Last week there was a QGIS course at our institute. Since the Ilwis-objects work consumes all my times these days, I didn’t attend myself. I did, however, find it interesting to hear what others thought about it. After all, why are we building Ilwis-objects if a big, successful open source package exists in the same niche? Good question, but then again why is Volkswagen building cars when Toyota is doing the same? Functionally, they are the quite similar, aren’t they? They have four weels, an engine and some controls. No need for others…more >
One of the new things in Ilwis4 is the modeller. The modeller is a complex set of tools that tries to “model” the behaviour of dynamic spatial systems in several conceptual layers. In a crude way, one could say that it is a GUI for the script. This is essentially true, but it doesn’t do justice to the whole idea behind the modeller.more >
I completed my external semester at 52°North on October 2, 2015. During this internship, my task was to gain experience in software development by developing a metadata editor for standarized sensor metadata. Please see my initial blog post for more information. I fulfilled this task by implementing an editor based on the smartEditor project and built a prototype which enables the editing of the metadata language SensorML. This prototype is called SmartSensorEditor. Currently, this editor supports several elements of the SensorML description language.more >