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ESRI announces that after an intensive selection process its Dutch distributor, ESRI Nederland B.V., has been awarded a contract to provide the Dutch National Mapping Agency (Topografische Dienst Kadaster) with a new, ArcGIS based production environment. The choice was made after a careful evaluation of a range of functional and technical requirements. The system will be used to produce a new 1:10,000 scale topographic database (TOP10NL), which is the object-oriented successor to TOP10vector, the current database. TOP10NL will be used in the development of various geographic information system (GIS) applications and paper map production.ArcGIS software provides an optimum integrated production environment to support the capabilities necessary in producing the TOP10NL, including disconnected editing, optimized transaction modeling, and the Geodatabase Model, a sophisticated object model of intelligent features, rules, topology and relationships. This functionality matches the workflow philosophy of the Topografische Dienst Kadaster's new production environment team. The new GIS software includes: ArcEditor for creation and editing, both in the office and in the field, and ArcSDE, which manages the spatial data within the Oracle database. Says Michel Magis, vice director of the Topografische Dienst Kadaster, "We are excited about starting the new production environment for TOP10NL and expect that the ArcGIS solution will provide us with a smooth implementation. By using the open architecture of the system, we should be able to successfully combine it with the underlying Oracle 9i database system. We are especially interested in the new work flow capabilities of ArcGIS." Adds Jeroen van Winden, manager of Technology Development of ESRI Nederland, "We will closely monitor the implementation of ArcGIS as the production environment for the new object-based TOP10NL database. This is an important project because it is a basemap that will be used by many Dutch governmental and private organizations. Since we already have a good working relationship with the Topografische Dienst Kadaster, we are convinced that this implementation will run smoothly."