Archive for the ‘GIS[en]’ Category

FOSS4G-CEE & Geoinformatics 2012 Announcement

Saturday, December 17th, 2011

FOSS4G-CEE & Geoinformatics is an international conference addressing geospatial technologies developed by or relevant to the Open Source community in Central and Eastern Europe. It will be held from 21sttill 23rd May 2012 in Prague, Czech Republic. The conference should bring the spirit of global FOSS4G event to our region. This year, ...

Temporal OWS Services

Monday, June 27th, 2011

This days (and months), I'm working on displaying various OWS services (OGC WMS, WCS and WFS at the beginning, slowly moving to SOS, ...) inside the Web Geoportal application. As you might know, we are using (and developing) HSLayers for your mapping purposes. It is OpenLayers- and ExtJS-based JavaScript Mapping framework. ...

First version of Czech INSPIRE Portal

Friday, February 18th, 2011

I'm happy to announce, that last month, first version of INSPIRE Geoportal for Czech republic was launched. We (HS-RS) are providing the portal with Mapping client and metadata (client and server). For the mapping part, HSLayers (derivate of OpenLayers) is used, which development was speeded up during last months. However, ...

Video about QGIS & GRASS & PyWPS

Saturday, January 29th, 2011

Soeren made great video about his work, he wrote PyWPS-GRASS modules bridge and in the video, the WPS client demonstrates the connection.

Unit tests for JavaScript? Fireunit!

Monday, July 5th, 2010

Unit tests do not solve all your problems and sometimes, you can simply not use them (or in very difficult way, e.g. when you are designing GUI). But they are suitable, if used properly. For JavaScript, this was a bit problem. Several unit tests suits are out there, you can ...

Geoinformatics FCE CTU Volume 4

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

Martin Landa has announced recently, that 4. volume of Geoinformatics FCE CTU was released. This journal is put together together with Geoinformatics conference on Open Source GIS and its development. PDF can be downloaded from http://gama.fsv.cvut.cz/data/geoinformatics/2009/geoinformatics-fce-ctu-2009-04.pdf Content: Bartoň R.: Custom OpenStreetMap Rendering – OpenTrackMap Experinence Richta T., Hrubý M.: Dynamic object-oriented geospatial modeling Charvát K.: ...

PyWPS as Java Servlet

Friday, January 29th, 2010

PyWPS is now able to run as Java Servlet within Tomcat. It is possible to access Java objects from PyWPS and to access PyWPS methods from Java. How this is possible? Several steps have been provided, to get it working. And the main one is, that PyWPS runs with Jython as ...

Ubuntu GIS – THE source of GIS for you

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

I was providing packages of GIS related software for Ubuntu distributions, because of I was packaging the software for me anyways and I just let them on the server. Many people seemed to be using them, but it is truth, that with the time, I moved from desktop-gis world to ...

Hard life of webdeveloper

Friday, June 12th, 2009

Since we are working with JavaScript, CSS and so on, we need it to test for mainstream browsers as well. Eventhough, we are using complex JavaScript frameworks, such as ExtJS and OpenLayers, live is never that easy. Our usual communication is like "Firefox 3.0 works, 3.5 works as well, IE ...

Qgis 1.1.0 for Ubuntu 9.04

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

Since there where some compatibility problems between new GRASS (6.4) and old Qgis (1.0), I compiled Qgis (1.1.0 - unstable) for Ubuntu 9.04 as well. Everything should work now. Please, report any problems in case, something does not work.