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CubeWerx First to Release Commercial OGC Web Map Server
April 26, 2000
HULL, Quebec, - CubeWerx Inc., a leading provider of Spatial Warehouse Solutions for geospatial data infrastructures, today announced it is shipping the first commercial Web Map Server fully compliant to Open GIS Consortium Version 1.0.0 Specifications. Using standard HTTP protocols, this new technology allows users to access GeoSpatial Data from CubeWerx Spatial Warehouses and dynamically combine it, over the Web, with other GeoSpatial Data from OGC compliant Map Servers built by many other companies.
"This release of our CubeSERV™ Web Map Server, is the culmination of 12 months work within OGC where CubeWerx has played a lead role ensuring Version 1.0.0 is a truly open specification." stated Edric Keighan, President and CEO, CubeWerx Inc. "The customer is the clear winner here, who will no longer have to try to rely on one company's technology to do it all."
The Open GIS Consortium's Interoperability Initiatives now make it possible for overlays and combinations of complex and different kinds of geographic information to happen automatically over the Internet, despite differences in a vendors' geographic data storage, analysis, and display systems. OGC released Version 1.0.0 of the Interface Specification to the public on April 19.
Geospatial data includes digital map layers such as roads, lakes and political boundaries, Earth images (satellite), and database records with street addresses or other fields that indicate a physical location. Much geospatial data is currently available on the web but, until now, users must posses considerable expertise and special geographic information system (GIS) software to overlay or otherwise combine different "map layers" of the same geographic region.
CubeWerx pioneered the concept of the "cascading" Web Map Server leading to the OGC Version 1.0.0 Specification, and was the first company to successfully demonstrate the technology on September 10, 1999 during an OGC meeting at Lockheed Martin's Gaithersburg Md. facililty.
"Now, with CubeSERV™, and using nothing more than stand alone browsers such as Netscape or Internet Explorer, users can publish Spatial Data from a huge variety of Spatial Data stores whether or not the Data is within our CubeSTOR™ Spatial Warehouse," explained Mr. Keighan. "This is a tremendous benefit for customers who will be able to access the most up-to-date Spatial Data, on an as required basis. It opens up very exciting e-Business opportunities for Spatial Data Vendors", he added.
Sponsors of the Web Mapping Testbed initiative include such agencies as the U.S. Department of Defense, NASA, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Australian World Wide Web Mapping Consortium representing 24 Australian government and commercial organizations. CubeWerx industry co-participants are some 30 commercial organizations developing open standards that will allow Web users to easily find, view, overlay, and combine different thematic maps for a given region of the world.
Founded in 1996, CubeWerx Inc. is a leading provider of Spatial Warehouse Solutions that support the most demanding requirements for the integration and management of very large volumes of geospatial data. The Company's core product, CubeSTOR™, is a seamless, n-dimensional, multi-resolution Spatial Warehouse that easily integrates all Spatial Data types and can handle gigabytes to terabytes of Spatial Data. More information about CubeWerx Inc. and its products and services can be found at: www.cubewerx.com
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For more information please contact:
Edric Keighan
Tel.: (819) 771-8303
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