Here an impression from our 52°North booth at the INTERGEO fair which has taken place in Hannover during the past days. As you can see, we presented our work in the fields of Sensor Web, Web Processing, and also Linked Data and the Web of Things. We have met a lot of interesting contacts and received good feedback! Thanks to all who helped with the demonstrations and the organization!
The Institute for Geoinformatics (ifgi) is looking for highly motivated candidates to fill two positions, one at the post-doc level and one at the PhD student level. Both positions are fully funded by the Linked Data for eScience Services (LIFE) project – a two-year project funded by the German Research Foundation, jointly carried out by the Semantic Interoperability Lab (MUSIL) at ifgi and the University Library at the University of Münster.
If you are interested, please find more information here.
The application process is open until October 15, 2012 or until the positions are filled.
As I mentioned in a previous post (please read it before continuing), I intended to extend the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Processing Service (WPS) enabling it to process continuous data streams, as well as to send intermediate results back to the client. These two capabilities are realized with Full Streaming WPS, a new approach that brings near real-time geoprocessing to WPS. In this post, the foundations of such an approach are given, as well as implementation details and pointers to public resources. It also includes a demo.
The culmination of 13 long and arduous weeks as part of Google Summer of Code 2012 has produced a new prototype feature within Web Processing Service: the ability to take OpenStreetMap data and transform it on the fly into other GIS formats.
What does this mean?
We can now directly interface with OpenStreetMap servers (Overpass API) such that we can send custom queries for map data retrieval, and have it returned not as OSM XML files, but rather any GIS format that is supported by WPS. This is demonstrable through the WPS test client on the demo server. Here is a breakdown of the features implemented:
Currently there are two sample algorithms that are bundled in this project:
This allows for adventurous developers to go in and create their own custom algorithms for WPS that interface directly with OpenStreetMap.
Some videos of this in action are available here:
More details on installation, configuration, and development can be found on the wiki page for this project.
Comments and Future work
Of course, this is probably not the end. There exist many avenues of future work, some of which I have thought of during the process of development, and some which have been suggested to me. A short list of what would be useful next steps:more >