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The Center for Geospatial Science (CGS) and the Service-Oriented Software Research Network (SOSoRNET) are organizing a workshop about Geospatial Web Services. It will be held at the CGS in Nottingham from 16-17 June 2008. It is meant to get insights into key research activities in the field of Geospatial Web Services, but also to give […]

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 […]

Google announced yesterday that KML is now an official OGC standard. With this step, KML has taken yet another step in a remarkable “career”: originally developed by Keyhole (hence the name Keyhole Markup Language) for their product Earth Viewer, the format was adopted by Google for Google Earth, which was developed based on the Keyhole […]

Somehow, I have missed the OGC press anouncement, or will there be none? Whatever, the WPS has been released as an implementation specification at OGC after a long trail. All the documents are available through here. The schemas can be also downloaded from here.
Just in time, 52north released a new version of the 52n […]

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 […]

For the AGILE workshop about Test-bed for geospatial web service interoperability which was held last week before the AGILE conference, I prepared with Bastian Schaeffer, MSc. student from the University of Muenster, a Web Processing Service demo. The demo client is based on udig and allows the user to integrate different remote sources (WFS & […]

I got around this question about REST and OGC Services, while writing a paper. And I am still struggeling in two ways with the question. First way, are my conclusions right and second, is this really a relevant question?
But first a short introduction. The term REST stands for Representation State Transfer and was coined in […]