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Playing with Ordnance Survey's ZoomStack and a new Project
Over the weekend I was playing around with the Ordnance Survey’s new Zoomstack and it is very nice. But I really wanted to see what it looked like in GeoServer with Charley Glynn’s nice SLDs, but then…
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The tale of a vector tile benchmark
At the beginning there was a chat with @ortelius outside the Namenlos bar at FOSS4G in Bonn. Jef insisted in doing a benchmark of MVT server implementations at the next FOSS4G. With my experience from…
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Movement data in GIS #14: updates from GI_Forum 2018
Last week, I traveled to Salzburg to attend the 30th AGIT conference and co-located English-speaking GI_Forum. Like in previous year, there were a lot of mobility and transportation research related p…
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Scalable spatial vector data processing
Working with movement data analysis, I’ve banged my head against performance issues every once in a while. For example, PostgreSQL – and therefore PostGIS – run queries in a single thread of execution…
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One click away from GeoNode with Rancher and Docker
Anyone who has had the chance to install GeoNode knows that setting it up means having to deal with a whole stack of software components. PostgreSQL/PostGIS, Geoserver, Celery, RabbitMQ, ElasticSearch…
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FOSS4G UK, a personal view
Last week James Milner and his organising committee staged a brilliant FOSS4G UK at the Geovation Hub. For the first time in ages I wasn’t organising a FOSS4G (well I did help with some financial bits…
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Verslag: OSGeo.nl Dag 2017
De zesde OSGeo.nl Dag 2017 vond plaats op 22 November 2017 op de GeoBuzz in Den Bosch. Onder het motto “Samenwerking Versnelt” haakten wij in bij het GeoBuzz-thema: “Geo Versnelt”. Hieronder een kort…
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Gerando pontos aleatórios dentro de uma geometria
Você sabia que PostGIS 2.3 apresentava uma função muito útil para gerar pontos dentro de uma área de polígono ou multi-polígono? A função ST_GeneratePoints converte um polígono ou multi-polígono em um…
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Tales from Boston – the FOSS4G TGP
This is my last post on the 2018 FOSS4G Travel Grant Programme (but you can look forward to several more about the 2019 TGP). I wanted to share some of the feedback that I have received from the TGP r…
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Getting started with GeoMesa using Geodocker
In a previous post, I showed how to use docker to run a single application (GeoServer) in a container and connect to it from your local QGIS install. Today’s post is about running a whole bunch of con…
