It has been a while since I made my last timelapse movie and I figured that today was a good day to check the status of linux and timelapsing. A quick google gave me gTimelapse which should allow my to use my dSLR as a timelapse camera. This would give me two advantages over my old set-up (and one disadvantage). My old set-up was a Nikon S4 with a power adapter and a reasonably big SD card. Having a power adapter meant that I could leave it running for months, which gave me for instance:
At work we got an i-gotU (a GPS logger) as a Christmas present. To show what one can do with it I decided to ask a few people to use their i-gotU to record their travels for two weeks. This resulted in over 42000 locations done by 8 different persons. Each person got his/her own color in the visualization to be able to see when people were near one another. Since the office is in Amsterdam and most people live in (different parts of) Amsterdam you can quickly see the contours of Amsterdam’s city-plan appear. Also interestingly is to note that people have their own specific areas where they spend most of their time.
Working with WCS I discovered a small but noticable shift of data in all three major OSS WCS applications:
To find out what the problem exactly was I’ve done some testing. I’ve taken a GeoTiff and configured all three the WCS applications to serve it. Gdalinfo gives us the following information, basically it is a GeoTIFF in epsg:3035 with a native resolution of 100m/pixel.
In the INSPIRE framework we are working on the ESDIN project and are using the EuroGeoNames (EGN) project as an implementation of ESDIN. INSPIRE is a big thing within the GIS world in Europe and loads of documents have been written so far.
We’re involved in both ESDIN and EGN and we decided to use the latter as a trial for the first. Together with our partners we’ve setup a series of servers to fulfill the needs of the projects. The main standard used is the latest WFS and GML versions, which have the annoying disadvantage that there are few clients available.