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Webraska Ships World's First Standards-Compliant Geospatial Platform for Location-Based Services, Fleet Management and Telematics Industries
PARIS, Dec 17, 2002 - - SmartZone Geospatial Platform 3.0 Conforms to OpenLS-Proposed Standard Drafted by the Open GIS Consortium.
Webraska, the worldwide provider of location-based services (LBS), telematics applications and enabling platforms, today announces the
launch of the new OpenLS compliant SmartZone Geospatial Platform 3.0. (SGP3.0).
The SGP3.0 has already been deployed on customer sites in Europe, North America, Brazil and Russia, and has been successfully
demonstrated at two recent Open GIS Consortium conferences in Washington DC and Nice.
"Webraska has been one of the most active members of the OpenLS team, and has made a major contribution to definition of the draft
standard", said Kurt Buehler, Vice President and CTO of the Open GIS Consortium. "While the current version of the proposed standard
provides vendors with a certain degree of flexibility, the Webraska implementation is the most comprehensive implementation to-date".
Services already running on the SGP3.0 include location-based services for colour WAP devices running on GPRS networks, GPS and
voice-enabled wireless navigation applications using Webraska's patented IbDN(R) technology, web-based mapping and routing services and
tracking solutions.
"The location-based services sector is now breaking out of its start-up phase, with major commercial deployments underway by all the major
carriers in Europe." said Barry Glick, CEO of Webraska. "Widespread adoption of the OpenLS standard by the geospatial industry will reduce
cost, hassle and risk for application developers and wireless carriers alike".
Some further functions of the SGP3.0 are:
-- The platform offers the broadest range of geospatial
functionality on the market including address matching,
geocoding, reverse-geocoding, proximity searching, mapping,
routing and zone management.
-- Country-specific address parsing algorithms capable of
handling spelling errors, incomplete addresses, abbreviations,
free-form addresses, multiple languages and "vanity suburbs"
achieve industry-leading geocoding match rates.
-- Batch geocoding and data integration tools enable rapid
integration of third-party cartographic and point-of-interest
data.
-- Highly configurable map rendering generates customisable,
information-rich, clear and aesthetically pleasing maps at
multiple zoom levels in black and white and colour for
wireless, web, PDA and PC-based applications.
-- Door-to-door, continent-wide, traffic-optimised, multi-modal
directions (by car, foot and public transport) taking into
account multiple stops or "via points", turn restrictions,
pedestrian-only streets, speed restrictions and other
navigation-related attributes.
Advanced "Directory Services" or "Proximity Search" functionality, capable of searching for and ranking nearby points-of-interest by
straight-line distance, time to destination and content-specific attributes such as SIC codes. Searches can be carried out in (LIF-compliant)
geometric shape search zones or application defined areas of interest.
More information on
www.webraska.com
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