June 19, 2006 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) – Australian web hosting provider nomad labs (http://hosting.nomad-labs.com) has announced the launch of “geospatial and GIS web hosting services”. The services include a range of mapping solutions based on open source technologies such as Mapserver, PostGIS and GDAL. According to the company the geohosting functionality offered by nomad labs “can save a business 10's of thousands of dollars each year in licensing fees.”
nomad labs is known to take a close interest in developments by the Open Source Geospatial developer community. This involvement enables the company to provide client access to OCG standard implementations months before commercial vendors implement products. WCS and Sensor Observation Service for the Sensor Web implementation are examples of technologies that were both supported by nomad labs geohosting.
nomad labs available plans offer 5000 mb 10000 mb and 15000 mb of storage respectively alongside a number of key features. Mapscript and GDAL bindings include ruby, perl, python, and php. Educational discounts are available from the company upon request.
