Revenue to Geospatial Should Exceed $15 Million Over 5 Year Period

PITTSBURGH — (BUSINESS WIRE) — October 22, 2009 — Geospatial Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB: GSPH) announced today that the Company, through its recently acquired subsidiary Utility Services and Consulting Corp. (USCC), has entered into a contract with Qwest Corporation to provide utility locating services throughout the state of New Mexico. Work on this five year unit-price contract is scheduled to begin November 20, 2009.

Utility Services and Consulting Corp. was purchased from Dennis E. Dickenson. Dennis remains as President/CEO of USCC and has opened a new office and warehouse facilities at 3404 Vista Alameda NE, Suite B in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Dennis stated, “I am excited to have joined such a “cutting-edge” infrastructure technology company as Geospatial. This contract and our new association with Geospatial will position us as a major player in the infrastructure management industry throughout New Mexico.”

Mark A. Smith, Geospatial’s CEO stated, “We intend to leverage the great opportunity we have with the addition of Dennis, Utility Services and Consulting Corp. and our new relationship with Qwest to greatly expand our presence in the Southwestern U.S.”

Mr. Smith added, “We will greatly accelerate this expansion by providing USCC with additional technologies and services to offer to their current clients, such as our Smart Probe Pipeline Mapping Technologies and our GeoUnderground Web-based GIS Portal.”

About Geospatial Holdings, Inc.

Geospatial Holdings, Inc. through its wholly-owned subsidiary Geospatial Mapping Systems, Inc., doing business as Geospatial Corporation, utilizes proprietary technologies to determine the accurate location and position of underground pipelines, conduits and other underground infrastructure data. This technology enables Geospatial to create accurate three-dimensional (3D) digital maps and models of all underground infrastructure. The Company website is www.GeospatialHoldings.com.

GeoUnderground, the company's powerful (GIS) geographic information system database enables users to view and utilize this 3D pipeline mapping information securely from any desktop, laptop or PDA such as a BlackBerry or an iPhone. GeoUnderground seamlessly integrates with all known technologies gathering above-ground geo-referenced digital information and all standard GIS databases.

Licensed users, for the first time, have available to them a suite of technologies allowing them to collect data and create highly accurate 3D maps and models of both above-ground and below-ground infrastructure and view and share this information in a secure manner with their peers and associates anywhere in the world through a conventional browser via the internet.

Geospatial provides proprietary data acquisition technologies which accurately locate and map underground and above ground infrastructure assets such as pipelines and surface features via its GeoUnderground web-based portal.

Forward-Looking Statements

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Geospatial Holdings, Inc.
Mark A. Smith, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, 724-353-3400
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