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Into the Weather – Part 2 – Fun with Raspberry Pi

Nov 6, 2014 · 4 min read · gdal geoserver GeoSpatial GIS OSgeo PostGIS raspberry pi SensorThings SOS SWE weather weather underground weewx wms ·

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Into the Weather – Part 2 – Fun with Raspberry Pi

This is a follow-up to “Into the Weather – Part 1 – Exploring weewx” . Sorry, still almost no geospatial content for now. To recap: I am trying to setup an infrastructure where measurements from a Davis Vantage Pro2 Weather Station are collected and exposed to web services, most notably OGC Services like WMS-Time and …

Into the Weather – Part 1 – Exploring weewx

Oct 17, 2014 · 4 min read · weather weather underground weewx ·

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Into the Weather – Part 1 – Exploring weewx

Tagging this post as “Part 1” is ambitious. Beware: there is hardly any “geo” for now. In the coming time I hope to share some technical experiences with weather stations, weather software and ultimately exposing weather data via some open geospatial standards like OGC WMS(-Time) as in example image right , WFS and in …

Moving PostGIS tables from the public schema to a new schema

Feb 1, 2013 · 2 min read · PostGIS ·

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Update 30 nov 2013: code is now as a GIST on GitHub , also with function to move single table. Update 19 feb 2014: not yet tested with PostGIS v2.0 and up, so beware (or let me know if that works)! Update 4 june 2015: _tested with PostgreSQL 9.3.4 and PostGIS v2.1: all ok!! _ Using PostgreSQL Schema’s when using …

SOTM and FOSS4G Conferences 2011 Denver

Sep 20, 2011 · 2 min read · Colorado Denver FOSS FOSS4G GeoSpatial GIS OSgeo osm SOTM ·

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What a great time it was in Denver, Colorado, USA ! Attended both the OpenStreetMap State Of The Map (OSM SOTM) and the OSGeo Free and Open Source for Geo (FOSS4G) conferences between september 9 and 16, 2011. Went hiking in between in the Rocky Mountains (State Park and Indian Peaks Wilderness ) where I saw a live …

OSGeo Code Sprint Bolsena 2010

Jul 23, 2010 · 1 min read ·

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Like in 2009 , I attended the OSGeo Code Sprint (and Hacking Event) in Bolsena, Italy during June 6-12, 2010. For one week developers from various Free and Open Source for Geospatial (often abbreviated as FOSS4G) projects get together in a monastery near Bolsena for code sprints, cross-project collaborations, …

OpenStreetMap Tiles for Dutch Projection EPSG:28992

Mar 17, 2010 · 8 min read · epgs:28992 gdal mapnik osm proj tilecache ·

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][1] -- This article documents how to generate OpenStreetMap (OSM) tiles for the Dutch RD (“Rijksdriehoeksmeting”) projection also known as EPSG:28992 . The steps described below can be used for other projections as well. I assume you are familiar with the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project. If not, there is ample …

OSGeo Hacking Event Bolsena 2009

Jun 29, 2009 · 1 min read ·

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-- Last week I attended the OSGeo Hacking event in Bolsena, Italy . For a week developers from various Free/Open Source Geo-projects (mostly OSGeo projects) get together in a monastry near Bolsena for code sprints, cross-project discussions, presentations, enjoying italian food and more fun. I have been working on …

Making a Mobile Game at Picnic 2007

Oct 3, 2007 · 1 min read ·

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-- At Picnic 07 we held 2 workshops using our WalkAndPlay mobile gamekit (based on GeoTracing ). Here participants can Create, Play and View a GPS-based locative mobile game. Below is one of the results from the Picnic Junior Workshop for highschools . You may also want to view the high resolution movie . This …

Google Maps Hacking is Fun

Sep 16, 2005 · 1 min read ·

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(The quick link for my experiments is www.geoskating.com/gmap .) Just a week ago I learned about the Google Maps JavaScript API . Surprising how easy it was to use and build upon. Especially for my GeoSkating project I needed a more flexible way to display routes and media on a map. So I started experimenting with the …

Google Maps Hacking is Fun

Sep 16, 2005 · 2 min read ·

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(The quick link for my experiments is www.geoskating.com/gmap ) Just a week ago I learned about the Google Maps JavaScript API . Surprising how easy it was to use and build upon. Especially for my GeoSkating project I needed a more flexible way to display routes and media on a map. So I started experimenting with the …