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OGC adopts PUCK standard… Congratulations, Tom!

January 31, 2012 by Ann Hitchcock Leave a Comment

Filed Under: Sensor Web Tagged With: PUCK, Sensor Plug and Play, SID, SWE

Congratulations to Tom O’Reilly (MBARI), the editor of the PUCK standard! Today, the OGC membership has voted to adopt the OGC PUCK Protocol Standard.

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Ilwis 4

January 23, 2012 by Martin Schouwenburg 1 Comment

Filed Under: ILWIS

Ilwis 3.8 is almost done (sigh, finally) and apart from some bug tracking I don’t expect significant changes anymore. I am not sure if I will release it before my own holidays ( after 2nd week of february) but we will see.

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Segment and Point editors

January 16, 2012 by Martin Schouwenburg 1 Comment

Filed Under: ILWIS

Both these editors have been significantly changed. This was a side effect of having changed the drawing system of Ilwis. The way the old editors worked could not maintained in the new system and so I had to redesign them from ground up. This proved to be a more time consuming job then I had anticipated. Particulary in the segment editor there were so many states and state transistions to be reckoned with that I sometimes had trouble determining the right course of action. Anyway, I think I now have a working editor for both pointmaps and segment maps.

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Successful HackDay Münster 2011

January 12, 2012 by Ann Hitchcock Leave a Comment

Filed Under: 52°North, Communities, Sensor Web

Ifgi recently hosted Münster’s first HackDay to promote contributions to the nationwide “Apps4DE” competition. Between 40 and 60 hackers and thinkers from Münster met throughout the day to discuss “open data” and come up with ideas for Apps which demonstrate the use of public sector information. An opening presentation by Albert Remke was followed by a series of lightening talks about linked science, linked open data, map Apps and Augmented Reality. After several hours of brainstorming and hacking in small groups, the participants presented resulting ideas and small prototypes such as:

Family and Recreation App
App for Open Sensor Data
Linked open data applications for the Bundestag members and their private activities in the market economy

Several participants also announced that they plan to submit their idea or App as a proposal to the “Apps4DE” competition. In the eyes of the particpants, the Münster HackDay – one in a series of Hackdays promoted by the Open Knowledge Foundation – proved to be a highly successful event!

Organisers: Geonetzwerk Münsterland, 52N, ifgi, con terra, Open Knowledge Foundation