Archives for November 2012

Greenland for Visualisation of Geospatial Data

November 26, 2012 by Daniel Nuest 1 Comment

Filed Under: Geostatistics Tagged With: browser client, demo, GeoViQua, Greenland, HTML5, quality, release, software, uncertainty, UncertML, UncertWeb, visualisation, WMS netCDF, WMS-Q

The Geostatistics community is proud to present its newest software project: Greenland. Greenland is a client-side tool to render quality-aware geospatial data. It is implemented as a JavaScript web application using OpenLayers and ExtJS, leveraging HTML5 features, such as the canvas element. It is based on work originally started within the UncertWeb project – “the visualization client” – and is now also developed further within the GeoViQua project. Therefore we decided to join efforts, move the code up in the repository to the main level, and give the software a new name (and without acronyms this time!).

Some of the features of Greenland:more >

SWE for Smart Cities

November 21, 2012 by Daniel Nuest Leave a Comment

Filed Under: Communities, Geoprocessing, Sensor Web Tagged With: geoprocessing, hands-on, ICC urbiotica, indra, nexusgeografics, prodevelop, SES, SOS, SPS, workshop, WPS

Last week, Jordi Guimet from IDEC, Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya, invited 52°North team members Simon Jirka and Daniel Nüst to hold a workshop on OGC Sensor Web Enablement Initiative (SWE) Technologies in the context of the Smart Cities Expo in Barcelona. The event took place in a stunning tower meeting room of the Catalan Institute of Cartography.

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Mentor Summit 2012

November 16, 2012 by Daniel Nuest Leave a Comment

Filed Under: GSoC Tagged With: Google, Mentor Summit, Mountain View

Arguably a bit overdue, but here is the report for the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit 2013. Enjoy!

This year 52°North was a first time participant as a mentoring organization in the Google Summer of Code. After successful completion of all of our four projects, we were very glad to be invited to the Mentor Summit at Google Headquarters in Mountain View, California. 52°North was represented by our organization administrator Daniel Nüst, who organized the application and supported all mentors and students throughout the duration of the program and participated in the two day “unconference”.

Mentors from all over the world came together to visit Google’s Headquarters. This included a trip to the famous Android figures, visits to the company canteen and coffee kitchen (yes, plenty and good!), and a few glimpses into the day of a Googler: going to the Googleplex in a white bus with fast Wi-Fi, a nice atmosphere on a modern campus, checking out the Google Store during lunch break, and peeks into individually decorated cubicles.