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NEWS<br />
Mapgears and MGeospatial join forces to launch Mapgears Solutions<br />
Quebec, Canada, April 4, 2012 - Mapgears and Mgeospatial are pleased to announce the merge <strong>of</strong> their respective geospatial consulting activities<br />
into a new Mapgears division: Mapgears Solutions.<br />
"With the MapServer web mapping engine, we have played an active role in the open source revolution that took <strong>of</strong>f over the last decade in the<br />
geospatial field around the world", says Daniel Morissette, president <strong>of</strong> Mapgears. "The new Mapgears Solutions team will complement our current<br />
technology <strong>of</strong>fering with its highly specialized consulting services to assist our customers in the deployment <strong>of</strong> MapServer and related open source<br />
technologies, and to continue to revolutionize the geospatial field."<br />
"It is with great pleasure that I join the Mapgears team to take on this new challenge", added Simon Mercier, vice president <strong>of</strong> the new Mapgears<br />
Solutions division. "Mapgears was Mgeospatial's main technology partner and the merge <strong>of</strong> our activities was the next logical step to allow us to grow<br />
our teams and help sustain the growing demand for our services. Our goal with Mapgears Solutions is to present an innovative web mapping service<br />
<strong>of</strong>fering and to continue to deliver bleeding edge solutions to our clients."<br />
About Mapgears<br />
Members <strong>of</strong> Mapgears team have been active for over 12 years in the development <strong>of</strong> the MapServer web mapping engine and related open source<br />
technologies <strong>of</strong> the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). Mapgears <strong>of</strong>fers pr<strong>of</strong>essional, yet personnalized services to assist application<br />
developers and integrators who made the choice <strong>of</strong> MapServer and other OSGeo technologies such as PostGIS, GDAL/OGR, OpenLayers, GeoExt,<br />
MapFish and GeoPrisma.<br />
Mapgears counts as part <strong>of</strong> its Technology team some <strong>of</strong> the main developers <strong>of</strong> Mapserver and related open source technologies, who in turn have<br />
access to an international network <strong>of</strong> trusted partners which includes the majority <strong>of</strong> the other developers <strong>of</strong> those same s<strong>of</strong>tware packages.<br />
The new Mapgears Solutions team <strong>of</strong>fers an alternative to the traditional consulting service <strong>of</strong>fering currently available on the geospatial market. Its<br />
objective is to respond to the customer's needs with solutions and assistance services revolving around open source or even hybrid (mix <strong>of</strong> closed and<br />
open source) geosptial technologies combined with the use <strong>of</strong> agile and sustainable development methodologies which are respectful <strong>of</strong> the<br />
customer's needs.<br />
For more information<br />
Daniel Morissette, dmorissette@mapgears.com<br />
Phone: 418-696-5056 / 1-888-696-5056<br />
Simon Mercier, smercier@mapgears.com<br />
Phone : 418-559-7139<br />
Follow us on Twitter @Mapgears<br />
See also<br />
Mapgears continues its growth and launches Mapgears Solutions (Daniel Morissette's blog)<br />
Solutions Mapgears (in French on Simon Mercier's blog)<br />
Our website is being rebuilt to reflect the recent changes<br />
to Mapgears and its products and services <strong>of</strong>fering.<br />
Please come back and visit us again in a few weeks.<br />
Phone: +1 418.696.5056<br />
Toll Free: 1.888.696.5056<br />
info@mapgears.com<br />
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