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Web Interoperability Moves One Step Closer”
March 15, 2002
Laser-Scan
Cambridge, UK -- Laser-Scan successfully took part in the Open GIS Consortium (OGC) Web Services Initiative (OWS1) end of project demonstration.
The fictional storyline used to demonstrate the various Web Server specification developments was based on the co-ordination of an emergency response to the events that happened in New York on the September 11th.
Road and building data was served up via Laser-Scan's Web Map and Web Feature servers and were used at a number of points during the two-hour demonstration; from the initial 'discovery' role, (to find out what data was available on the Web) to the construction of map composites and analyses.
Laser-Scan's client was used in the 'Integrated Analyses' section of the demonstration.It displayed a combination of data from Cubewerx (Ortho photo), from Laser-Scan's database (New York base data: buildings and roads) and from ESRI (digitised plume data resulting from the collapse of the twin towers of the World Trade Centre).Extensions to the Transaction Web Feature Server were used to extend the schema, allowing the creation of a new emergency class in which example objects were digitised.These objects could then be viewed and used in other vendors' clients.Laser-Scan was the only participant to show this schema extension!
Laser-Scan Managing Director Dr Michael Sanderson commented:
"This is a great step forward for interoperability throughout the industry and has huge implications in the field of disaster management.Laser-Scan has, once again, proved the capabilities of its technology.We're looking forward to working closely with the OGC on future projects to further progress interoperability."
OWS1 followed closely on the heels of the Military Pilot Project (MPP1), which concluded two weeks earlier.Both projects were operated along similar lines to other OGC Web Mapping Testbeds, with aims to improve the mapping/edit/query functionality available through common (Open) commands and syntax.
In particular, MPP1 required the development of Laser-Scan's Web Feature Server to include Transaction and Schema extension capabilities, while OWS1 entailed the implementation of Web Services Description Language (WSDL). Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) provides directories and description of on-line services for electronic business.
About Laser-Scan
Laser-Scan is an international industry leader in the geospatial market delivering highly efficient production flowlines for land, sea and air worldwide.Laser-Scan provides the technology that has underpinned high profile projects for customers such as Ordnance Survey for over 25 years. The same technology helped to create the world's first turn-by-turn navigation service to a mobile phone.
ABOUT CUBEWERX INC.
Founded in 1996, CubeWerx has been developing standard-based off the shelf software products (SCOTS) in response to Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) requirements for interoperable information infrastructures. CubeWerx is an innovative software company whose expertise includes development, marketing and selling of Web Services and Spatial Warehousing software products. These products and other location-based software product components support the most demanding requirements for the integration, access, and management of very large volumes of Spatial Data over the web. CubeWerx products such as CubeXPLOR, CubeSERV and CubeSTOR were developed using open and interoperable specifications from the Open GIS Consortium. These products allow organizations responsible for Geospatial data to respond to their most demanding client requirements and offer them on-line Web services in a multi-vendor products environment. More information on CubeWerx is available on the Internet at www.cubewerx.com.
For more information please contact:
Edric Keighan (CubeWerx)
Tel.: (819) 771-8303 x207
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