[OSGeo Africa] Fwd: [OSGeo-Discuss] News: NASA World Wind Selects MapServer as Engine

[S Coetzer]

Thanks for sharing.

I hope to see more "news bulletins" like this in the future. Its create
using this as reference when dealing with clients.



Sarel Coetzer



On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Jean Paul Ngalams <jpngalams at gmail.com>wrote:

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