I noticed a link to High Earth Orbit on my dashboard today. Thanks for the encouragement  Andrew.

Some interesting comparisons on Google Trends:
Oracle Spatial vs. PostGIS
ArcIMS vs. Mapserver

finally some time to try out the wps. Downloaded the client tar ball from here. Then had to modify the start up file for linux — it comes as a dos batch file — quite easy change to bash.

Ran the client and there it was the shiny new menu “WPS Client” Added the 52n’s service url and was connected.

then I invoke the buffer function on the tissot shapefile. Which froze the screen for a bit but came back with impressive results

very cool! So now to write my own algorithms.

Geoserver (http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOS/Home) will hopefully add another service to it’s 2.0 release. The FROGS (http://frogs.tigris.org/) project has implemented a WPS, and is likely to join forces with geoserver. According to OGC “A WPS may offer calculations as simple as subtracting one set of spatially referenced numbers from another (e.g., determining the difference in influenza cases between two different seasons), or as complicated as a global climate change model. The data required by the WPS can be delivered across a network, or available at the server”. cool huh :)

That’s right, with the help of the Arizona State University, Google maps now supports the mars landscape. Now everyone can see the landing sites (or crash sites). Check it out: http://www.google.com/mars/. And while it is not currently supported in the Google Earth Client, check out: http://themis.asu.edu/valles_video.

Matt at PerryGeo lists his top 10 wms layers followed by an interactive mapserver client demo of the layers. Check it out here:

keeping track of what’s happening in domain of geospatial technology is the primary purpose of this blog. Ocassional side-tracking is probable. Some of the things I might be looking into are

• Application Domains
• Open Source Development
• GeoSemantics