The NASA World Wind project team has selected the MapServer Open Source\u00a0mapping engine to serve its many digital raster formats to World Wind\u00a0clients. MapServer will serve images and raw data through the Internet\u00a0by various Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards. Providing large\u00a0amounts of spatial data (including world-wide coverage of digital\u00a0elevation models, DEMs, and aerial imagery) to World Wind clients\u00a0requires a high performance architecture that will now use the MapServer\u00a0engine, caching of images, and load-balanced servers. Technical\u00a0expertise for MapServer will be provided by Mapgears (Chicoutimi, QC)\u00a0and Gateway Geomatics (Lunenburg, NS). Due to MapServer compliance with
\nOGC standards and World Wind Server standards, except for possibly the\u00a0increased performance provided by MapServer, this transition will be\u00a0entirely transparent to the World Wind user community.
\n\u201cMapServer will allow the NASA World Wind a smooth transition to a\u00a0mature Open Source engine,\u201d said Patrick Hogan, the NASA Project Manager\u00a0of World Wind.
\nDaniel Morissette, President of Mapgears, added \u201cWe are thrilled to have\u00a0this opportunity to work with the NASA World Wind team to help push the\u00a0limits of the technology and to contribute with MapServer to the next\u00a0generation of NASA World Wind Servers that will deliver the data of\u00a0organizations around the world for years to come.\u201d
\nJeff McKenna, Director of Gateway Geomatics, said \u201cOur long-time focus\u00a0on assisting organizations publish their spatial data through MapServer,\u00a0especially on the Windows platform, adds a key piece of an innovative\u00a0solution with the Mapgears team. Together we will help to allow the\u00a0World Wind community to visualize and analyze large amounts of data\u00a0efficiently through MapServer.\u201d Jeff also believes that this project\u00a0will help both the MapServer and World Wind communities grow.<\/p>\n
About NASA World Wind
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\nNASA World Wind (http:\/\/goworldwind.org\/) is a three-dimensional\u00a0geographic information system developed by the National Aeronautics &\u00a0Space Administration (NASA), its partners, and the Open Source
\ncommunity. The World Wind client is an interactive 3D geographic\u00a0visualization system, where Earth and other planets can be explored in\u00a0their full 3D native context. World Wind was released as Open Source in
\nAugust 2004, and is being extensively used by corporations and\u00a0government agencies throughout the world.<\/p>\n
About Mapgears
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\nMembers of Mapgears\u201d (http:\/\/www.mapgears.com\/) team have been active\u00a0for over a decade in the development of the MapServer Web mapping engine\u00a0and related open source technologies of the Open Source Geospatial\u00a0Foundation (OSGeo). Mapgears offers professional, yet personalized\u00a0services to assist application developers and integrators who made the\u00a0choice of MapServer and other OSGeo technologies such as PostGIS,\u00a0GDAL\/OGR, OpenLayers, GeoExt and GeoPrisma.<\/p>\n
About Gateway Geomatics
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\nGateway Geomatics (http:\/\/www.gatewaygeomatics.com\/) is an innovative\u00a0company on the East coast of Canada, assisting organizations publish\u00a0their spatial information openly, through MapServer. With the hugely\u00a0popular MapServer for Windows (MS4W) suite, developed and maintained by\u00a0Gateway, organizations of all sizes can quickly share their spatial\u00a0information on their own servers. The director of Gateway Geomatics,\u00a0Jeff McKenna, also focuses on the user-side of Web mapping, and offers\u00a0hands-on training with the MapServer project all around the world<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The NASA World Wind project team has selected the MapServer Open Source\u00a0mapping engine to serve its many digital raster formats to World Wind\u00a0clients. MapServer will serve images and raw data through the Internet\u00a0by various Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards. Providing … Continue reading