DeLorme

Delorme Publishing Co., Inc. is a company from Yarmouth (Maine, United States), which specializes in geographic information systems. DeLorme is the only provider offers topographical atlases for each state of the United States. The company employs 135 employees. 2000, the company had a turnover of 35 million U.S. $.

History

David DeLorme announced in 1976 his first atlas out. He was frustrated by the available maps of rural areas of Maine, especially of the Moosehead Lake region and decided to create better maps.

DeLorme then processed to produce existing road maps, maps of the county, city maps and data by federal agencies to the Maine Atlas and corresponding maps ( Gazetter ). This atlas was printed in large format in a print run of 10,000. He sold the Atlas of his car on the road. The Gazetter, the bike paths, canoe and kayak trails, museums and tourist and historical places included also sold very well. The company's headquarters is Eartha, the largest rotating globe of the Earth is. Built in 1998 Globus has a size of 12.52 meters. This corresponds to a scale of 1:1,000,000.

Products

  • Road atlas of the USA ( Street Atlas USA)
  • XMap GIS
  • Topographic maps of the entire United States (Topo USA)

In addition to the printed map series for each state ( Gazetteer ) at a scale of 1:150000, the company offers corresponding maps on CD and DVD.

Hardware

The company sells the Earthmate GPS PN -20 and PN -40, BT -20, and LT- 20th

Duplex satellite communications

The InReach developed by DeLorme is a satellite communications system that serves as a satellite transmitter and receiver can be connected to smartphones. For the determination of the position data, the units on the DeLorme PN - 60w own product (GPS handset ) can be connected or smart phones with the Android OS operating system. This makes it possible to use the individual features of your smartphone (SMS, Twitter, Facebook) outside the developed of the mobile phone networks areas. In contrast to other products on the market that allows InReach receiving respective messages. DeLorme is cooperating with the Inmarsat consortium.

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