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	2nd February 2009, CeBIT: GRID Computing for Geoinformation During CeBIT Dr. Christian Kiehle will represent the GDI-Grid project with a talk on Grid Computing for Geoinformation. 2nd February 2009, Workshop "Grid Technologies for Geospatial Aplications" on AGILE 2009 Dr. Christian Kiehle (lat/lon GmbH, Bonn) and Patrick Maué (University of Münster) will hold the pre conference workshop "Grid Technologies for Geospatial Aplications" during AGILE 2009. This Workshop will deal with possible areas of application for a GRID in SDI environments, as well as already achieved results in the GDI Grid Project. AGILE 2009 will be taking place June, 2nd-5th in Hannover. 16th January 2009, deegree day 2009 - Call for Papers deegree day 2009 is the fourth community event in a row of successful meetings among the deegree user and developer community. Take the chance and submit a proposal for either a short talk or for hosting a tutorial on a special deegree-related topic. We invite speakers presenting innovative and/or business-critical applications based on deegree. Discuss your findings withthe deegree community, the core developers and other interested parties. Presentations will be limited to 20 minutes (plus discussion) while tutorials may take 30 or even 45 minutes. Presentations will be reviewed by two peers and may be submitted in English or German language. Your abstract should not exceed 500 words and must be submitted by March 15th, 2009. Accepted abstracts will be published on the event website incl. your presentation. If you would like to sponsor the conference or if you have any questions on the conference please contact the organising team at deegreeday2009@deegree.org. The on-line submission form and more information on the deegree day can be found at http://deegreeday.deegree.org/. We are looking forward to seeing you in Bonn in May. 9th June 2008, deegree joins OSGeo foundation The deegree Project Steering Committee is pleased to announce that deegree enters the OSGeo incubation process. Incubation is a stepping stone to becoming a full fledged OSGeo project. With this step the deegree project shows again its dedication to the development of standards-based geospatial software and the international community of its users and developers. deegree is a Java Framework offering the main building blocks for Spatial Data Infrastructures. Its entire architecture is developed using standards of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and ISO/TC 211. deegree implements standards including WMS, WFS, WCS, CSW, WCTS, WTS/WPVS and WPS. deegree iGeoPortal standard and portlet edition are the browser-based clients for the mentioned OGC Web Services. deeJUMP, being a collection of OpenJUMP plug-ins, provides a SDI-enabled Desktop-GIS. The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) has been created to support and build the highest-quality open source geospatial software. The foundation's goal is to encourage the use and collaborative development of community-led projects. The official announcement by OSGeo regarding deegree entering OSGeo incubation can be read at: http://www.osgeo.org/node/723 Links: http://www.osgeo.org/node/723 http://www.deegree.org http://www.osgeo.org http://www.osgeo.org/deegree 28th January 2008, OGC-OGF Collaboration Workshop Within the scope of the SDI-Grid research project lat/lon GmbH will present deegree during the 22nd Open Grid Forum (http://www.ogf.org). The main focus of the presentation will be the challenges arising from the integration of Grid technologies in Spatial Data Infrastructures. The talk is integrated in a workshop hosted by the two most prominent standardization organizations for Grid Computing (i.e. Open Grid Forum) and spatial domain (i.e. Open Geospatial Consortium). The workshop will take place on February 26th 2008 in Cambridge, MA, U.S.A. Further details can be found on http://www.ogf.org/gf/event_schedule/index.php?id=1122 23rd January 2008, deegree project publishes 2.1 Demo Releases including official OGC Reference Implementations The Free Software project deegree has released six Demo Releases for free download. The Demo Releases are easy to install software packages and include the official Reference Implementations of the OGC for WMS 1.3, WMS 1.1.1 and WCS 1.0.0. OGC Reference Implementation are 100 % standards-compliant implementations. They are developed with corresponding test suites and serve to "test the tests" as well as to give other implementors insight into a fully compliant software package. The 2.1 Demo Releases of deegree include besides WMS and WCS also a WFS, a Catalogue Service and a Web Perspective View Service for display of 3D geodata. All six Demo Releases are delivered as so called WAR archives, which can be deployed inside a servlet engine like Apache Tomcat within seconds. Links: http://www.deegree.org/ http://cite.opengeospatial.org/ http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wms http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wcs http://www.lat-lon.de 15th January 2008, deegree day 2008: Call For Papers We invite you to take part in the conference either with a presentation or a tutorial. Either should be of general interest to the part icipants of the deegree day and address aspects of the deegree project. Please send an abstract of your article/tutorial in English or Ger man language to deegreedaypapers -- at -- deegree -- dot -- org 14th January 2008, deegree day 2008: First Announcement The third deegree day will be held on June 17th 2008 in Bonn. The conference will be open to developers, users and other interested pe ople. As in the last years this conference will be free of charge. Further Information is available at http://www.deegree.org/deegreeday 