Monday, January 25, 2010

Juan's project for featured-oriented synchro is on OW2Forge

OW2Forge give news on Tellus project (Juan's project part ) on : http://forge.ow2.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=1764 for the featured-oriented synchronization.

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Haiti

The situation in Haiti is an example where synchronization of POIs is a good option:


  • As soon as a surveyor reaches an internet-enabled spot, new POIs are added to the database and WMS clients (for example in a coordination office) can see the changes instantly.

  • As new POIs from surveyors A, B, and C get into D's handheld, D knows which areas need more attention and needs not update large amounts of raster data, since each point feature needs only a few bytes to be transmitted.



This is what the surveyor does:



This is what the WMS client shows:



Server:
http://hypercube.telascience.org/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/geo/haiti/mapfiles/4326.map

I think layer is correctly georeferenced:
noaa-01-18-4326