1spatial Share Discussion Threads

[412069] 10/1/2013 10:06

Your right Yump...we have them all.

[yump] 10/1/2013 10:04

There really aren't any shares available in quantity.

[412069] 10/1/2013 09:21

I may take up a few more of these at some point, i can only see positives here now.

[yump] 10/1/2013 09:20

Anyone fancy a fresh thread, so stuff can be put in the header ?
LUFC5 not posting as far as I can see.

1Spatial is not exactly new to AIM now either.

[yump] 10/1/2013 09:17

This explains the US impetus:

In 2012, the Obama administration announced the Big Data Research and Development Initiative, which explored how big data could be used to address important problems facing the government.[28] The initiative was composed of 84 different big data programs spread across six departments.[29]

[yump] 10/1/2013 09:14

Nice.

Laser Scan were integrated with 1Spatial back in 2002 (whole lot was called Laser Scan), with LS being hardware and 1Spatial software. LS Ltd was bought out by management 2002 and I assume they got on a boat at some point to the US.

[iroquoi] 10/1/2013 09:07

Why no RNS released ?

[412069] 10/1/2013 09:02

More info on the contract win... it shows the contract will last at least 7 years...

1Spatial & LSI Partnership Awarded Important U.S. Census Bureau Contract

1Spatial Software To Be Used in USA 2020 Decennial Census.

1Spatial, a geospatial company which manages the world's largest spatial data and its US partner, LSI, has signed a contract to supply the U.S. Census Bureau with licenses and associated services in preparations for supporting their Geographic Support System.

Through a long term engagement with the U.S. Census Bureau, 1Spatial and LSI have developed and designed an automated conflation process to bring together geospatial data from varied sources. 1Spatial's agile approach to software development will enable the Census team to gain valuable iterative operational experience and work out efficiencies as the system develops.

The 1Spatial software is enterprise enabled for maximum efficiency and is scalable to provide high performance, whilst maintaining flexibility. It has been designed to protect investment by enabling operators to capture data within a spatial rules engine and apply the knowledge gleaned consistently throughout the organisation.

"This is a large, complex and mission critical spatial database that is growing at 10-15% annually," explained Tim Trainor, Geography Division Chief, U.S. Census Bureau. "There are huge demands from the user community for spatial and temporal accuracy and quality, together with stringent processing deadlines.

We believe that 1Spatial and LSI's solution will meet our expectations in contributing to an agile, Service Orientated Architecture".

"We are delighted that the U.S. Census Bureau has seen the enormous value and benefits our solution can provide. The services provided by LSI and ourselves will enable the U.S. Census Bureau to gain maximum benefit and returns on its investment," Marcus Hanke, CEO 1Spatial. "Drawing on proven ability to support National Mapping and Charting Agencies data management tasks, 1Spatial and LSI's specialist consultancy and support teams will provide a real-world understanding of the challenges and opportunities faced when managing this level of spatial big data."

"We have worked with 1Spatial on what we believe is a truly versatile solution that will provide the client with the virtualisation and flexibility they require and we look forward to moving forward with the project," commented Mary Brauer-Cox, President of LSI.

The software and services will be utilised by the Geography Division as part of a new initiative in preparation for the 2020 Decennial Census. The Geography Division maintains the geographic base data upon which U.S. censuses and surveys are tabulated.

The Geographic Support System (GSS) Initiative is an integrated program of improved address coverage, continual spatial feature updates and enhanced assessment and measurement, which supports a targeted approach. The Address Canvassing operation is one of several operations that precedes the national census in 2020.

The data from the 2020 decennial census will be used to:
determine the number of seats for the House of Representatives for each state
make decisions about the type of community services to provide
distribute more than $400 billion in Federal funds to local, state and tribal governments each year
provide Age Search information, for example for qualifying benefits.

[412069] 10/1/2013 08:59

Contract

Published: Wednesday, January 09, 2013

1Spatial Software To Be Used in USA 2020 Decennial Census.

1Spatial, a geospatial company which manages the world's largest spatial data and its US partner, LSI, has signed a contract to supply the U.S. Census Bureau with licenses and associated services in preparations for supporting their Geographic Support System.

[412069] 10/1/2013 08:49

Look at the news on the web site lads!

[yump] 10/1/2013 07:48

As often, Wikipedia has a pretty readable summary:

[tsmith2] 09/1/2013 16:54

A lot going on :)

[yump] 09/1/2013 16:36

If anyone is confused...

As I understand it, the difference between existing databases that organisations use and big data databases is this: (oversimplified).

Existing databases are relational.

