Japan's largest surveying and mapping company Pasco signed a partnership agreement with Leica Geosystems to further develop the fast growing market of geographic information systems (GIS). Pasco is one of the largest GIS product and services provider worldwide, so the collaboration will concentrate not only on Leica Geosystems products and technologies but also on the development of completely new solutions together with Leica and ESRI, the international provider of GIS software. Leica is based in Heerbrugg, Switzerland.