Overview of my professional life in 2021. Highlights of living and working in the Open Source Geospatial and OSGeo(.nl |.org )-world in 2021. Organized by "Theme". Like 2020, 2021 was again a "special year" in pandemic terms. How to cope? Like Paul Ramsey writes: I feel like sharing some of my …

I use Ansible already for years to provision server instances and for subsequent CI/CD. A recent example is the Geonovum OGC API Testbed . Here (selective) Docker Containers are automatically deployed on GitHub pushes using Ansible called from within a GitHub Workflows. Now investigating how Terraform could play a …

Overview of my professional life in 2020. Highlights of living and working in the Open Source Geospatial and OSGeo(.nl |.org )-world in 2020. Organized by “Theme”. Yes, 2020 was a “special year” in pandemic and political terms. So much has been written and opinions expressed, that I don’t see a need to add to more …

Overview of my professional life in 2019. Inspired by the concise bullet-point-style of Tom Kralidis’ Cheers to 2018 , on which I based my previous Cheers to 2018. Highlights of living and working in the Open Source Geospatial and OSGeo(.nl |.org )-world in 2019. Organized by “Theme” i.s.o. by month. TL;DR. My 2019 …

TLDR; tired of the OGC WFS/GML/INSPIRE complexity mess new spirit from WFS v3 standard and OGC REST API movement title of this blog refers (YouTube): Shalamar, The Second Time Around . pygeoapi implements OGC REST APIs in Python I joined pygeoapi pygeoapi can unlock/proxy existing WFS v1,v2 and any OGR Source! About …

This is Emit #6, in a series of blog-posts around the Smart Emission Platform , an Open Source software component framework that facilitates the acquisition, processing and (OGC web-API) unlocking of spatiotemporal sensor-data, mainly for Air Quality and other environmental sensor-data like noise. In Emit #5 – …

Never too late to look back. Inspired by the concise bullet-point-style of Tom Kralidis’ Cheers to 2018 , my personal highlights of living and working in the Open Source Geospatial and OSGeo(.nl|org)-world in 2018. I’ll post 2019 reso’s later. Not just personal projects, but also events from the OSGeo.nl Local Chapter …

During June 21-24, 2016 I attended the very first GeoPython Conference in Basel Switzerland . This event was organized by the Institute of Geomatics Engineering of the FHNW – University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland and PyBasel , the local Python User Group Northwestern Switzerland. In …

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 …

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 …