[DMSG-Newsletter] DM Solutions Group's Quarterly Newsletter - Spring 2004
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<strong>April 2004<br>
Vol. 2 ed. 1</strong></span><br>
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<p><a name="intro"></a>2004 has introduced many new and exciting changes to DM Solutions Group. Since our last newsletter, we’ve started to offer training courses; continued to develop MapServer, Chameleon, and MapLab; launched several new projects including some that give back to our community; and moved into a new office! In addition to all this activity, the company has been growing thanks to our recent baby boom. Congratulations to all the new parents and their families.</p>
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<h6><strong><a name="office"></a>DM Solutions Group moves into a new and bigger office</strong></h6>
<p>DM Solutions Group moved into a new and larger office on Tuesday, January 20, 2004. Our office is now located at 30 Rosemount in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Please stay tuned for news about an open house at our new premises in the near future.</p>
<p>For your records, please note DM Solutions Group’s new Ottawa address:</p>
<p>Suite 200, 30 Rosemount Avenue<br>
Ottawa, Ontario<br>
K1Y 1P4</p>
<p>Our phone and fax numbers remain the same.</p>
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<h6><strong><a name="osgis"></a>DM Solutions is the title sponsor for the Open Source GIS Conference 2004 and Second Annual MapServer User Meeting</strong></h6>
<p>DM Solutions Group is proud to be the title sponsor for the Open Source GIS Conference 2004 and the Second Annual MapServer User Meeting. The event will take place at Carleton University in Ottawa from June 9 to June 11, 2004.</p>
<p>DM Solutions Group will have a strong presence at this event. We’re sponsoring the conference, we’re on the organizing committee, and we’re delivering numerous presentations and workshops. Come see us at our booth at the conference exhibition hall.</p>
<p>The last day for early bird registration is Friday, April 30, so sign up now. For more information, please visit the conference website [<a href="http://www.omsug.ca/osgis2004/">click here</a>].</p>
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<h6><strong><a name="projects"></a>Key projects for DM Solutions Group</strong></h6>
<p><strong>Prototype Integrated Ocean Observation System (IOOS) for the U.S. oceanographic community—sponsored by the Southeastern University Research Association (SURA)</strong></p>
<p>DM Solutions Group was awarded a contract with SURA to support the U.S. oceanographic community’s implementation of a distributed model of data sharing based on OGC specifications. To date, DM Solutions’ staff has assisted a number of individual stakeholders to publish data to the OGC standards. Staff members have also developed a real-time Chameleon application that shows up-to-the-hour sea surface temperatures and wind speeds from providers across America.</p>
<p>You can see an initial demonstration of this application [<a href="http://www.openioos.org">click here</a>].</p>
<p>SURA is also funding DM Solutions Group to significantly enhance MapServer. These enhancements include raster queries, temporal support, and remote classification of imagery data. Thanks to SURA, these enhancements will benefit the oceanographic community and the broader MapServer community alike.</p>
<p><strong>DM Solutions expanding work with community groups</strong></p>
<p>As part of DM Solutions Group’s commitment to enable local communities through open source technologies, the company recently started to work with community groups in the Ottawa area.</p>
<p>For instance, this winter, DM Solutions partnered with the Centre for Sustainable Watersheds to develop the Watersheds InfoXchange (WIX). This GIS web-enabled platform will allow community groups to enter and manage monitoring data remotely via the Internet and view the data relative to data from other stakeholders in their watershed.</p>
<p>For more information on WIX, please visit the project website [<a href="http://www.watersheds.ca/exchange.php">click here</a>].</p>
<p>DM Solutions Group also began working with the La Peche GIS Society to develop local capacity to manage its GIS assets in the community of Wakefield, Quebec.</p>