So you have perhaps a customer database, an orders database, an email database, a product/stock database. Then whenever there's an order, the linking between the databases changes the entries. Once you've designed and set up the linking, its actually quite difficult to set up different links and you need some database experts to come in and spend months, hopefully not destroying the databases in the process.

Also if you want to add a new database within a business eg. details of geolocation where orders were received from mobile phones, you have to link it into the existing system.

With big data, the items of separate information are 'labelled' - kind of separate items in a massive database. Problem is, its truly massive, but it does mean that the ever increasing quantities of data can be stored, without having to force them into an existing structure of related databases.

The idea is you can then ask questions of this database in any way you want, without having to set up any special links or introducing any risk of disturbing the data.

I think ;-)

[412069] 09/1/2013 16:23

Cheers Yump, all above my head this stuff but i know a winner when i see one.

[yump] 09/1/2013 16:00

Yes, the others all seem to be the IBM's of this world.

Although the words 'big data' seem to be used quite inappropriately, especially by some 'articles', when just talking about lots of data, or the analysis of lots of data within existing databases. Which is not quite the same thing !

The way it seems to me, having worked on quite a few large databases, is that there are questions that will not even have been asked yet of a database, purely because existing databases make the answering of those questions virtually impossible.

You can imagine a retail marketing director going to the IT dept. asking a question about targeting all the people who ordered clothing with a mobile at Christmas, while they were close to one of the retail stores and the IT bloke (or woman Stan) saying "you'll just stall the database I'm afraid".

Perhaps that info. wouldn't be available anyway and nobody could use it, but you get the idea.

[412069] 09/1/2013 15:53

Cheers... im looking for say a mid size uk/us listed company thats big data through and through.
I have found a few of the big guns that offer big data as well as other skills but not interested in them.
And all this whilst trying to do my work eh.

[yump] 09/1/2013 15:48

I'm not sure its floated now - I think I mistakenly read fund raising as implying a float, which of course it doesn't. Could have just been private equity. Looks like venture funds.

Their website is well worth a good read: spacecurve.com.
Mentions mobile communications and real-time location based big data services.

They are going live April 2013.

Also mentions the key driver, which is that existing databases can cope with size and complexity of information, but not both at the same time, which is where big data comes into its own.

[412069] 09/1/2013 14:57

Yump..whatsSpacecurves (EPIC) any idea!

[yump] 09/1/2013 13:05

An recently developed joing venture offering, public sector US:

[yump] 09/1/2013 13:02

A bit about financial services and geospatial data. Reference to huge amounts of unused, but useful information being siloed in different parts of the businesses.

[yump] 09/1/2013 13:01

I've been looking for other organisations that provide geospatial big data services. There's quite a few for just spatial data, or for providing access to spatial data within existing organisations' databases, but not many for external cloud based spatial data. Which as I understand it, is the critical issue for managing the exponentially increasing amounts of data, in order to analyse it.

There's obviously the big name corporations, but not many specialists.

Here's a recent Canadian startup, but they haven't actually produced code yet:
(Corrected its not a float its funded by venture capital by the look of it).

[412069] 09/1/2013 12:42

I could post loads of these contract wins coming in for anyone it seems who can offer big data services.

[412069] 09/1/2013 12:39

Afternoon all, i am going to have to stop looking at all this BIG DATA stuff its all looking too good.....


Georgia Tech wins DARPA ADATA Research Funding
01.3.2013



A team at the Georgia Institute of Technology has received a $2.7 million award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop technology to help address the challenges of Big Data – data sets that are both massive and complex.

The contract is part of DARPA's XDATA program, a four-year research effort to develop computational techniques and open-source software tools for processing and analysing data, motivated by defence needs. Georgia Tech was selected to perform research in the area of scalable analytics and data-processing technology.

The team will focus on producing new machine-learning approaches capable of analyzing very large-scale data. Team members will also pursue development of distributed computing methods that can process data-analytics algorithms very rapidly with a variety of systems, including supercomputers, parallel-processing environments and networked, distributed computing systems.

'This award allows us to build on the foundations we've already established in large-scale data analytics and visualisation,' said Richard Fujimoto, leader of the Georgia Tech team. 'The algorithms, tools and other technologies that we develop will all be open source, to allow them to be customised to address new problems arising in defence and other applications.'

The award is part of a $200 million multi-agency federal initiative for big-data research and development. It aims to improve the ability to extract knowledge and insights from the nation's fast-growing volumes of digital data.

[412069] 08/1/2013 13:54

Hey...outsize dont you dare steal my thunder ive been saying this since they showcased there.. hope so.

[outsizeclothes.com] 08/1/2013 13:52

The question now is - Will Australia be the next contract to come in ?