Archive for 'Web Service' category

Fire Eagle

Friday, 20. June 2008

Yahoo! is currently running an invitation-only beta test for it’s Fire Eagle location broker. The idea is as simple as useful: Fire Eagle takes your current location as input from different services or applications and passes them on to other services or applications. To locate yourself, the Fire Eagle web site, services like plazes.com, or […]

Geospatial Web Services Workshop @ CGS Nottingham

Saturday, 31. May 2008

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 […]

GI-days 2008 program available

Wednesday, 21. May 2008

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 […]

Web Processing Service 1.0.0

Wednesday, 19. December 2007

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 […]

Web Processing Service demo

Thursday, 17. May 2007

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 & […]

How REST-ful are OGC Services?

Friday, 9. March 2007

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 […]