This year’s conference theme—No Barriers: Connected. Responsive. Prepared.—will be staged in a simulated situation in which the 2012 Olympics, instead of being held in London as planned, are in fact held in Tampa, Florida.
eSpatial, along with other leading vendors (Applied Science Associates, Autodesk, Inc., Bentley Systems, Inc., ESRI, IONIC Enterprise, Inc., Intergraph Corporation, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc., Oracle, Safe Software, Inc., TELUS Geomatics) as well as Tampa officials will cooperate to bring together the required spatial information needed for smooth and secure Olympic Games using live, online open services. The interoperability during the demonstration will be completely real, and the latest technology will be used to present data provided by Tampa officials. Integrated data, products, solutions, and services from the participating companies will show how standards-based, commercial off-the-shelf geospatial software, data, and services can remove the data sharing barriers in the geospatial community.

As part of the demonstration eSpatial’s iSMART Server, which is remotely situated, is used to demonstrate a number of key features including:
· the consumption of OGC Web Mapping Services from a number of external sources;
· digitizing new data to illustrate road closures and areas or impact;
· carry our spatial analysis of impacted infrastructure assets;
· on-the-fly creation of new maps to make analysis results and updated data available to external systems via Web Mapping and Web Feature services.

All this is carried out remotely using a standard web browser.

”It’s great that leading vendors such as eSpatial can contribute to show that true interoperability is possible”, said Conference Chair Greg Buehler, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc., “Removing barriers in the geospatial community can turn tedious processes that now take days to complete into simple and seamless tasks that take a fraction of the time.”

“eSpatial is proud to be an active participant in this interoperability demonstration”, said Eamon Walsh, eSpatial CTO. “The combined story illustrates how the world of geospatial systems is rapidly moving to use standardisation as the means to deliver integrated business solutions”.

For more information on the Interoperability demonstration, visit www.gita.org/opening.html.

About eSpatial

eSpatial, founded in Dublin, Ireland and with offices in the USA, is a world leader in enterprise strength spatial information management technology. Its advanced spatial environment, iSMART, in conjunction with Oracle Spatial, provides a platform for highly scalable and secure spatially enabled applications in a standard enterprise IT environment with unprecedented ease of use, manageability and support for OGC Web Services. Its standards based Rapid Application Development environment and GeoPortal allows organizations to quickly and easily build new applications (or extend existing ones) to include spatial functionality. These applications provide spatial intelligence to anyone, anywhere, on any device, connected or disconnected. eSpatial's technology is used in every area of IT including Public Sector, Defense, Telecommunications and Utility organizations.

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