps for customers under specific contract arrangements . typically these projects specified areas to be mapped and were generally procured by governmental mapping and or defense agencies . ifsar products edit intermap collects elevation data aerially using aircraft equipped with interferometric synthetic aperture radar ifsar technology . intermap s ifsar digital elevation model dem and image products include digital surface models dsms . a topographic model of the earth s surface that includes buildings vegetation roads and natural terrain features . the key benefit of the dsm is that it provides a geometrically correct base map . digital terrain models dtms . a bare earth topographic model that has had vegetation buildings and other cultural features digitally removed enabling users to infer terrain characteristics possibly hidden in the dsm . orthorectified radar images oris a grayscale image of the earth s surface that has been corrected to remove geometric distortions accentuating topographic features far more than is possible with aerial photography . the data once processed is included in nationwide digital elevation datasets called nextmap . nextmap edit in 2002 intermap commenced its nextmap program which is focused on collecting and processing 3d digital elevation datasets for entire countries including great britain published 2003 countries in western europe 2 completed in july 2008 the united states 3 completed in june 2010 and southeast asia . in contrast to historic mapping business models in which customers pay for the completion of specific mapping projects intermap is self financing the nextmap program . the company then sells the use of its data through licensing agreements . accuterra edit in 2008 intermap launched accuterra gps maps which combines intermap s nextmap data with intermap s detailed recreation based data to creat highly accurate maps to be used on outdoor recreation gps devices . currently intermap has contracts to provide their high resolution maps and data to the magellan navigation bushnell lowrance electronics and pronounced gps product lines as well as the apple iphone . the accuterra iphone app won best iphone os 3.0 beta app at apple s design awards 2009 . the apple design awards recognize technical excellence and outstanding achievement in iphone os and mac os x development . customers edit the company has attained digital mapping contracts with companies across various industries 4 and sectors including geographic information systems gis engineering insurance risk assessment oil and gas environment communications transportation and 3d visualization markets . in 2007 microsoft 5 announced a partnership with intermap to create an enhanced version of virtual earth 3d for great britain although that 3d product was later dropped in november 2010 . 6 references edit the postal designation of englewood a city in neighboring arapahoe county is used in the company s mailing address . intermap technologies completes nextmap europe geoconnexion international . july 25 2008 intermap to map continental usa to 1 meter accuracy including elevation ; launch of nextmap usa now underway . airphoto usa . october 29 2003 . where next . geoconnexion . february march 2007 . microsoft and intermap team up web pro news posted june 2007 . http www.gearthblog.com blog archives 2010 11 bing maps is dropping their 3d vers.html external links edit company home page retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title intermap technologies & oldid 735020859 categories companies listed on the toronto stock exchangetechnology companies established in 1996 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 18 august 2016 at 05 05 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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