Category Archives for open source

gegis (or geomajas) comparison

A couple of weeks ago, I gave a presentation at the gegis user round table talks. The presentation was about the comparison between gegis (or geomajas if you like) and the other open source web gis applications. These are the … Continue reading

29. April 2009 by wouter
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deegree WFS & ArcSDE (updated)

After several days searching, debugging and sweating, but I finally got it: There’s no support for complex features in the deegree WFS service for the ArcSDE DB (a very nice open source web gis solution btw!). Simple features are supported, … Continue reading

21. April 2009 by wouter
Categories: gis, OGC, open source, WFS | Tags: , , , , , , | 2 comments

Microsoft shoots own foot in iceland

Ohh boy, this is a nice one from the buddies at Microsoft: Microsoft has a business model that is called “The Microsoft Certified Partner model”. Basically it says that these mcp’s buy contracts from Microsoft, and sells them to businesses … Continue reading

10. March 2009 by wouter
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MapServer gets a speedbump

A one day code sprint in Toronto, and MapServer gets the following improvements: Paul Ramsey: Sprint Day #3 Impressive!

10. March 2009 by wouter
Categories: database, foss4g, gis, mapserver | Tags: , , , | Leave a comment

Open Source Servlet Engine from Google

Yesterday, Google released there own custom servlet engine, well, kinda… Article: Google Open Source Blog: OpenGSE Released The article says that this servlet engine is in the core the same as the one that powers GMail, nice. However it’s not … Continue reading

28. January 2009 by wouter
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Some more info on CCIP

Just found some more info (here): CCIP demonstrates standards based interoperability between geospatial applications based on a Climate Change scenario. It consists of a server with multiple virtual machines, each installed with geospatial applications offering standards based web services. All … Continue reading

25. January 2009 by wouter
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