The Wonderful World of Open Source Geo

Tales from Topographic Maps

Just van den Broecke
just[AT]justobjects.nl
www.justobjects.nl

Idiom

Open

Geo FOSS Compass

To get you started

Q: how does Google Maps/Earth fit in ?

Raster is Faster - Vector is Correcter

Raster Data through WMS

    http://server.com/wms?service=WMS&request=GetMap&
      layers=top25&
      bbox=82967,452830,84203,454168&
      width=508&height=550&
      srs=EPSG:28992&format=image/jpeg
    

Vector Data through WFS

  http://server.com/wfs?service=WFS&request=GetFeature&
    typeName=hockeyclubs&
    featureid=hockeyclubs.85
    

How it fits together

OpenGeo Stack - "The LAMP of GFOSS"

(From OpenGeo)

Time to get Hands Dirty

The OpenGeo Stack in Action

  1. Obtaining Data (The Web)
  2. Converting Data (GPSBabel, GDAL, PROJ, PostGIS)
  3. Managing Data (GeoServer)
  4. Visualization (OpenLayers, QGIS)
  5. Optimization (GeoWebCache)

Demo Setup

OpenGeo Stack - Learning

workshops.opengeo.org

Further Reading

Conclusions

Why ?

 

Because Maps are Cool ! -->>