The winners of the MundoGEO Award # Connect 2012

The winners of the MundoGEO Award # Connect, 2012 edition, were announced on Tuesday during the MundoGEO # Connect LatinAmerica 2012 event. The award was attended by several companies that came to honor the finalists. Although it is an X-ray of the Brazilian market, it is an interesting exercise if we consider that this is the development pole in the southern cone in geospatial matters.

Let's see who won the trophies in each category.

Software for GIS and Cartography

Here are the most remembered international brands, many things are not surprising, although it is interesting as Spring appears as the most remembered free GIS software, which shows how Brazil has managed to position itself a lot.

• MOST REMEMBERED INTERNATIONAL TRADEMARK MARK
  ArcGIS - Esri
• INTERNATIONAL TRADEMARK SIG FREE
  Spring
• BEST SOFTWARE GIS DISTRIBUTOR COMPANY
  Sisgraph
• BEST SOFTWARE DISTRIBUTOR COMPANY FOR IMAGE PROCESSING
  Santiago & Cintra Consultoria

Mapping

A great credit to Erdas, from whom we hope Intergraph will further integrate, which adds Leica and of course the company behind this in Brazil (Santiago & Cintra). The positioning of Google for location-based services is interesting and how the Internet figures in the field of cartography with greater integration.

• MOST RECENT INTERNATIONAL BRAND IMAGE PROCESSING
  Erdas Imagine - Erdas
• MOST RECENT INTERNATIONAL BRAND SATELLITE IMAGES
  DigitalGlobe
• BEST DISTRIBUTOR OF SATELLITE IMAGES
  Santiago & Cintra Consultoria
• BEST MAPPING COMPANY
  Engemap
• BEST LOCATION-BASED SERVICES COMPANY (LBS)
  Google
• BEST SOLUTIONS DEVELOPING COMPANY
  Image
• BEST JUNIOR GEO COMPANY
  Geoplan Jr - Unesp Rio Claro

Surveying equipment

Here the two large are distributed, on the one hand Leica the great of Europe takes the merit in total stations, while Trimble is a transnational with a greater aggressiveness in the American style is better positioned in GPS and geodetic equipment.

• TOTAL STATIONS
  Leica Geosystems
• GPS TOPOGRAPHIC AND GEODETIC
  Trimble
• BEST COMPANY DISTRIBUTOR OF GEODESIA AND TOPOGRAPHY EQUIPMENT
  Santiago & Cintra Geo-technologies

Institutions

• BEST INSTITUTION OF TEACHING AND RESEARCH
  National Institute of Space Research (Inpe)
• HIGHLIGHTED PUBLIC INSTITUTION
  Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE)

Social Media

Our special recognition to our friend Anderson Medeiros who has been named Twitter user of the year. Before we had Recommended this Twitter account, Now it is confirmed why we mentioned it on the front page.

• COMPANY WITH BETTER PRESENCE IN SOCIAL NETWORKS
  Alezi Teodolini
• BEST GROUP IN SOCIAL NETWORKS
  Cartography and Surveying - LinkedIn
• BEST GEO TWITTER
  @clickgeo

Featured Professionals

• BEST PROFESSIONAL MARKETING
  Rafael Guandalini - Alezi Teodolini
• PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR OF THE GEOTECHNOLOGY SECTOR
  João F. Galera Monico - Unesp Presidente Prudente

Another highlight of the ceremony was the presence of the director of the National Institute of Space Research (Inpe), Gilberto Cámara. See photos of the awards and full event coverage on MundoGEO Facebook.

In summary, an interesting event, which we would like to reflect the behavior of the other countries of the southern cone where the panorama changes a lot. Although the positioning of brands in the Portuguese market is revealing. It is also worth recognizing the effort of MundoGEO that with this second event confirms that they will be doing it on a regular basis, an action that adds to the Sustainability of the Latin American sector. Just see that the presence of the OGC, ISPRS, Gita and the dissemination of magazines such as Directions Magazine, GIM Internationalm Professional Surveyor, Geo Connexion and Vector Media make the global reach visible.

Hopefully, MundoGEO pays attention to the problem that we see for days in the routing of its distribution list, because although it is useful information, all the time it directs to a page that does not exist or parts of the site that are down. The hair in the soup that surely can be removed.