The WALIS Forum is run in iDelve's home town of Perth, Western Australia, and iDelve traditionally has a strong presence. This year was no exception!

iDelve worked with our platinum reseller Amristar Solutions in the running of our trade exhibit at the forum. Our display focused on showing off the latest suite of applications built on our vector-based web-mapping technology, and demonstrating the latest new features, including:

1. Map mark-up and feature digitisation direct from the interactive map straight into any supported spatial database e.g. PostGIS or Microsoft SQL Server 2008
2. iDelveConnect, an advanced WFS caching methodology that allows near-live WFS data to be used with the performance of a local spatial database, without the overheads of having to re-download datasets and the risk of using outdated data. iDelveConnect is announced here.

We were also showing off applications built by Amristar using iDelve for a number of our Western Australian clients, including Landgate and the Department of Housing to name a few.

During the forum itself, we presented during two sessions: I presented a technology overview iDelveConnect - Overcoming the WFS Bottleneck, and our chairman Steve Lieblich presented a paper Challenges of protecting IP in a web mapping technology.

We also ran a give-away of a HP Mini netbook for visitors to our exhibit. Congratulations go to our winner Roger - well done!

Thanks to everyone attended both the WALIS Forum and the iDelve exhibit. See you again in 2011!