7th January 2008, Meet lat/lon at the Open Source Meets Business 2008 lat/lon GmbH will present the Open Source Framework deegree within the "Open Source Meets Business 2008" conference in Nürnberg. The conference hosted by the Heise Verlag features a talk by Dr. Christian Kiehle on January 23rd 2008: "deegree - Open Source Framework for Geoinformation" (http://www.heise.de/fastbin/eventmanager/event_js/2/?event_id=151). The talk will focus on the potential application fields of deegree and its current state of development. Web Processing Service Now Official OGC-Standard Since December 2007 the Web Processing Service (WPS) is an official OGC standard. WPS provides standardized processing capabilities for Spatial Data Infrastructures. This is a another step towards a complete WebGIS. Besides the visualization of maps and the exchange of geodata, the generation of information online can now be achieved. lat/lon GmbH has actively been involved in the specification from the very beginning. Since 2006 lat/lon also provides an implementation of WPS as integral part of the Open Source SDI framework deegree. More details regarding WPS are available through http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wps. 22nd May 2007, Pre-release for WMS, WFS and WCS are ready for testing Dear deegree users, we would like to announce, that the three deegree services WMS, WFS and WCS are revised over the last half year and are now ready to download and testing as deegree v.2.1 demo pre-releases. This applies also to the services iGeoPortal, CS-W and a WPVS including a viewing client, which will follow in a couple of days. Generally installatation and configuration have been improved as well as new features have been added. The formaly problem with the use of proj4 is now solved as this library won't be used anymore in deegree. So go for it and check them out! Just download the package and put the included .war file in the $tomcat_home$/webapps directory and you are done. The preconfigured services test pages are accessible via http://localhost:8080/deegree-wms /deegree-wfs or /deegree-wcs. Please refer the documentation for further information or use the users mailing lists. We very much appreciate to get feedback about your experiences with this new deegree pre-releases. The final release will be ready at the beginning of June. 11th April 2007, deegreeday 2007 - Call for Participation available Please find the Call for Participation for deegreeday 2007 at http://www.deegree.org/deegreeday 18. Oct., Interactive map for display of election results in Flanders uses deegree technology During the Flemish Local and Provincial elections of Sunday 8 October the EDS-Telindus consortium was responsible for the organisation and execution of the ICT support. This was coupled with the necessary technological innovations. The results of the elections for communes, districts and provinces in Flanders from 8th October 2006 are available online. Users can interactively design and query maps using an election atlas making the display very descriptive. During the night of the election the results were fed into the portal server successively, so that up-to-date results were therefore available at all times. lat/lon has developed an interactive map that is integrated into the portal using deegree technology. A special pre-processing step was developed to enable the portal to handle 80 million accesses during the night of the election. This pre-processing step was necessary to allow fast and efficient access to the data that was continually updated. Stability and performance were the most important criteria for choosing deegree as the technical platform of the solution. The election portal shows in an exemplary and catchy way the map-based display of statistical data. The intense and open collaboration between the Flemish Government, the EDS-Telindus project team and its partners such as lat/lon allowed us to implement a very innovative solution. Both in terms of the speed of the data processing, the process simplification, the integrity and services to all parties involved this solution was very effective", concludes Johan Terryn, EDS-Telindus Architect. Links: http://www.binnenland.vlaanderen.be/verkiezingen/verkiezingen2006/applet.html , http://vlaanderenkiest.be/ , http://www.deegree.org deeJUMP as SLD-Editor released The free desktop-GIS deeJUMP supports the creation of layouting rules defined by the OGC Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) Standard. Now a platform-independent SLD-Editor is available. The extension has been ordered by the state enterprise for Geoinformation and Surveying, Hamburg. It will be used within the SDI of the metropolitan region of Hamburg (GDI-MRH). deeJUMP enhances the "Java Unified Mapping Platform" with interfaces for several OGC standards, i.e. accessing OGC Web Map and Web Feature Services. All the extensions were made available through deegree components. The name "deeJUMP" (deegree enhaced JUMP) underlines this strategy. SLD is a XML-based description language for designing map layouts developed by the OGC. deeJUMP supports version 1.0.0 of this standard. Furthermore, the new version has an integrated "extension manager" for administrating plug-ins and extension on-the-fly. All these add-ons will be integrated in the OpenJUMP project and will be available there as well. Further details can be find at http://deegree.sourceforge.net/src/demos.html#deejump, http://www.geoinfo.hamburg.de, http://openjump.org SDI Berlin: Concept describing the future state has been published (in german only!). The concept describing the future state of the SDI in the capital of Germany has passed the project board and been published (in german only). In case of questions, feel free to contact us via info@lat-lon.de.