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52°North SOS and WPS on OSGeo Live DVD 8.5

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OSGeo-Live 8.5 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 >

Access Control UI For SOS Servers – Final Blog Post

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The aim of this project is to provide administrators with a graphical user interface – the permissions editor – to restrict features and data access to an SOS instance for the defined user roles.  During the second half of the project we mainly worked on the user stories and focussed on providing additional functionalities and improving the process of creating permission sets and permissions.  The previous blog post contains the work conducted during the first half of the project, after which all the basic user stories were in place. Below are the resources for the project which track the status and work done:

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Access Control UI For SOS Servers – Mid Term Blog Post

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The project’s aim is to define rules to restrict access to SOS contents on the operation and parameter level. An introduction to the project can be found in the previous blog post. This goal is achieved with a nice graphical user interface to enable the admin user to manage permissions for a particular enforcement point, which is the connection point for the client instead of the original SOS endpoint.more >

Access Control UI For SOS Servers

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Project Description

Currently the OGC SOS allows the use of Sensor data through an inter operable interface through which a user can perform tasks, such as

1. Getting the sensor observations;
2. Getting the capabilities of the sensor;
3. Inserting, deleting and reading the observations of the sensor etc.

There is no graphical permission editor through which we can control which user role can access which parameters. Through the interface the admin should be able to grant and revoke rights for different parameters to the roles already defined. An example use case of access control would be that users assigned the role “guest” should only be able to get the capabilities of the sensor and not insert/delete observations.

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