Lizardtech Corp (Seattle, WA) has recently announced their latest promotion... Where in the World is LizardTech? The premise... Locate the Lizard in an impressive mosaic of Paris, France and you'll have a chance to win a handheld GPS system.
This give-away is designed to showcase the power of LizardTech's geospatial
imaging products. Using GeoExpress with MrSID, a 3GB mosaic containing over 700
aerial images of the city of Paris can be compressed into a high quality 180MB
MrSID® image, then rapidly served over the Internet using Express Server 4.6.
Within the image of Paris lounges a Lizard. Send LizardTech the correct cursor
location of the Lizard for a chance to win a Garmin Geko 201 GPS (12 Channel,
WAAS) handheld GPS system.
To view the image of the city of Paris, make sure you download and auto
install the ExpressView
Browser Plug-in.
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