<p>For information on the La Peche GIS Society, please visit the website [<a href="http://o-zone.ca/gissociety/">click here</a>].</p>
<p><strong>DM Solutions technology helps Environment Canada develop the Canadian Information System for the Environment</strong></p>
<p>DM Solutions Group has also worked with Environment Canada to further develop the Canadian Information System for the Environment (CISE). Environment Canada funded DM Solutions to implement direct support for database point data in MapServer, enabling numerous datasets to be published to Open GIS Consortium standards without converting this data to traditional GIS formats. This achievement has resulted in users quickly adopting the data-sharing standards within CISE.</p>
<p>DM Solutions Group has also been working with Environment Canada to develop a number of web applications to view the datasets published to these specifications.</p>
<p>These key improvements to MapServer will be available to the community in the next release of MapServer, which is expected in the coming weeks. Thank you Environment Canada for your contribution!</p>
<p>For more information on CISE, [<a href="http://www.cise-scie.ca">click here</a>].</p>
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<h6><strong><a name="products"></a>Open source product news</strong></h6>
<p><strong>MapServer 4.2</strong></p>
<p>A beta release of MapServer is currently available, and a full release is expected soon. DM Solutions Group has enhanced the software substantially. Improvements include:</p>
<p>Support for new OGC specifications: styled layer descriptors (SLD) and filter encoding (with support from GeoConnections and partners)<br>
Raster queries, 24-bit image classification, and raster SLDs (with support from SURA)<br>
On-the-fly point mapping from non-spatial data formats (with support from Environment Canada)</p>
<p>For information on DM Solutions Group’s involvement with the MapServer project, please go to http://www.dmsolutions.ca/techserv/mapserver.html.</p>
<p><strong>Chameleon 1.99 (technology release)</strong></p>
<p>Chameleon 1.99 is scheduled for release in time for the Second Annual MapServer User Meeting and OSGIS 2004 in June. We’ve significantly changed Chameleon’s architecture since the initial version, optimizing product performance and stability. The many new features include widget packages to simplify Chameleon’s administration and improved documentation. Based on MapServer and PHP technology, Chameleon reduces the technical skills and time required to create highly customizable web-based mapping applications.</p>
<p>For more information on Chameleon, [<a href="http://www.dmsolutions.ca/techserv/chameleon.html">click here</a>] <br>
or visit the project home on MapTools [<a href="http://www.maptools.org/chameleon/index.phtml">click here</a>].</p></td>
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<strong>»</strong> <a href="#intro">Introduction</a><br>
<strong>»</strong> <a href="#office">Head-Office Move</a><br>
<strong>»</strong> <a href="#osgis">MUM 2 & OSGIS 2004</a><br>
<strong>»</strong> <a href="#projects">Key Projects</a><br>
<strong>»</strong> <a href="#products">Open Source Product News</a><br>
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<td><h5><a name="events"></a>Upcoming Events</h5>
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<p class="sidestory"><strong>OOS Tech 2004 Workshop</strong><br>
May 10, 11 2004<br>
Georgetown University Conference Center<br>
Washington, DC</p>
<p class="sidestory"><strong>Ottawa MapServer User Group Meeting</strong><br>
May 2004<br>
Location: To Be Determined</p>
<p class="sidestory"><em>Anyone interested in MapServer
technology is welcome to come out for an informal
discussion and to meet some MapServer users within
the Ottawa-Gatineau region.</em></p>
<p class="sidestory"> <strong>Open Source GIS Conference 2004 and MapServer User Meeting</strong><br>
June 9-11, 2004<br>
Carleton University<br>
Ottawa, Canada</p>
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<p class="sidestory"><strong>Headquarters</strong>:<br>
30 Rosemount Ave, Suite 200<br>
Ottawa, Ontario K1Y 1P4<br>
Tel: 613.565.5056<br>
Fax: 613.565.0925<br>
<a href="mailto:info@dmsolutions.ca">info@dmsolutions.ca</a><br>
<a href="http://www.dmsolutions.ca" target="_blank">www.dmsolutions.ca</a></p>
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