Driven by the requirements of the UK Public Sector, eSpatial and Dotted Eyes will be delivering Confedera - a solution that will meet both internal efficiency requirements and those associated with the e-Government Interoperability Framework (e-GIF) issued by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM).

The solution will provide a seamless framework to Local Government for the publication, update and management of location based assets based on the latest OS MasterMap product sets. The framework will address the challenges of OS MasterMap loading, positional accuracy improvement, data quality, web publishing, user & data management and spatial & attribute data capture. Confedera will provide a framework for the delivery of eGMS and UK GEMINI Metadata requirements, Digital National Framework and requirements around the use and management of the Local Land & Property Gazetteer (LLPG).

Confedera will be delivered in a pure web environment based on eSpatial's iSMART GeoPortal and the Oracle Spatial/Locator platform. The integration of Dotted Eyes ResponseMX will offer rich Internet applications, whilst Laser-Scan's Radius Topology will improve data quality.

Dotted Eyes and eSpatial are already working on joint client implementations of Oracle based solutions within the UK Local Government sector.

Duncan Hill, Commercial Director, Dotted Eyes is quoted as saying "We are very excited to be working with eSpatial on this new solution. Over the past year, we have seen an upsurge in the number of our clients benefiting from storing their OS MasterMap and asset data in Oracle Spatial. Confedera will build on this momentum to deliver on the needs of our target market."

"We are very pleased to be working with Dotted Eyes to deliver an iSMART and Oracle based solution. The combination of eSpatial's iSMART platform and Dotted Eyes expertise opens up a new era for the delivery of integrated enterprise wide Geospatial applications and services to UK Public Sector" said Philip O'Doherty, CEO, eSpatial. "Authorities will be able to leverage business data, including map data, within a single Oracle environment without the need for separate systems".

Duncan Guthrie, Managing Director, Laser-Scan said, "We believe it essential to work in partnership in today's complex geospatial market place. So we were extremely pleased to collaborate with two existing Radius Topology resellers in this initiative. Laser-Scan will provide the spatial data quality component to ensure fitness for purpose for Local Government decision making."

James Brayshaw, Ordnance Survey's Director with responsibility for local government, says: "This is another prime example of an innovative solution based on OS MasterMap helping to unleash the power of geospatial information. The potential customer benefits that can be realised from OS MasterMap as the underpinning geographical framework for the nation are enormous."

See us at the "GIS for Local Government" Public Sector Forum in Woking, England on the 15th September, where eSpatial and Dotted Eyes will be exhibiting, and at the AGI 2005 conference in London from the 8th to 10th November.
ABOUT ESPATIAL

eSpatial Solutions Ltd. is driven by the vision that spatial and location information is rapidly becoming a key part of mainstream business processes "Integrated spatial information, anywhere, in any application". Our mission is to facilitate this by providing cost effective spatial technology, which can drive the development of this market. Using our iSMART product suite our specific technology objective is to create the leading open standards based platform and development tools for enterprise geospatial systems". Founded in 1997, eSpatial has headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, and Herndon, VA.
ABOUT DOTTED EYES

Dotted Eyes Ltd, founded in 1990 in Birmingham, England, specialises in digital mapping and Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Dotted Eyes provides solutions for a wide range of markets - applying geography to business relationships.

Dotted Eyes offers expertise in software development, consultancy and training - as well as supplying software and digital maps. The company is a MapInfo Premier Partner, an Ordnance Survey Platinum Partner, an Oracle Partner and the UK Distributor for Safe Software. Dotted Eyes is also a Catalist (formerly S-CAT) Prime Contractor in seven of the GIS service offerings.

More information about Dotted Eyes and eSpatial may be found on the Internet at: www.dottedeyes.com and www.espatial.com
CONTACTS

Alan Lawless

alawless@espatial.com

Phone: +353.1.870.8800

Peter Bryant

peter.bryant@dottedeyes.com

Phone: +44 (0)1527 556924
DISCLAIMER & TRADEMARKS

iSMART is a registered trademark of eSpatial Solutions Ltd. and / or its affiliates.

Confedera and ResponseMX are trademarks of Dotted Eyes Ltd. and / or its affiliates.

Oracle is a trademark of the Oracle Corporation and / or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Laser-Scan and Radius Topology are trademarks of LS 2003 Ltd. and / or its affiliates.

All other product names may be the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.