A RESTful Implementation of Geospatial Web Services

Geoff Zeiss gave a presentation recently at Summercamp which further discusses the points he raised in his article A RESTful Implementation of Geospatial Web Services. A pdf copy of the slides from his presentation have been added to the Table of Contents for the issue the article appears in. The pdf is also available for download as a "Supplementary files" in the right frame of the HTML version of the article. The video from his presentation should be available from the FOSSLC website within the next week or so.

OSBR authors: if you have a presentation that supplements your article, send me a copy of your slides and I'll add them to the OSBR website. A pdf version is preferred--we can also host or point to video and/or audio presentations.

Geospatial Issue en Francais

Thanks to the translation efforts of Jean-Louis Duchesne, most of the articles in the March 2009 issue of the OSBR have been translated to French. The editorial theme for the March issue is "geospatial". The Table of Contents for that issue has been updated so you can easily access either the French or English versions.

If you're aware of any other translations or are interested in translating your article or another article of interest, contact me and I'll add a copy of the translated version to the OSBR website. Please include an attribution text in the translated language indicating who did the translation and if the translation is available elsewhere.

Paul Ramsey's article in French

Directions Magazine has translated and republished Paul Ramsey's in French.

This is a good time to remind both readers and authors that authors retain copyright to their articles and that they are published under the Creative Commons attribution license. This means articles can be republished and remixed (e.g. translated, turned into a whitepaper, etc.), as long as the original author and the OSBR as the original publication source are attributed. We want to see authors' ideas reach the largest audience possible.

March Issue of OSBR Available

The March issue of the Open Source Business Resource is now available in HTML and PDF formats. The theme this month is "Geospatial" and the articles and authors include:

Paul Ramsay, a Senior Consultant with OpenGeo, examines how geospatial open source provides an example of the market challenges of a mid-sized vertical market.

Tyler Mitchell, Executive Director of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation, discusses the factors needed to get open source geospatial products into the hands of users, the value of marketing open source projects, and the advantages provided by an open source ecoystem.

Mark Lucas, a principal scientist at RadiantBlue Technologies Inc., and Scott Bortman, system architect and primary developer for the OMAR web processing system, introduce the OMAR web based system for archival, retrieval, processing, and distribution of geospatial assets.

Andrew Ross, a Director within the Engineering team at Ingres, provides a primer on geospatial technology and discusses some of the lessons learned from Ingres' geospatial open source project.

Haris Kurtagic, General Manager and Founder of SL-King, and Geoff Zeiss, Director of Technology at Autodesk, introduce a standards-based framework for providing geospatial web services.

The editorial theme for the upcoming April issue of the OSBR is "Open APIs" and the guest editor will be Michael Weiss from Carleton University. Contact me if you're interested in a submission.

Upcoming March Issue

The March issue is making good progress towards being published early next week. The theme for March is "Geospatial". Here's a sneak peak at the articles:

Tyler Mitchell, Executive Director of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation, discusses the factors needed to get open source geospatial products into the hands of users, the value of marketing open source projects, and the advantages provided by an open source ecoystem.

Mark Lucas, a principal scientist at RadiantBlue Technologies Inc., and Scott Bortman, system architect and primary developer for the OMAR web processing system, introduce the OMAR web based system for archival, retrieval, processing, and distribution of geospatial assets.

Andrew Ross, a Director within the Engineering team at Ingres, provides a primer on geospatial technology and discusses some of the lessons learned from Ingres' geospatial open source project.

Paul Ramsay, a Senior Consultant with OpenGeo, examines how geospatial open source provides an example of the market challenges of a mid-sized vertical market.