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My blog has been quiet for some time. As many of us I’ve been busy doing projects, all involving Open Source Geo (OSGeo) software. Partly development, writing software, I love it, but also more and more in “what comes next”: deploying and maintaining “the application” with all of its dependencies. For this I have been …
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Revealing: the title refers, for the younger readers, to a great 1979-hit by The Police as expanded below. To be played at the loudest possible volume. If you don’t see anything here below try the YouTube link directly: One of the main aspects that glues the OSGeo-world together are OGC-standards: WMS, WFS, WMTS, WCS …
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On sunday August 25, 2015 I provided a talk/workshop for a local knowledge network of friends and acquaintances in Amsterdam. TLDR; see gps.justobjects.nl . Originally, I would talk about “Hiking with GPS”. But as I started pondering about this subject I decided to broaden the content to include also the evolution of …
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TL;DR: see this GitHub issue for summary (Dutch but the pictures there and Figure 1 tell the story). Somewhere around 1995, building my first website, it was already quite a feat to embed images. Non-aware of image-formats I played with (animated!) GIF and JPEG. Naively image-editing I noticed that my JPEGs became …
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This is my evolving overview of 3D Geospatial Open Standards with a focus on web technology: services, HTML5, WebGL. These are notes I keep within Evernote as part of the 3D Geospatial Notebook whose public link is: https://www.evernote.com/pub/justb4ever/3d-geospatial. For sure, resources are missing, let me know. …
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This is my list of FOSS products for 3D Geospatial with a focus on web technology/WebGL and Open Standards. These are notes I keep within Evernote as part of the 3D Geospatial Notebook whose public link is: https://www.evernote.com/pub/justb4ever/3d-geospatial. This is also the first experiment to auto sync Evernote to …
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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 …
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