FODB database Linked directy to gvsig Mobile

Gvsig Mobile is linked to the embedded FODB database (openMobileIS framework) for GIS layers exploitation and edition.
Today, only point and line layer are possible.
Polygon will be coming soon.
FODB database can be directly synchronized with your postGIS (or other) GIS database on server part. The idea is to exploite your datas what ever your situation : with network or without.

A video of the GIS FODB edition/exploitation can be display here :
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8Huw0GnakI

IS Datas could also be synchronized/editable to the mobile device and be separated during the synchro on the serveur part. (2 differently DB (IS and GIS))
(this demo will coming soon)

New POC in preparation

For info, I work today on a new POC with for objectif to mix Juan 's features oriented synchro and mine files oriented synchro.
The idea is to allow POI edition (and in the futur, line and poly) directly in the FODB embedded database and synchronizable with an PostGIS server database (as juan synchro) and allow in the same time a file synchro for basemap (in vecto and raster format).
The idea is to separate the basemap info layers from the idetable layers. The basemap is often very huge and needs to have file synchro oriented (can be bittorent synchro for red-cut management). The features edition synchro is for few datas and could be stock in embedded DB to easily work with.
The POC in the mobile device will mix intervention management, get specific info from features and statement as GPS for example.

New POC for Veolia with Tellus

A new prototype required by Veolia (France) is done with Tellus. The idea is to show the selection of different tube (for maintenance) on the map and o switch to OpenMIS engine to generate intervention report.
Here you can watch the POC : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AT2cnI7l6I
Here you can download the code : svn://@svn.forge.objectweb.org/svnroot/openmobileis/trunk/modules/Tellus/Veolia

OSGeo live DVD released - Tellus included in it!

The latest version of the OSGeo Live GIS Disc was officially released yesterday. The aim of this project is to provide bootable ISO-Images and Virtual Machines which allow users to try out fully-operational versions of popular Free Geospatial Software without the need to install a thing. Everything is set up for you ready to go: just reboot into it, glance at the help pages on the desktop, and go.

OSGeo Live GIS Disc download site:
http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/

The latest version is called Arramagong 3.0 and includes Unofficial gvSIG Mobile for Linux v. 0.1.6, whose main functionality is the feature synchronization, using the module from the Tellus repository.

The mascot of Arramagong 3.0 is this nice wombat (Australian marsupial).

Tellus will be in the OSGeo live DVD

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation, or OSGeo, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to support and promote the collaborative development of open geospatial technologies and data.

Among other things, OSGeo usually distributes live DVDs (Linux) or pen-drives with a selection of open-source GIS software to gain publicity. In the next version of that DVD, OSGeo will include Unofficial gvSIG Mobile for Linux devices.

I will include three little PDF files in the DVD, which will be easily accessible for those who start the DVD. The files are:

• Synchronization/Tellus brochure


• Short user manual


• British maps gallery

I have added a British gallery because in June there will be an important GIS event in Nottingham, and this DVD will probably be distributed there as well.

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.

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