Category Archives: OGC

Can Government learn interoperability from Web2.0?

By editor | Published: 2007/11/13
One of our contributers Shoaib gave a talk at an Australian Government agency. Here are his slides. Best viewed with his talk notes. embed | view on slideshare
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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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Trying out Geoserver + Googlemaps

By shoaib | Published: 2006/12/15
With a dearth of street data for Pakistan on the default mapping resource of the world (Googlemaps) I decided to try putting up some of the data I had lying around the house. Using Geoserver as a WMS layer on top of Google maps results were quite impressive. Here's Karachi and the tomb [...]
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Geo-Delivery in action

By shoaib | Published: 2006/06/18
Yes i know that looks like ArcGIS… that’s because it is. I did a screen cast of what we (Minh & myself) have manged to complete of the WCS client its far from finished. The image below is from the part where i opened the downloaded data in ArcGIS to process. Enjoy this for now, [...]
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PostGIS for the python folks

By shoaib | Published: 2006/06/13
Richard Taylor has release an update to GeoType — a python library that implements OGC Simple Features Specification and PostGIS geometry in Python. It has integration with Psycopg & python-postgresql interface. This ones for you gus ;) GeoTypes
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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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