Melbourne Mapserver User Group Meeting 0
The first meeting of Melb Mapserver UG. Details at melbourne map
Archive for March, 2006
Top 10 WMS layers 0
Matt at PerryGeo lists his top 10 wms layers followed by an interactive mapserver client demo of the layers. Check it out here:
Work March 28th 2006 0
* Coastal GIS Abstract Submission
* Install and Configure Mapbuilder
Mapserver + MS-SQL Server 0
Well eventually someone was gonna ask this. Can you connect to MS-SQL using Mapserver? Of course thanks to GDAL/OGR anything is possible. OGR’s Virtual Spatial Data can be used to connect to SQL Server database. http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_vrt.html
One can connect via OGR ODBC driver directly by creating a view with an additional WKT column from your x, y fields and add this view to the GEOMETRY_COLUMNS table in your database http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_odbc.html
Mapfiles for novices 0
For those new to creating mapfiles Tydac have a nice set of examples that won’t intimidate you HERE
Glacial Earthquakes & Global Warming 0
A research report published by Kostel and Bradet (Lamont/Harvard) shows the number of glacial earthquakes have double in number since 2002.
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/news/2006/03_23_06.htm
The study has an interesting dependency on time and location of the earthquakes. A clear case for sensor networks.
OGC Open Web Services 0
Check out some of the upcoming standards from OCG in action
http://www.opengeospatial.org/demo/ows3/
There is some more info about the test here:
OGC Web Services, Phase 3 (OWS-3)™
the upcoming standards include:
Open Location Services - OpenLS™
Bringing Vector & Raster Closer 0
This utility lets you perform spatial analysis by combining raster and vector datasets:
http://starspan.casil.ucdavis.edu/
potentially very usefull, for example, for combining hyperspectral data with land class vector data.
Grid on Tap 2
Well US taps only:
http://www.network.com/
don’t we have a free version of this somewhere?
Free & OS Software for Geoinformatics (Melbourne Users) 0
Finally got the time to start the User Group for OSGIS in Melbourne.
http://wiki.nomad-labs.dyndns.org/melbmap/published/HomePage
The next meeting is on Friday 31st but seems to me I might have to change that after the first meeting coz of ppl trying to get the heck out of the CDB early on fridays.