Geomajas @ FOSS4G 2010

This page has been created for you to easily follow up on Geomajas during the FOSS4G 2010 conference in Barcelona. During FOSS4G, we will try to update this page regularly!

Presentations

FOSS4G is regarded as the biggest and most influential conference for free and open source software for geospatial. That is why it is an important happening for the Geomajas project to increase visibility. Fortunately, multiple members of the Geomajas community have been selected to give presentations and poster sessions at the conference:

Pieter De Graef, Geomajas Chair, will talk about ‘Geomajas, the new kid on the block’. September 8th, 16:30h

Just as we are all getting used to working with Javascript and HTML when creating web-based GIS applications, comes along Geomajas, the newest addition to the OSGeo family. As Google introduced interactive maps to the public, OpenLayers has demonstrated what could be achieved when using the full power of the browser. Now, again, the bar must be raised in order to lift the web GIS world to the level of the thick client desktop systems. Geomajas is an end-to-end solution for creating web-based GIS applications, where a strong server-side focus allows for data integration, security, and optionally even rendering to be done server-side, without having to interfere with the client. This keeps the client as thin and performing as possible. The presentation introduces the new Geomajas 1.7 technology, as well as why it's different from other software products. 

download presentation

Oliver May, member of the PSC, will give a presentation about 'Real-Time position analysis during soccer games’. September 8th, 14:30h

During soccer games a number of doubtful situations can arise that cannot be easily judged instantly. The presentation talks about a web-based GIS application that displays soccer game in real-time. The application, developed for the BIPS™ project (Ball Intelligent Positioning System), enables the analysis in real-time of the position of all soccer players on the field or to playback at a later time. During such a recording, relevant events such as goal, ball out, offside, etc. are also detected and reported.

Joachim Van der Auwera, member of the PSC, will talk about ‘The evolution of GIS data’. September 9th, 09:00h

We all know GIS data is not static. The data will change, but still users expect to have consistent view on the world. Using transactions in your GIS data store is often no solution as editing and approval may take a long time to finish. During his presentation Joachim goes over some options for versioning your data by investigating how this is handled in various systems and looks at some of the implications for the applications and user experience. He looks at the inclusion of versioning of your data, the use and application of business processes and business rules and the effects on scalability.

download presentation

Christoph Baudson will talk about 'A typification of open source web mapping client software and frameworks'.

OSGeo is umbrella to several web mapping software projects. These can be separated into libraries, dedicated web mapping packages and developer frameworks. Each of them have specific application scenarios and address different use cases. At one point every operator has to take a decision for one project. This decision will also take aspects into account that are not addressed here including strategic parameters, internal know-how and availability of service providers. We will focus on differentiating four well established software packages from within OSGeo and put them into a context. This typification among others includes Geomajas.

Jan De Moerloose, member of the PSC, will hold a poster session about ‘Do It Yourself spatial application creation with Geomajas’.

The European ITEA project DIYSE (Do It Yourself Smart Experiences) aims at enabling ordinary people to easily create, setup and control applications in their smart living environments as well as in the public Internet-of-Things space. As an industry partner, Geosparc is leveraging this project to create an application generator and low level application creation environment for the Geomajas spatial web application framework. 

download poster

Joachim Van der Auwera and Pieter De Graef, will jointly hold a poster session about the ‘Geomajas Roadmap’.

2010 was an important year for the Geomajas project. A bit more than a year after the creation of Geomajas as an independent framework, a major milestone was reached with the release of version 1.6. This gave the community the advantages of modularisation, ability to support multiple faces or client-side technologies, a powerful security framework and a configuration system based on the spring framework which allows a lot of extensibility without impacting the API.

download poster

Geomajas Code Sprint

Also the day after the conference is usually reserved for code sprints in the many open source projects present there. The Geomajas team will be present here with the entire PSC. More information regarding the Code Sprint, can be found at the FOSS4G website:

 http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2010_Code_Sprint#Geomajas_Code_Sprint