Category Archives: interoperability

Plotting a feed of USGS ShakeMaps

By shoaib | Published: 2010/04/26
Since Haiti I have been doing a lot of reading on disaster response and recovery. Today I needed to load a GeoRSS feed from USGS. They publish the location of earthquakes as a GeoRSS feed. They also publish a product called ShakeMaps. This is a fantastic product since it provides a map of the actual [...]
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setup a geospatial-restful API and document it for others

By shoaib | Published: 2008/05/12
UPDATE: I’ve had some criticism of the geo_scaffold code… which was really meant for my personal use. I’m tuning it up for a public release… check back in a few weeks. Introduction Following on from my last post where we created a mapping app using geo_scaffold I am going to show how to use cURL to play [...]
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There’s still hope for Australia’s spatial industry

By shoaib | Published: 2007/11/12
The ASIBA last week release a set of recommendations for the Australian government. These recommendations were based on a economic study evaluating what the spatial industry in Australia is worth. A staggering 6-12 billion dollars is the figure mentioned. But lets look at the recommendations: I quite like the aims of some of these: government [...]
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Mapserver output as KML

By shoaib | Published: 2007/09/23
Alessandro Pasotti has authored a utility to output mapserver layers as KML for display on Google Earth. This is written in PHP mapscript so will require mapscript to be installed with your standard Mapserver installation. Check it out here. Although its a useful tool, it would be nice to have kml support in mapserver (C++) out [...]
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Geospatial @ RailsConf Europe 2007

By shoaib | Published: 2007/06/28
Some great news for those interested in the convergence between Ruby/Rails and Geospatial applications. Kashif and I will be giving a tutorial at RailsConf in Berlin. There is going to be 3 hr tutorial titled Rails GIS Hacks, where we will be going through some pretty nifty stuff such as RESTful geospatial applications development. [...]
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libTiff to support BigTiff by July 2007

By shoaib | Published: 2006/12/25
Just heard that libTiff which is used in GDAL for GeoTiff support has found sponsors to implement BigTiff support. This will mean an end to the 4Gig limitation of GeoTiffs. These changes to libTiff will filter down to GDAL and a number of Open Source Geospatial packages like Mapserver. The detailed implementation plan can be [...]
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OSGIS racing ahead: Sensor Observation Service

By shoaib | Published: 2006/04/03
As I said in my last post one of the topics of discussion at the melbourne’s Mapserver users group meeting was the uptake of OGC standards by the OSS community. Here’s an example of OSS taking lead in implementing upcoming open standards: the current CVS version has has already implemented partial support for Sensor Observation [...]
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OGC Open Web Services

By shoaib | Published: 2006/03/26
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)â„¢ the upcoming standards include: Open Location Services – OpenLSâ„¢ Sensor Web Enablement and OpenGIS SensorWebâ„¢ Geo Digital Rights Management (GeoDRM) WG (GeoDRM WG)â„¢
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