Companies team up for high-tech map quest

LOVELAND – When it comes to digital images, most people are familiar with jpeg files, which can capture plenty of detail for cell-phone pictures and Facebook photos. But for pilots who need to download images quickly in order to read a 3-D map of a city – to discern military targets or ground hazards – jpeg files can come up short.

Or as Jeff Poore, president of the Loveland-based information-sciences firm, Numerica Corp., said, “They’re great for pictures, but not for flying.”

Numerica concentrates on scientific and mathematical problem solving. In a partnership with TechniGraphics, a geospatial-services company with Fort Collins offices,…