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WhereCampEU is by far the coolest geo event I know of. I attendet the first WhereCampEU last year in London, which was really fantastic, and this WhereCampEU in Berlin was in my perception even better! The event was awesomely well organized. The venue was perfect, located in one of the coolest neighborhoods of Berlin (Prenzlauer Berg), in the GLS Sprachenschule, a well renovated "Grüderzeitliches" (late 19th century or early 20th century) building I would guess. The sponsored lunch also was of really good quality, never had better food at an conference lunch even the most so called Gala Dinner menues on other conferences would have to hide behind this. ;)
This is a detailed HowTo on deploying a MapProxy instance on Enterprise Linux (CentOS 5.5) for production. I worked this out for the deployment of the CRC806-Database MapProxy instance. It will describe a setup using Apache with FastCGI (mod_fastcgi or mod_fcgid) on a blank CentOS 5.5 amd64, which is also described shortly and more generally (focused on debian/ubuntu) in the MapProxy documentation.
In this tutorial you can find out about, how you get your Sketchup 3D models into the deegree3 WPVS backend.
Be aware, that this is a quick and dirty write down of a CityGMLConverter howto short before the deegreeday, to have a complete WPVS tutorial. This tutorial will be worked out with more detail later on...
The deegree3 DataManager tool will accept your models in VRML or CityGML format. In this tutorial, a method to get deegree3 compilant CityGML out of Sketchup .skp models, will be described.
1 Download some test data
You can find a lot of 3D Model on Googles 3DWarehouse. For this tutorial we will download three buildings of Barcelona.
I choosed the following 3:
This is a short tutorial on how to clip an SRTM DEM file with gdal_translate to a smaller spatial extent provided by an other dataset.
To proceed you will need GDAL installed on your computer. For information on how to obtain and install the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL), see this website. If you are a lucky ubuntu or debian user, you can install GDAL with the following simple command:
sudo apt-get install gdal-bin
1 Download the SRTM data
Go to: http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org/
This is a basic tutorial on rendering OpenStreetMap (OSM) Maps with Maperitve.
1 Maperitive Installation
To install Maperitive on your computer please refere to the openstreetmap wiki.
-> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Maperitive
On this page you will also find valuable additional Info about Maperitive.
2 Get the OpenStreetMap Data
In this tutorial, we will produce a OSM map of Barcelona, Spain.
Downlaod the spain.bz2 OSM file for from: http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/europe/
Extract the bz2 file to a working directory (for example 'Data') in the Maperitive installation folder: ~/Programme/Maperitive/Data
Today I have to be a littlebit political (even if this is completely against my principles, because I normally think politics is at best a joke, but this is how the system works these days).
This is a blog post about installing UNR 10.4 (Lucid) on a Asus t91mt convertible Netbook with GMA500 (poulsbo) drivers and full multitouch touchscreen support.
- Download the UNR distro ISO from http://www.ubuntu.com/netbook/get-ubuntu/download
- Follow the instructions on that site to create an bootable USB drive from the ISO
- Plug the USB drive to your t91mt and boot, press the F2 key on to select the USB drive to boot from.
- Follow the install instructions
2. Install touchscreen with multitouch support
This "Pfingst"(pentecost)-hollyday weekend I attented SIGINT 2010. The event took place at the KOMED event centre located in the MP6 and MP7 buildings of the MediaPark in the centre of Cologne, which is in walking distance from my home. :)
