Tag Archives: ogc

Opensource, OpenLS and OpenStreetMaps for a OpenRouteService

Posted on July 11, 2008 by joesonic

Open Source GIS solutions gain more and more attention in the Geoinformation sciences community over the past years. Now there are numerous usable and stable Open Source libraries and tools for spatial data management, customization and visualisation available. Open Source … Continue reading →

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OGC and KML

Posted on April 15, 2008 by joesonic

KML was an defacto-Standard for visualization of geospatial data over the Internet. Now it’s an official standard, approved by the OGC. Here the official announcement of the OGC: Wayland, Mass., April 14, 2008 – The members of the Open Geospatial … Continue reading →

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SensorWeb the new trend word

Posted on March 31, 2008 by joesonic

Everyone is talking about the SensorWeb, but what is this all about and where is the relation to Geoinformatics? Wikipedia defines the sensorweb as follows: The Sensor Web is a type of sensor network or geographic information system (GIS) that … Continue reading →

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WPS – A new standard for processing georelated tasks

Posted on February 23, 2008 by admin

The members of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) have approved version 1.0 of the OpenGIS® Web Processing Service (WPS) Interface Standard. The WPS standard defines an interface that facilitates the publishing of geospatial processes and makes it easier to … Continue reading →

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