Jack Dangermond Wants You to Know about this Company (#ESRIUC)

I can say that because he personally invited 34 North to attend this year’s User Conference. The company is a successful Web development shop. Their solutions include collaborative portals for natural resource projects. Take for example, Bay-Delta Live, used to monitor the Sacremento-San Joaquim Bay Delta area, a fragile ecosystem. The site lets all the stakeholders share data, maps and comment on key issues. Feeding the sites maps are ArcGIS Server and MapServer.

34 North is working on something else. An open source platform for just about anyone to use to do the same sorts of things. Called OpenNRM it uses OpenLayers to access back end data and has its own homegrown content management, widget management and other tools (list of components). It will be available in late 2009 (website currently says Aug 31) under GPL 2, an open source license.