AMRISTAR WINS PRESTIGIOUS AWARD

May 15th, 2002

Amristar Solutions today won the prestigious "Excellence in Mapping Sciences" award, in the category of "Geospatial Information Systems", for their revolutionary i-delve online mapping technology. The award was presented at the 50th Anniversary Conference of the Mapping Sciences Institute, held at the Carlton Crest Hotel in Melbourne, Australia. Judged by a panel of mapping sciences professionals, the award was open to individuals, private companies, government agencies and academic institutions. "Amristar is honoured to be recognised by the professional mapping science community in this way," said Dr. Paul Williams, one of the designers of Amristar's i-delve technology. The WA Department of Minerals and Energy are previous recipients of the award.

Over two years in the making, i-delve was designed specifically to allow Internet users to interact with large collections of spatial data over typically low-bandwidth connections. Users can smoothly zoom into and out of spatial data sets, such as maps and aerial photographs, with the data even while it is being downloaded, resulting in almost no wait time. One unique feature of i-delve is its ability to complement raster data with many layers of vector data, allowing the user to manipulate and query the data as they navigate it.

Information about the Mapping Sciences Institute can be found at www.mappingsciences.org.au. Information about the Mapping Sciences Conference can be found at www.mappingsciences2002.conf.au.

Amristar is an intelligent IT innovation company. Its founders are all highly successful engineering graduates of the University of Western Australia. Amristar specialises in providing intelligent IT solutions for business, and actively pursues research and development into new proprietary technologies such as i-delve. For more information, including profiles of Amristar's founding directors, see www.amristar.com.