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About Edgetech America, Inc.

Since 1995, Edgetech America, Inc. has been providing high-quality, innovative Geographic Information System (GIS) solutions, including:

In 2005, Edgetech America was awarded the prestigious Esri Foundation Partner Award. The company is based in Innsbrook near Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A.

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Sept. 29, 2011 Edgetech releases MapSpeller 3.1 Build 3163 (improvements). Updating to the new add-in does NOT require Windows administrative rights.
Sept. 19, 2011 Edgetech America, Inc. exhibits at the Virginia GIS Conference in Henrico, VA (USA).
July 12-14, 2011 Edgetech America, Inc. exhibits at the Esri International User Conference in San Diego, CA. Booth #217.
June 6, 2011

Save time, expense & embarrassment!
Spell check your GIS data & maps.

MapSpeller™ 3.1 for ArcGIS 10
Available Today!
Dear ArcGIS User:
 
It is my great pleasure to inform you that MapSpeller 3.1 has been formally released for ArcMap 10.

MapSpeller checks the spelling and corrects errors in map and layout annotations, legends, scale objects, grouped graphics, and tables, including geodatabase annotation and labeling fields.

Many of the MapSpeller 3.1 improvements are architectural or qualitative, resulting in a great user experience.

So, I encourage everyone to upgrade to it, or give MapSpeller a first or second look. You can immediately download MapSpeller 3.1.3131, including a 90-day free trial, by clicking here. 

Sincerely,
Denis Roose, President
March 8, 2011 MapSpeller 3.1 Pre-Release Build 3121 becomes available.
January 24, 2011
 		 Denis Roose earns the distinction of Esri Certified Trainer. Edgetech offers both ArcGIS 9 and ArcGIS 10 classes at client-sites nationwide or at pre-determined locations in Virginia.
January 5, 2011
 		 MapSpeller 3.1 Pre-Release Build 3100 becomes available.
 Dec. 16, 2010


 Denis Roose has been awarded the CompTIA CTT+ certification. 

The CompTIA Certified Technical Trainer (CTT+) certification identifies excellent and dedicated industry instructors.

CompTIA CTT+ is an international, vendor-neutral certification that covers core instructor skills, including preparation, presentation, communication, facilitation and evaluation in both a classroom and virtual classroom environment.

October 22, 2010 With the release of ArcGIS 10, a new ESRI Certified Teaching Program (CTP) is replacing the Authorized Teaching Program (ATP) of the last 15 years. One of the CTP goals is to provide the ESRI user community professional GIS certifications for a variety of GIS disciplines.

Denis Roose of Edgetech will upgrade his ESRI authorization to a certification. ArcGIS 10 classes will become available at client sites and at prescheduled, predetermined locations in January 2011.

The ArcGIS 10 desktop class titles and topics will be identical to the ArcGIS 9.3 ones, but the ESRI support material is being updated and will promote more class interaction.
June 28, 2010 Esri releases ArcGIS 10.0
March 16, 2010

The U.S. Patents and Trademark Office issues the United States Patent No. 7,681,126 to Edgetech America, Inc. for its Method for spell-checking location-bound words within a document. The cutting-edge technology enables the ArcGIS® MapSpeller™ extension to consider the real-world location of words in maps and geodatabases when spell-checking and correcting them.

Such innovation greatly improves the error detection rate, and lowers false warnings, of location-bound words such as the names of places or streets, names in foreign languages, or any other word whose spelling varies geographically such as "color" versus "colour". It also enables the detection of mislabeled features and text positioning errors.

March 9, 2010
Edgetech America, Inc. Releases MapSpeller™ 3.0 for ArcGIS®
 
Edgetech America, Inc. has released the third major version of its novel GIS spell-checker. With MapSpeller 3.0, ArcGIS users can now spell check and correct typographic errors in databases (including annotation and labeling fields), in addition to map and layout annotations, legends, grouped graphics and scale objects. MapSpeller 3.0 is fully integrated with ArcGIS and is an ArcGIS 9.3.1.SP1 extension.
Feb. 17-18, 2010 Edgetech presents MapSpeller 3.0 at the 2010 Esri Federal User Conference (FedUC) in Washington, DC (booth 101).
June 10, 2009 Edgetech releases MapSpeller™ 2.1 for ArcGIS®. For a description of the new features, please visit the MapSpeller Help System.
April 11, 2009 Edgetech releases MapSpeller™ 2.0 for ArcGIS®. For a description of the new 2.0 features, please visit the MapSpeller Help System.

July 2008

 Edgetech releases MapSpeller 1.5.1663 (named 9.3.1663 at the time) which is an upgrade for the ArcMap 9.3 extension. MapSpeller 1.5 is compatible with ArcGIS Desktop 9.2 and 9.3 running on Windows XP, XP Server 2003 and 2008, and Vista 32-, and 64-, bit.
April 2008 Edgetech America, Inc. has been awarded a contract by the County of Henrico, VA to teach a variety of client-site GIS classes to its staff. The contract is initially for one year. It is renewable for four additional years.
March 2008 VDOT optimizes its training investment by taking advantage of Edgetech's new training bundles to register its staff to a variety of ArcGIS classes across Virginia. VDOT is thereby benefiting from volume pricing, personalized instruction and minimizing its travel expenses.
October 23, 2007 Training News
  1. Esri to Structure the Introduction to ArcGIS I & II Classes Differently
  2. Introducing Edgetech's Training Registration Credits
June 11, 2007 Edgetech America, Inc. Releases MapSpeller™ for ArcGIS®
 
March 19, 2007 Edgetech demonstrates MapSpeller for ArcGIS at the booth #606 in the EXPO area of the 2007 Esri Worldwide Business Partner Conference in Palm Springs, CA.
January 2007
Edgetech America, Inc. is pleased to announce that it has filed for a U.S. patent for, and reserved international filling rights to, a GIS map spell checking and correction system.
May 2005 Esri ranks Mr. Denis Roose Top Esri Authorized Instructor in the USA for the fourth quarter 2004.
February 2005 Edgetech receives the 2005 Esri Foundation Partner Award.

