Welcome

Welcome to the Demis web site.

Besides providing some general information about Demis, the main purpose of this site is to provide product information and support, in particular for the Demis Web Map Server and related upcoming products.

In the Gallery, you will find several examples of web mapping applications and other projects we would like to show you. This is by no means a complete portfolio of our work, you can find out more about Demis in the About us section.

What's New

September 2005 - Demis WorldWind (3D world from NASA) ( NEW ! )
   

WorldWind is an exciting new 3D visualisation tool developed by NASA.

Because the structure of WorldWind is very open and it supports OpenGIS WMS servers, it was quite easy to make WorldWind display maps coming from our server.

To greatly improve performance we have gone a step further by developing a WorldWind specific connector which caches the rendered images on the server. If you have WorldWind 1.3, you can download our Add-On here

August 2005 - Demis WMS 4.12 update ( NEW ! )

In this maintenance update one new feature has been added, the ability to use your own bitmap/metafile point symbols, providing more flexibility in the styling of any map composition.

January 2005 - USA base map prototype 

Combining all the best available public domain sources, this USA base map provides coverage of the entire US down to the street level !

This data set has been compiled from US Census bureau TIGER data to provide street level vector coverage. Additionally, a digital terrain model (3 arc sec) has been derived from USGS NED to provide a consistent topographic background.

For 250 Euro, you can order  this entire data set on DVD as a complete map compilation ready for use with Demis WMS for your US based web mapping applications.

( Go to USA base map demo )

November 2004 - Directions Magazine Web Mapping Contest 

Winner: Miscellaneous Category

ReefBase: A Global Information System on Coral Reefs.

This site, which was co-developed by the ReefBase team and Demis, has won this contest, hosted by Directions Magazine and sponsored by Microsoft.

Out of 85 entries for this years contest, ReefBase GIS was selected by visitor votes to be the best entry in the Miscellaneous Category. We congratulate the ReefBase team with this award and are proud to be part of the project !

March 2004 - OpenGIS WMS certification

We are proud to announce that our Demis WMS product has been certified to be OpenGIS WMS 1.1.1 compliant after passing all the compliance tests as provided by the OpenGIS Consortium inc.

Only a selected few of all the registered products using the WMS protocol have been able to pass the strict suite of tests required to be certified as OpenGIS WMS compliant. As we were amongst the first few to adapt the WMS protocol a few years ago, we are proud to be amongst the first few companies to provide an officially certified product.

( Information about software updates, you can find here )