GeoLabs

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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™
Sensor Web Enablement and OpenGIS SensorWeb™
Geo Digital Rights Management (GeoDRM) WG (GeoDRM WG)™