Apply for istSOS ideas within the Google Summer of Code program

Google Summer of Code students application period is now open

Also this year, as an hosted project of OSGeo (Open Source Geospatial Foundation), istSOS welcome students who may want to contribute to the project by implementing new ideas (see istSOS ideas page).

Selected students can receive 5'000 USD from Google to work on the Open Source project !!!

Application rules and references (from OSgeo GSoC Admins)

Google Summer of Code [0] students application period is now open.

The application period closes on March 21st.

Here [1] is a link to all common questions on GSoC, that cover the basics about the program and also specific questions on how to apply and what are the requirements for students and mentors.

OSGeo homepage on Melange shows the application template [2] that students shall use and will contain the direct link for application submission.

Our suggestions to students are summarized as follows: 

• check the eligibility requirements first (see the link to common questions) 
• get inspiration and info from the OSGeo Ideas wiki page [3] 
• if you are new, introduce yourself to the developer team you wish to join 
• register on Melange and submit the application, even as draft, not later than next week. You are able to edit it or withdraw it anytime during the application period.Interested students and mentors are welcome to ask for clarification on the soc list soc@lists.osgeo.org or, if privacy is needed, to the admins directly.. 

Let us remind that you don't need to already be an expert to take part to GSoC - if you are unsure, just ask what are the required skills for a given idea!

[0] GSoC homepage https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014
[1] GSoC FAQ https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2014/help_page
[2] OSGeo application template for students https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2014/osgeo
[3] OSGeo Ideas http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2014_Ideas

istSOS 2.1 released

The istSOS developer Team is proud to announce the release of istSOS 2.1.

The 2.1 release brings numerous features, enhancements and fixes to previous versions, and also guarantee its compliance with OGC SOS version 1.0.0 thanks to the passing of OGC conformance test.

Release Highlights

• passed OGC SOS 1.0 Conformance Test
• new internal scheduler for data acquisition operations
• updated automatic data validation based on setted constraints
• improved interface (REST and HTML) for "virtual procedure" creation, modification, deletion
• new scripts for: data migration from istSOS 1.0, service configuration and raw data aggregation
• minor bugs fixed

About istSOS

istSOS is an OGC SOS server implementation written in Python. istSOS allows for managing and dispatching observations from monitoring sensors according to the Sensor Observation Service standard.
The project provides also a Graphical User Interface that allows for easing the daily operations and a RESTFull Web api for automatizing administration procedures.
istSOS is released under the GPL License, and runs on all major platforms.


Download here

Water Protection Areas Editor

Screenshot - basemap PK25 (c) swisstopo

The Water Protection Areas Editor (pre-release) has been developed in the context of the cantonal government mandate (Division for air, water and soil protection of the Canton Ticino - SPAAS) for management of surveys, boreholes and springs (GESPOS). The aim of this Web Application, is to provide remote editing capabilities to the attributes table of the spatial database.

Screenshot - basemap PK25 (c) swisstopo

The application is mainly composed of a dynamic map visualizing WMS and WFS vector and raster data, a grid view and an extra panel including a legend graphics view, various attributes filtering capabilities, geographic filters (freehand drawn or based on existing boundaries), coordinate search and user settings.
Selections, filtering and search are graphically represented within the map and the grid view with an elegant adoption of the mvc pattern.

Screenshot - basemap PK25 (c) swisstopo

The Water Protection Areas Editor is entirely developed with Open Source Software and relies on OGC Standards for client-server interaction.

Unfortunately this app interact with some sensible data, so it is not freely accessible to unauthorized humans.

istSOS passed OGC SOS 1.0 Conformance Test

istSOS Dev Team is proud to announce that istSOS 2.1 (currently trunk version and available by end of January 2014) passed the "Compliance test suite for Sensor Observation Service (SOS) 1.0" provided by the web testing facility by OGC Compliance Program (CITE).

Thanks to this test a minor compliance issues were resolved, in particular Exception reports, SensorML mandatory element and time zone format have been patched.

Geoportal HELI-DEM now online

The geoportal HELI_DEM has been performed in the framework of HELI-DEM project, INTERREG 

project whose main aim was the elaboration of a cross-border digital terrain model between Italy and Switzerland. 

The geoportal, based entirely on OGC standard web services (WFS, WCS, WMS, WPS) orchestration 

and open-source technologies, provides both the HELI-DEM model access and different real-time capabilities of geospatial processing to obtain derivative products such as slope and aspect maps, level contours, elevation profiles and basin morphometric parameters. 

Try it on: https://geoservice.ist.supsi.ch/helidem