Category Archives for gis
Gulf of Mexico – BP Oilspill tracking application
Last weekend, I’ve created a web application, that monitors the BP oilspill in the Gulf of Mexico. http://giswhat.be/oilspill2010/oilspill.html The application is completely based on HTML & JavaScipt, JQuery and OpenLayers to be precise. The data is comming from 2 different … Continue reading
update: WMS Performance Shootout at FOSS4G 2009
I’ve been following this previously, but never posted the results! Shame on me! Anyway, these are the slides: http://www.slideshare.net/gatewaygeomatics.com/wms-performance-shootout Conclusion: both where very fast! But in most cases MapServer (in FastCGI configuration) is a bit faster compared to GeoServer. Hehe, … Continue reading
ESRI 2010 DEV Summit: ArcGIS Server workshops
2 months ago, there was the ESRI Development summit in Palm Spring. Unfortunately I wasn’t there, but they’ve put everything online! I’ve taken a look, to see if there was anything interesting in the workshops for ArcGIS Server, and this … Continue reading
google wave adds notifications
Google just enabled email notifications in Google Wave. To be honest, lately I didn’t check Wave that regularly anymore, so this comes very handy.To enable the notifications, just click the arrow that appears when you hover your mouse over Inbox. … Continue reading
…and we’re back…
It’s been a while since my last post here, approx 5 moths or something? Auch… But this is no more, I’ll try to post more from now on . What have I been doing lately? Well, lots of (interesting) work … Continue reading
update: WMS Performance Shootout at FOSS4G 2009
As you previously could read on this blog, there’s a WMS performance shootout at FOSS4G 2009. Participants where three of the major WMS server providers: UMN MapServer, GeoServer and – finally- ESRI with ArcGIS Server. But yesterday, the announcement was … Continue reading
google wave invites
I just got an email from Google that my account for their wave application is ready. I already sent some invitations, but I’ve got two left. Just mail me, and the invite is yours! Btw, you won’t receive the invite … Continue reading
Question: best way to store simple point data: shapefile or GML
Today, a colleague asked the following question: What is the best way to store simple point data: a coordinate and a value. The file format has to be as universally deployable as possible and it has to be future proof. … Continue reading
WMS Performance Shootout at FOSS4G 2009
I’ve just received this in my mailbox from Cameron Shorter: GeoServer, MapServer, and ArcGIS Server will be competing for the title of “Fastest Web Map Server (WMS)” at the FOSS4G 2009 conference at the end of October. The Web Mapping … Continue reading