– Workshop for Building Smart Cities Applications with Sensor Web
Sensor data plays an important role in smart cities applications by adding a real time dimension to the overall city situation. Typical fields of application are air quality, weather, traffic conditions and their resulting influence on city life. Simultaneously, OGC Sensor Web Enablement technology provides fundamental building blocks to flexibly create diverse applications based on sensors and their data.more >
OSGeo-Live 7.0 has been released! For this release, geospatial applications have been updated to their latest stable release. OSGeo-Live is a self-contained bootable DVD, USB flash drive and Virtual Machine based upon Ubuntu Linux (version 12.04 LTS). OSGeo-Live is pre-configured with a wide variety of robust open source geospatial software. All applications can be trialled without installing anything on your computer, simply by booting the computer from a DVD or USB drive, or running in a Virtual Machine environment. Each featured package is accompanied by both a publication quality one page descriptive summary and a short tutorial on how to get started using it. more >
OSGeo-Live 6.0 is released. For this release, all OSGeo-Live java applications have been successfully migrated to OpenJDK 7. Migration to OpenJDK was driven by Oracle’s announcement that including Sun Java in Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu, or OSGeo-Live, is no longer allowed. In addition, the Xubuntu base has been upgraded to 12.04 LTS (Long Term Support).