Press Release: NGS announces partnership with OpenGeo

March 9, 2011

Newmoyer Geospatial Solutions is pleased to announce a partnership with OpenGeo – the global leader in open source geospatial solutions.

“This partnership strengthens and diversifies our service offerings by giving us direct access to the core developers and technical support personnel at one of the most impressive open source organizations in the world. OpenGeo’s recent release of the OpenGeo Suite has demonstrated a remarkable synergy between several highly active open source communities. We believe there is amazing potential for our government customers where total cost of ownership and open standards compliance is particularly important. We are very excited to work with OpenGeo and be part of the community that they have established.”

About OpenGeo
OpenGeo is a social enterprise working to build the best web-based geospatial technology. The company brings the best practices of open source software to geospatial organizations around the world by providing enterprises with supported, tested, and integrated open source solutions to build the Geospatial Web. OpenGeo also supports open source communities by employing key developers of PostGIS, GeoServer, and OpenLayers. Since 2002, the company has provided successful consulting services and products to clients like the World Bank, Google, the UK Ordnance Survey, Portland TriMet, MassGIS, Landgate, and the Federal Communications Commission. OpenGeo is the geospatial division of OpenPlans, a New York-based 501(c)(3) non-profit that informs and engages communities through journalism and open source software. All of OpenGeo’s revenue has been and will continue to be re-invested into innovative and useful software in support of the OpenPlans mission

About NGS
Newmoyer Geospatial Solutions is an emerging small business in the custom GIS software development services industry founded in May 2009 by Jason Newmoyer and located in Charleston, SC. Jason brings a breadth of experience to the table in the profession of software development and a network of key professional contacts in the industries of GIS software and national defense and intelligence. NGS’s mission is to contribute to the advancement of national defense by bringing cutting edge geospatial technologies into organizations to enhance the capabilities of the users on the front lines.