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

[Jeff McKenna]

Thanks for sharing this Gavin.  I think it's great news, for the
MapServer community, and for service providers that are very similar to
your company AfriSpatial.  It's so nice to be appreciated for what you
and I do everyday (speaking the good OSGeo word).

(I miss the braais already!)

-jeff



On 12-10-17 5:44 PM, Gavin Fleming wrote:
> *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/) 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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Jeff McKenna
MapServer Consulting and Training Services
http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/