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This year’s GI-days conference (16-17 June), held in Muenster, Germany, is focusing on Interoperability and spatial processing in GI applications. The conference program has just been released and it seems, that Processing Services are one of the major topics. Two separate sessions are held on WPS. Additionally there will be workshops on Wednesday, which also […]

JTS and GEOS are the backbone of most Open Source GIS applications. JTS is a java-based API implementing the Simple Features Specification and providing a lot of feature analysis tools. GEOS is the geometry engine for the PostGIS database. So a review of the history of such prominent pieces of GI-libraries is really worthy to […]

I just discovered an interesting article on the Geospatial Semantic Web Blog about Semantic Web Services and their importance to the movement of the Semantic Web. The author states, that the Semantic Web could exist without the notion of Semantic Web Services.
Looking at the evolving importance of Web Processing Services (OGC just released a discussion […]

Yesterday I got introduced to citeUlike.org by the members of this blog. This is an open environment to share and tag your used literature references. As I am facing the problem to relate research of me and others (by looking at the common literature and their keywords), I am thinking of intersecting different tag clouds […]