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Tales from Topographic Lowlands

May 8, 2015 · 4 min read · GIS Map5.nl NLExtract openstreetmap OpenTopo OSgeo ·

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As far as Open geo-data is concerned, the Netherlands goes through prosperous times: country-wide datasets for detailed topography (BRT , BGT ), buildings and addresses (BAG ), 0.5m elevation data (AHN2 ) and many more are available for download. Even 3D-versions for several of these datasets are upcoming. These and …

3D Geospatial – Open Standards – v0

Jan 29, 2015 · 12 min read · 3D 3DPS BIM Cesium COLLADA FOSS4G GeoSpatial GIS ogc OSgeo X3D ·

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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. …

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 …

OSGeo Open Source Seminar at Geospatial World Forum

Apr 17, 2012 · 2 min read · FOSS GIS OSgeo ·

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The OSGeo Foundation has been invited to provide a 4-hour Open Source Seminar at the Geospatial World Forum . This event will take place on April 25, 2012 in the RAI Amsterdam, The Netherlands . As Trailblazer (Dutch “Kwartiermaker”) for the newly formed OSGeo.nl Dutch Language Chapter I was in charge of finding …

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 …