DM Solutions Group And Orkney Partner To Deliver Internationalized Open Source Web Mapping Solutions

New MapServer features for a global audience

Ottawa, ON, January 27, 2005 – DM Solutions Group Inc., a leading Open Source and open standards Web mapping solutions company, and Orkney Inc., a Japanese business solution provider, today announced a partnership to jointly deliver an internationalized version of MapServer. 

DM Solutions Group has worked with Orkney to enhance MapServer capabilities to an international standard and provide world-class Web mapping solutions based on Open Source GIS technologies.  Enhancements to MapServer include several new language encoding capabilities such as Thai, Japanese and Chinese.    

MapServer is an Open Source development environment for building Web mapping applications. This CGI-based application delivers online, interactive GIS and image processing information, quickly and reliably. DM Solutions Group has been the world’s largest contributor to MapServer since 2000, and is directly responsible for several key enhancements. 

Orkney, Inc., provides business and technical GIS consulting services throughout Asia.  Through this partnership with DM Solutions Group, they are the first company to provide an internationalized version of MapServer. 

“This partnership provides valuable business solutions based on Open Source GIS technologies to large enterprises with operations across countries or regions, and in multiple languages,” said Toru Mori, president and CEO of Orkney, Inc.

“With a worldwide user base of over 5000 and growing, the demand for an internationalized MapServer became obvious,” said David McIlhagga, president of DM Solutions Group Inc.  “We are excited about the global opportunities this partnership will present.”

About DM Solutions Group, Inc.
A major provider of Web and desktop mapping solutions, DM Solutions Group Inc. leads the development of Open Source mapping technology. Using its Web mapping toolkit, which includes tools like MapServer, Chameleon, and MapLab, DM Solutions Group works with organizations wanting to deploy Web mapping infrastructures that incorporate geospatial data from any server, anywhere in the world.

Founded in 1998, DM Solutions Group is headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and operates an office in Chicoutimi, Quebec, Canada. For more information visit www.dmsolutions.ca.

About Orkney, Inc.
Orkney is a business solution provider located in Yokohama, Japan that specializes in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Location Based Services (LBS) technologies. Orkney, Inc. is on the World Wide Web at http://www.orkney.co.jp/