Application development Archives

Defence & Security – Ship tracking and visualization at scale

‐ Posted on 31.05.2021 by simone giannecchini

Dear Reader, In this post we will describe briefly the architecture we put in place and the challenges we had to overcome, to ingest and publish real time ship positions data at scale to allow users to visualize the so called real time maritime picture for world seas and oceans through GeoServer OGC services (WMS, WFS and WPS), finding the correct balance that maximized ingestion performance as well as visualization performance. The challenge The goal of the project is to display for each vessel the latest known position reported in the last 48 hours, enforcing also authorization rights to differentiate...

Digital Mapping – Serving historical cadastrial data for serving with GeoServer

‐ Posted on 11.04.2021 by simone giannecchini

We have been working in the last years with a public administration in Austria in order to publish INSPIRE View Services through GeoServer interfaces as well as clip&ship functionalities for raster data at country scale for aerial imagery, DTM, DSM and historical cadastral data. In this post we discuss the work we did in order to prepare and configure historical cadastral data for serving via GeoServer, using GDAL and Python. The original data consisted of many georeferenced JPEG files coming from digital scans of the original prints, together with shapefiles to roughly delineate the valid areas of the scans. [caption id="attachment_6628"...

Maritime & Logistics – Traffic density maps for ships and cargos

‐ Posted on 28.03.2021 by simone giannecchini

European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) mission is to serve EU maritime interests for a safe, secure, green and competitive maritime sector and act as a reliable and respected point of reference in the maritime sector in Europe and worldwide. EMSA capitalises on its unique know-how to position itself as an essential player in the maritime cluster in Europe and beyond. EMSA works on maritime safety, security, climate, environment and single market issues and tasks, first as a service provider to Member States and the Commission, but also as an innovative and reliable partner and knowledge hub for the European maritime...

Smart Cities – MapStore as the new geOrchestra viewer for Rennes and others

‐ Posted on 23.03.2021 by simone giannecchini

In 2018 the geOrchestra community decided to look for a successor for the brave but aging geographic data viewer, Mapfishapp, developed in 2007. Five members of the community decided to get together in order to fund the needed developpements to have MapStore become the next geOrchestra SDI viewer. These organisations were Rennes Métropole, communauté d’agglomération du Puy-en-Velay, Région Hauts-de-France, Région Grand-Est and Centre Régional Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes de l’Information Géographique (CRAIG). Rennes Métropole was appointed to lead this project. Rennes is a major city in northwest France, in the beautiful region of Bretagne. Rennes Métropole has introduced geOrchestra since 2016 as its main geographic...

Protected: Utilities – Supporting water management at Publiacqua with an Hybrid GIS

‐ Posted on 22.03.2021 by simone giannecchini

Publiacqua is a utility company based in Florence, Italy, which deals with the collection, treatment, conveyance and distribution of drinking water, however, throughout the managed territory, in addition to the distribution of drinking water, the company takes care of the collection of waste water and its purification. One third of the regional population (about 1,305,000 inhabitants) lives in the 45 municipalities served and the main economic activities of Tuscany are located. GeoSolutions has been contracted by Publiacqua in order to build an Hybrid GIS platform that would complement the existing data production platform which is based on proprietary software like...