_2012-02-15

52°North announces a call for participation in and presentations at the "Workshop on Testing Geospatial Web Services - Scientific SDIs" at the 15th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science in Avignon, France. The workshop aims to outline the state of the art and the technical and scientific issues related to Geo Web Services, its testing and Scientific SDIs. Best practice examples will be discussed. Further goals are the development of consistent testing strategies and the support of geospatial research in major EU programs, science and education.

Deadline for abstracts is March 1, 2012.

_2012-01-31

OGC members have just adopted the OGC PUCK Protocol Standard. PUCK defines a standard instrument protocol to store and automatically retrieve metadata directly from a sensor instrument. It is a simple standard which augments the instrument’s existing native protocols and has been implemented by several sensor manufacturers. 52°North’s Sensor Interface Descriptor (SID) concept can be nicely coupled with PUCK and has contributed to the new standard. The SID specification provides a well-defined model to define a sensor instrument’s protocol that can replace the sensor driver software. With PUCK, the SID can be can be stored on the instrument and automatically retrieved, thus enabling sensor plug & play.

OGC press release PUCK Standard...

more information on the SID...

_2011-12-22

52°North thanks all partners, developers and customers who have helped to make 2011 a successful year. We wish you Happy Holidays and look forward to exploring horizons together in 2012!

_2011-12-21

The Technische Universitaet Dresden recently submitted an idea for a Geoprocessing AppStore to the nationwide competition "Apps 4 Deutschland". This competition seeks ideas and operational software to unfold the use of open data provided by public authorities. It aims to showcase the value of public sector information and to leverage the discussion about open data in Germany.

In order to process increasingly larger amounts of free open geodata, the TU Dresden works with 52°North to create a so-called Geoprocessing AppStore. The goal is to develop a versatile tool box of of algorithms for processing geodata. This "market place" enables developers and users of free geoprocessing algorithms to meet and publicize, search for, execute and download free algorithms for processing and analyzing geodata.

This AppStore will help citizens, companies, decision makers as well as society take advantage of the enormous added value of free open geodata.

more information about the Geoprocessing AppStore here...

_2011-12-05

Maps and apps for Open Data...

Yes, we can!

The German Ministry of the Interior recently launched the nationwide competition "Apps 4 Deutschland". This competition seeks ideas and operational software to unfold the use of open data provided by public authorities. It aims to showcase the value of public sector information and to leverage the discussion on open data in Germany.

Various members of the Geonetzwerk Münsterland - a regional network of local authorities and partners from academia and IT industry, all dealing with spatial information - decided to take up this idea and to push the development by organizing the "Apps4DE Hackday Münster".