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New 52° North WPS Admin Web Application

June 18, 2013 by KhalidAlqinyah Leave a Comment

Filed Under: Geoprocessing, GSoC Tagged With: Administrator, Google Summer of Code, GSoC, Spring, WPS, WPS Admin

This week, we will have one blog post by each of this year’s Google Summer of Code students presenting their project and themselves. First off is Khalid – enjoy!

The project

The current web application for the 52° North Web Processing Service (WPS) admin is very inflexible and highly coupled. Functions and modules are implemented directly into the presentation elements, making it difficult to add new modules and maintain the code. In addition, the interface is limited and somewhat outdated and new functions are desired. This Google Summer of Code project aims to change that.

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SOS Administrator: A new user experience starts now!

September 3, 2012 by Shubham Sachdeva Leave a Comment

Filed Under: 52°North, GSoC, Sensor Web Tagged With: 52°North, Administrator, Back-end, Google Summer of Code, Installer, Sensor Observation Service, Sensor Web, Spring, Wizard

The end of Google Summer of Code is a new beginning of the SOS Administrator. This year, the SOS Administrator project aimed to improve the user experience with 52°North Sensor Observation Service (SOS) and make its administration more intuitive. We tried to achieve that goal by making 52°North SOS installations just a matter of few clicks. First stepping stones were also laid out to facilitate SOS administrators by getting together useful features within a adminstrative backend.

The web-based SOS Installer is a really handy tool for inexperienced users who want to try the 52°North SOS, but also an equally useful tool for experienced users who appreciate a simpler and quicker installation procedure. You deploy the standard SOS web archive and visit the installer page. The wizardmore >