"This award recognizes the partner who, through hard work and dedication, has consistently built a very strong, dependable relationship with Esri.  This partner is one of the foundation blocks on which Esri's strong Business Partner Program is built."

Denis Roose (left) & Jack Dangermond (right), founders of Edgetech America, Inc. and ESRI, Inc., respectively
Denis Roose (left) and Jack Dangermond (right),
founders of Edgetech America, Inc. and Esri respectively. Esri is the GIS world leader.
Sept. 2004 Edgetech now offers a new 1-day course developed in-house: ArcGIS 9.0 Latest Developments.
Q2 2004 Denis Roose is ranked Top 2 Esri Authorized Instructor nationwide in term of number of trainees instructed. Classes were held as far as Alaska.
May 2004 Esri releases ArcGIS 9.0.
Feb. 2003 Esri releases ArcGIS 8.3.
Edgetech is authorized to resell the new Survey Analyst and Tracking Analyst extension to ArcGIS.
August 2002 Edgetech delivers phase 1 of a web-based room management system for a major client (800 buildings, 34,000 rooms). The project ties the ArcIMS GIS map server with a SQL Server database and IIS web server to deliver thematic floor plan maps dynamically to thin HTML/JavaScript clients.  This involves programming in ASP, SQL, HTML and JavaScript.
December 2001 Edgetech teaches its first three-day Esri Introduction to ArcGIS II (for ArcView, ArcEditor and ArcInfo) course.
November 2001 Edgetech teaches its first two-day Esri Migrating to ArcView 8 course.
October 2001 Edgetech teaches its first two-day Esri Introduction to ArcGIS I (for ArcView, ArcEditor and ArcInfo) course.
May 2001 Esri releases ArcView 8.1, the ArcGIS version of the leading GIS software.
February - April 2001 Edgetech develops the Virginia's official redistricting web site. The site includes an interactive mapping component driven by the ArcIMS software.
December 2000

Edgetech's Mastering ArcView GIS training manual and exercise CD is now available for self-teaching.

Edgetech 2001 off-site training schedule is now available.

October - November 2000 Edgetech reveals its new corporate image at the Virginia GIS Conference and on the Web.
June 2000 Edgetech becomes authorized to resell Esri's ArcIMS and RouteMAP IMS.
April 2000 Our GIS courses are some of the best rated in the country.  Nine out of ten trainees have consistently rated them "Excellent" or "Very Good".  Here is what one of our April student wrote on his course evaluation form:

"The course was one of the best I have ever attended. I was concerned at first (before the course started) we would merely walk through the manual. The background and tangential information that was provided was great. Finally, Mr. Roose has a wonderful, warm and helpful style of teaching. He easily walked us through some very technical territory, avoiding landmines along the way."
March 2000 Edgetech successfully completes several GIS projects for the insurance, telecommunication and utility industries.
October 1999 Edgetech has started offering two new courses developed in-house:
  1. Advanced ArcView Topics (1 day)
  2. Mastering ArcView GIS (3 days)
June 1999
Edgetech develops an easy-to-use ArcView interface that enables employees at the Bureau of Transportation Statistics to quickly create and print cartographic-quality maps for the U.S. Secretary of Transportation and others.
May 1999

ArcView Irth Theme Loader

 Edgetech develops the ArcView Irth™ Theme Loader extension for AGT International, the American leader in "Call Before You Dig" utility software.  This extension loads GDT Dynamap 2000 files into ArcView, transparently sets the themes' display properties (colors and fonts, display and labeling scale thresholds, etc.) and automatically labels the themes within their appropriate labeling scale thresholds.  Labels are automatically refreshed when users pan or zoom the map.   The extension is easily customizable to respond to customer needs.
April 1999

QuicNet for Norfolk

 Edgetech develops an ArcView front-end for the City of Norfolk, VA's real-time traffic monitoring system under contract with Bi Tran Systems, Inc.  Fiber optic cables connect the city's traffic light and their controllers to this centralized monitoring system.  The QuicNet™ ArcView interface offers several views, from a city-wide perspective of the traffic situation to a detailed, intersection-by-intersection view (see screen snapshot to the left).   Live intersection information is also displayed within those views (lower right corner of illustration).
February 1999

 

 Esri publishes Edgetech's article on siting a national data center facility in the Winter 1999 issue of ArcNews.  ArcNews has a worldwide readership of more than 200,000.  Click here for an extended version of the article.
Sept. 1998 Edgetech America relocates to the Richmond, Virginia metropolitan area.
Mr. Roose presents "Siting a National Data Center Facility Using ArcView GIS" at the 1998 Virginia GIS Conference.
June 1998 Mr. Roose is elected President of VAMLIS, the Virginia Association for Mapping and Land Information Systems.
April 1997 Edgetech announces EDgeMaker for ArcView GIS to help economic developers market their territory as a place for business.
August 1995 Edgetech America incorporates in Virginia, USA.
April 1995 Edgetech America is founded to help private and public organizations benefit from the Geographic Information System (GIS) technology.

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