geospatial web hosting & development
nomad labs' hosting now provides professional geospatial web hosting for australia. this service is currently in
beta phase
why geohosting? geospatial industry is currently undergoing rapid changes in technology. nomad labs geospatial web hosting and development services are designed to help to keep our industry and business partners up-to-date. we ensure that our servers run cutting edge geospatial web technologies. if you are having difficulties keeping pace with the changes in the industry then nomad labs provides easy-entry into the domain of free and open source geospatial software.
mapsever 4.8.4 release
Mapserver 4.8.4 Updated With the release of mapserver 4.8.4 we have updated out servers with the latest version. All developers can benifit from the bug fixes. Check out the release notes here .
Posted by suadmin on Monday, 17-Jul-2006 01:14 AM
PostGIS 1.1.3 Updated
PostGIS 1.1.3 Released With the release of PostGIS 1.1.3, all nomad labs geohosting servers are now running the most up-to-date version of PostGIS. Users will automatically reap the benefits of the new features and bug fixes without the need to make changes to their databases. Besides the minor bug-fixes there are a number of new features. One of the most useful updates in the new release is the Long Transaction Support . This potentially allows developers to build geospatial applications that are collaborative in nature by keeping the database state consistant by long-term locking. Quoting the OGC WFS Specification:
"Web connections are inherently stateless. As a consequence of this, the semantics of serializable transactions are not preserved. To understand the issue, consider an update operation.
The client fetches a feature instance. The feature is then modified on the client side, and submitted back to the database via a Transaction request for update. Serializability is lost since there is nothing to guarantee that while the feature was being modified on the client side, another client did not come along and update that same feature in the database.
One way to ensure serializability is to require that access to data be done in a mutually exclusive manner; that is while one transaction accesses a data item, no other transaction can modify the same data item. This can be accomplished by using locks that control access to the data.
The purpose of the LockFeature operation is to expose a long term feature locking mechanism to ensure consistency. The lock is considered long term because network latency would make feature locks last relatively longer than native commercial database locks"
Posted by editor on Tuesday, 04-Jul-2006 05:13 AM
geohosting press release
This is a news article to show:
May 2006: launch of geospatial web hosting for Australia nomad labs has announced the release of its geospatial web hosting services that include cost effective mapping solutions based on such well tested and robust open source technologies as Mapserver, PostGIS and GDAL.
The nomad team is keen to see the most feature rich software releases running on their servers and hence keep a close eye on the new features being developed by the OS Geospatial developer community. Operationally this can give a client access to OCG standard implementations several months before a commercial vendor implements them in their products. One such example is the WCS or the upcoming Sensor Observation Service for theSensor Web implementation. The geohosting functionality offered by nomad labs can save a business 10's of thousands of dollars each year in licensing fees when compared to its closest commercial rivals.
Posted by editor on Tuesday, 30-May-2006 16:27 PM