Category Archives for OGC
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
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
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
Geostack Workshop
Couple of days ago, Paul Ramsey and Steven Citron-Pousty gave a workshop at GeoWeb (@ Vancouver, BC) on installing, configuring and using a complete open source geospatial application stack (database, application server, web app & desktop. Except for the desktop … Continue reading
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
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