Thanks for sharing.<br><br>I hope to see more "news bulletins" like this in the future. Its create using this as reference when dealing with clients.<br><br><br><br clear="all">Sarel Coetzer <br><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Jean Paul Ngalams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jpngalams@gmail.com" target="_blank">jpngalams@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Thanks<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:44 PM, Gavin Fleming <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gavinjfleming@gmail.com" target="_blank">gavinjfleming@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
*NASA World Wind Server to Leverage MapServer Open Source Engine*<br>
<br>
Moffett Field, CA. 16 October 2012<br>
<br>
The NASA World Wind project team has selected the MapServer Open Source<br>
mapping engine to serve its many digital raster formats to World Wind<br>
clients. MapServer will serve images and raw data through the Internet<br>
by various Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards. Providing large<br>
amounts of spatial data (including world-wide coverage of digital<br>
elevation models, DEMs, and aerial imagery) to World Wind clients<br>
requires a high performance architecture that will now use the MapServer<br>
engine, caching of images, and load-balanced servers. Technical<br>
expertise for MapServer will be provided by Mapgears (Chicoutimi, QC)<br>
and Gateway Geomatics (Lunenburg, NS). Due to MapServer compliance with<br>
OGC standards and World Wind Server standards, except for possibly the<br>
increased performance provided by MapServer, this transition will be<br>
entirely transparent to the World Wind user community.<br>
<br>
“MapServer will allow the NASA World Wind a smooth transition to a<br>
mature Open Source engine,” said Patrick Hogan, the NASA Project Manager<br>
of World Wind.<br>
<br>
Daniel Morissette, President of Mapgears, added “We are thrilled to have<br>
this opportunity to work with the NASA World Wind team to help push the<br>
limits of the technology and to contribute with MapServer to the next<br>
generation of NASA World Wind Servers that will deliver the data of<br>
organizations around the world for years to come.”<br>
<br>
<br>
Jeff McKenna, Director of Gateway Geomatics, said “Our long-time focus<br>
on assisting organizations publish their spatial data through MapServer,<br>
especially on the Windows platform, adds a key piece of an innovative<br>
solution with the Mapgears team. Together we will help to allow the<br>
World Wind community to visualize and analyze large amounts of data<br>
efficiently through MapServer.” Jeff also believes that this project<br>
will help both the MapServer and World Wind communities grow.<br>
<br>
About NASA World Wind<br>
---------------------<br>
<br>
NASA World Wind (<a href="http://goworldwind.org/" target="_blank">http://goworldwind.org/</a>) is a three-dimensional<br>
geographic information system developed by the National Aeronautics &<br>
Space Administration (NASA), its partners, and the Open Source<br>
community. The World Wind client is an interactive 3D geographic<br>
visualization system, where Earth and other planets can be explored in<br>
their full 3D native context. World Wind was released as Open Source in<br>
August 2004, and is being extensively used by corporations and<br>
government agencies throughout the world.<br>
<br>
About Mapgears<br>
--------------<br>
<br>
Members of Mapgears' (<a href="http://www.mapgears.com/" target="_blank">http://www.mapgears.com/</a>) team have been active<br>
for over a decade in the development of the MapServer Web mapping engine<br>
and related open source technologies of the Open Source Geospatial<br>
Foundation (OSGeo). Mapgears offers professional, yet personalized<br>
services to assist application developers and integrators who made the<br>
choice of MapServer and other OSGeo technologies such as PostGIS,<br>
GDAL/OGR, OpenLayers, GeoExt and GeoPrisma.<br>
<br>
About Gateway Geomatics<br>
-----------------------<br>
<br>
Gateway Geomatics (<a href="http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/" target="_blank">http://www.gatewaygeomatics.<u></u>com/</a>) is an innovative<br>
company on the East coast of Canada, assisting organizations publish<br>
their spatial information openly, through MapServer. With the hugely<br>
popular MapServer for Windows (MS4W) suite, developed and maintained by<br>
Gateway, organizations of all sizes can quickly share their spatial<br>
information on their own servers. The director of Gateway Geomatics,<br>
Jeff McKenna, also focuses on the user-side of Web mapping, and offers<br>
hands-on training with the MapServer project all around the world.<br>
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