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52 North Open Source Geospatial Initiative's Third Newsletter
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The 52° North open source geospatial software initiative has released their third newsletter. The topics covered are: "1 - INTERGEO 2007
2 - FOSS4G 2007
3 - OGC compliant WPS
4 - Participation in OWS-5." The introduction: "52°North looks back on an eventful first year as a company. We facilitated the maturation of two new communities, ILWIS and Geo-processing, thus increasing our number of full-fledged communities, developers and software releases. In addition, the Security community broadened its focus to incorporate and implement new concepts in geo-rights management. Our partners continue to prove their expertise by actively participating in the OGC standardization process and by producing innovative code based on current standards." See also related previous stories about 52° North below.
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Open Source Software Components from 52 North
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Ann Hitchcock writes "52°North publishes first stable releases - Quality assurance makes the difference!
52°North (http://www.52north.org/ )is proud to announce the first software stable releases which have successfully completed the 52°North quality assurance testing! As an open source software initiative, we emphasize quality management to ensure software's practical suitability and sustainability. This cross-sectional task is anchored in our organizational model and has evoked the creation of a Quality Management Task Force. This Task Force has taken over the task of defining, implementing and continually developing QM processes. Those processes necessary for the quality assurance testing of 52°North software are of particular interest to users and have been successfully applied in the past few months." Read more below. Their Mission makes is clearer: "52°North's mission is to advance the design, development and use of open source software in geoinformatics research, training and application. We will bridge the gap not only between research and application, but also between open source and commercial software."
52North: New Open Source Geospatial Initiative 5 comments
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Here's a part of the press release: Ann Hitchcock writes "[...] 52°North is an open initiative that strives to advance the development of cutting edge open source geospatial software. The initial focii of the open source technology development are Sensor Web Enablement (SWE), Web Security and Digital Rights Management (DRM). The members anticipate that other streams of work will open up according to community direction. [...]" You can read the full press release below. Now, can anyone tell me if there is a relation between this initiave and the Open Source Geospatial Foundation?
ITC's GIS Software ILWIS Migrates to Open Source
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The OSGeo announce mailing list tells us the Integrated Land and Water Information System (ILWIS) GIS software migrates to open source with 52 North. From the announcement: "In order to create better opportunities for the reuse and deployment of GIS
functionality in a wider community, the ITC directorate has recently decided to
make current ILWIS software free of charge and to migrate it as such to open
source software under the 52°North initiative." See related stories below to learn more about the 52 North initiative and where it stands to OSGeo. These comments on import cartography are also interesting.
Web Processing Service (WPS) Demos 1 comment
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Anonymous Voxel writes "An old (but still interesting) news from geoserver blog: Theodor Foerster, of 52North and ITC, has been leveraging GeoServer in his work on generalization of geospatial data using the new Web Processing Service specification. He recently posted some nice new work, including updates to the Web Processing Service web app, as well as a new WPS client written as a plug-in to uDig. Awhile ago he also did some prototypes of integrating the WPS with GeoServer, making the WPS a datastore that could be served out as WMS and WFS. It’s great to see new open source tools being built that can use and leverage the work we’ve done with GeoServer. You can see his work in action, with GeoServer, in the screencast that he’s also posted.
Eventually we’re hoping to be able to offer some integration between GeoServer and his WPS work, possibly as a plug-in to GeoServer that makes it really easy to install both, and to do common data configuration through our web gui. In the past we’ve also talked to the FROGS WPS community about possible integrations as well. Since we’re evolving GeoServer to be a platform it makes a lot of natural sense to be able to bring WPS in to the mix, in some form. It looks like the FROGS people are also leveraging Spring, which may help compatibility as well (we haven’t talked to them for awhile so I suppose we can just cross our fingers that they’re looking at what we’ve done). So if anyone has the time or the money to get a WPS integrated with GeoServer, let us know, as we’ve got some great pieces to work with."
Eventually we’re hoping to be able to offer some integration between GeoServer and his WPS work, possibly as a plug-in to GeoServer that makes it really easy to install both, and to do common data configuration through our web gui. In the past we’ve also talked to the FROGS WPS community about possible integrations as well. Since we’re evolving GeoServer to be a platform it makes a lot of natural sense to be able to bring WPS in to the mix, in some form. It looks like the FROGS people are also leveraging Spring, which may help compatibility as well (we haven’t talked to them for awhile so I suppose we can just cross our fingers that they’re looking at what we’ve done). So if anyone has the time or the money to get a WPS integrated with GeoServer, let us know, as we’ve got some great pieces to work with."
GLCN, 52' North and Canada's GeoBase Newsletters & National Hydro Network
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Catching up my September emails, here's the Global Land Cover Network has released their bulletin #12 (don't ask about the dates! ;-), the 52'North open source geospatial initiative has released their second newsletter, but I haven't found it on their website. Meanwhile, Canada's GeoBase launched their first newsletter [pdf], not long after the announcement of Canada's National Hydro Network: "The National Hydro Network describes and
models the elements of the interior, surface
water systems of Canada. It contains two
representations of water: a linear network
which is a logical representation detailing
surface water movement; and, a more
traditional cartographic representation of
hydrographic elements such as lakes, rivers,
and streams."
Update on 52North's Activities
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Ann Hitchcock writes "A year ago, ITC’s Integrated Land and Water Information System (ILWIS) successfully migrated to the open source scene with ILWIS 3.4 Open. Since then it has enjoyed increasing use in the open source community. We have registered 20,000 hits in one year! An increasingly active community has just brought out a new release – ILWIS 3.5 Open. This release provides a more flexible, easy to install, powerful, PC-based GIS and Remote Sensing software package." Read more below for the rest of Ann's report. We mentioned the 52 North geospatial open source initiative, which has similarities to the OSGeo, before.
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