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Written by Richard Marsden
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Monday, 08 February 2010 13:48 |
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Over the weekend, OSGeo announced that the deegree project has 'graduated' from incubation status and is now a full OSGeo project. Markus Schneider, Vice President of deegree, has been appointed as project representative. deegree is a Java Framework
offering the main building blocks for Spatial Data Infrastructures. Its
entire architecture is developed using standards of the Open Geospatial
Consortium (OGC) and ISO/TC 211 (ISO Technical Committee 211 --
Geographic Information/Geomatics). deegree encompasses OGC Web Services
as well as Clients and security components. Further information can be found on the main deegree web site.
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Written by Richard Marsden
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Monday, 25 January 2010 10:31 |
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GeoREST has just received its first major release. GeoREST is a framework based on existing open source libraries such as MapGuide and FDO that is intended to allow the publication and interaction of geospatial web resources in a RESTful manner. GeoREST is distributed under the Lesser GPL license.
GeoREST 1.0 enables the dynamic publication of KML, GeoRSS, etc; search engines to crawl you geospatial data, and web form updates to search/update your data. Further information and the latest download can be found on the GeoRest Project Pages.
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Last Updated on Monday, 25 January 2010 11:11 |
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Written by Richard Marsden
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Thursday, 21 January 2010 16:49 |
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ESRI have just announced that their ArcGIS online map services have been migrated to the web tiling scheme used by Google Maps and Bing Maps. The original tiling scheme will remain live for at least six months but there will be no further data updates. Here is the announcement text:
In response to requests from many users, ArcGIS Online map services have
been migrated to the Google Maps/Bing Maps tiling scheme in Web Mercator
Auxiliary Sphere. This enables Web developers to more easily combine
ArcGIS Online map services with other popular Web map services including
those from Bing Maps, Google Maps, and other providers using the same
Web map tiling scheme.
The existing services in the ArcGIS Online tiling scheme will remain
available for at least the next six months and, depending on demand, may
remain available longer. Although the services will remain available,
the content will no longer be updated.
For more details, see Migrating map tiling schemes in the ArcGIS Online Help.
If you have questions, please post them to our forum.
Sincerely,
The ArcGIS Online Team
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Written by Richard Marsden
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Monday, 01 February 2010 13:03 |
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Over the weekend, v1.7.0 of the popular GDAL/OGR library was released. Although technically not a geo-web product, GDAL/OGR is used by a number of popular geo-web tools such as UMN MapServer. We also used a tool from the beta of this version in our recent Polar Maps and Projections article. as well as the usual bug fixes and minor changes, GDAL/OGR 1.7 adds support for a number of less-common raster formats ( BAG, EPSILON,
Northwood/VerticalMapper, R, Rasterlite, SAGA GIS Binary, SRP
(USRP/ASRP), EarthWatch .TIL, WKT Raster ); support for a number of vector formats (DXF, GeoRSS, GTM, PCIDSK, VFK); significant improvements to existing raster & vector drivers ( GeoRaster, GeoTIFF, HFA, JPEG2000 JasPer, JPEG2000 Kakadu, NITF, CSV, KML, SQLite/SpataiLite, VRT); support for Python 3; and the new gdaldem and gdalbuildvrt utilities. Further information and downloads can be found on the OSGeo website, here.
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Written by Richard Marsden
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Friday, 22 January 2010 15:01 |
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Responses to the Haiti earthquake disaster have been dominating the geospatial news and blogs for the past ten days or so. The response has truly been a community response with the production of everything from scientific and educational maps, through to the creation of new street maps, and the analysis of daily satellite imagery. The response has been so wide that I have not been able to post individual news stories without drawing an arbitrary line as to what is newsworthy and what is not. |
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Written by Richard Marsden
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Wednesday, 20 January 2010 08:56 |
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Back in December, Microsoft released v1.0 of their Bing Maps Silverlight Control. This included Streetside views, and a beta version of their consumer-facing Bing Maps site that used Silverlight. Yesterday, Microsoft dropped the 'beta' tag, and the Silverlight Control is currently being rolled out as the default. This replaces "Bing Maps Classic" (ie.the AJAX/JavaScript control) in a gradual roll-out. Currently only a few percent of North American users will see the Silverlight Control, but this will be increased to 100% of all users. Users can opt to use "Bing Maps Classic" if they wish. In addition to Streetside, Microsoft have added Destination Maps and Local Events to the Silverlight Control. Destination Maps show a destination location with major roads, and other roads required to get there. These maps have a number of different styles including "pirate treasure map".
Chris Pendleton's announcement can be found here.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 21 January 2010 16:50 |
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