Its a bit early to be making predictions about how IGIBS might evolve, but a recent presentation to the EDINA geoteam followed by some discussion indicated some of the possibilities. The WMS Factory Tool. With the simple but effective styling capability that Michael Koutroumpas engineered, I think we have a prototype thats not too far […]
“An INSPIREing tool enabling researchers to share their geospatial data over the web” The Open Geospatial Consortium’s Web Map Service (WMS) is a core standard underpinning many Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) throughout the world. This includes INSPIRE, the UK Location Programme and our own UK academic SDI. The WMS Factory Tool created by the IGIBS […]
The blog content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. IGIBS source code, i.e. the WMS Factory tool and the Mapping Application, is released under the modified BSD license. The full licence text will be included in any released source bundle. The data licence(s) chosen depend on the original input data used. […]
Now available, the registration page for the GECO/IGIBS event on Friday 11th Nov, 2011 from 1115 to 1500 GMT at the Welsh Government Buildings, Cathays Park, Cardiff. Full details can be found here We have a good mix of speakers from the academic, public and private sectors, and should get some good discussion. I think […]
After some fantastic help from James Reid at EDINA we thought to put together a blog post summarising some of the conclusions we have come to over INSPIRE. At this stage it may be worth having a look at my earlier but less informed post regarding INSPIRE to understand how my understanding of the issues has […]
Last week at IGES we had a rebirth of the map library as it became digital. This probably sounds more dramatic than it was. What we did was to create a new drive on the public network for IGES staff and students with a structured directory and put on some spatial data that relates to […]
Below is a copy of a blog entry I put on the DCC website after attending their Roadshow in September …… As a rather out-of-practice ecologist I was looking forward to the DCC Roadshow with a little trepidation. Would the material be aimed at digital curators writing code to fine tune their repository functionality? Or […]
One of the goals of IGIBS is to allow users to generate protected WMS services using SAML-based access control. The technology behind this is based on prior research done in the past few years by EDINA for the EU funded ESDIN project. The ideas produced by the project have been successfully tested within the OGC […]
One of the main challenges in creating a WMS factory tool is to provide an intuitive way for end users to specify the rendering rules for the data they upload. Significant progress has already been made within IGIBS in calculating on-the-fly the minimum/maximum scale which is adequate for raster data. However, The cartographic rules mandatory […]
I was fortunate enough to have a meeting with some people from EDINA and the DCC in Edinburgh on Wednesday. The aim of the meeting was to get some input and advice from some experts on the ideas I have for a spatial data management best practice report. So a big thank you to Martin Donnelly […]