[Live-demo] EOxServer - an Open Source WMS/WCS for Earth Observations & OSGeo-Live
Stephan Meißl
stephan at meissl.name
Sat May 26 05:51:43 PDT 2012
Brian, Angelos, all,
many thanks for your positive and encouraging comments. Was a pleasure
to work with you on IRC :)
I like your idea of the beta software. The script you mention is
available in our trunk [1] together with a screen shot [2] of what I
achieved so far.
Best regards from Vienna, Europe,
Stephan
[1] http://eoxserver.org/browser/trunk/osgeo-live/install_eoxserver.sh
[2] http://eoxserver.org/browser/trunk/osgeo-live/screenshot.png
On Sat, 2012-05-26 at 12:02 +0300, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was present in the discussion Brian mentions and I agree with him.
> EOxServer seems to be a well organized project and I feel it should be
> included in the disk, initially as beta software for version 6.0. This
> would mean no default installation but installable by the user with
> instructions through a quickstart document.
>
> Stephan already created an installer for the disk and I had a chance to
> test it against alpha2.
>
> Best regards,
> Angelos
>
> On 05/26/2012 03:52 AM, Brian Hamlin wrote:
> > Hi Cameron, OSGeo Live list, all
> >
> > I had the good fortune of working with Stephen briefly today.. I got
> > a quick look at the project source code, and I happen to work with
> > technology similar to some parts of EOxServer, here in California.. so
> > I have some way to understand what I see.
> >
> > The good news is that EOxServer is *small* and the server portion of
> > it can certainly work within our Live parameters for web servers.. My
> > first impression is that EOxServer is an agile and well organized
> > suite of software that simplifies reading, processing and displaying
> > some kinds of raster imagery, onto an OpenLayers web map. The scope is
> > specific, the project appears to be well run.
> >
> > SISS - I had not seen that SISS page before.. perhaps some of those
> > on the cc list are very involved. .
> > I can take a guess .. SISS appears to be more of a certified stack of
> > large software apps/platforms, along with their supported standards -
> > different than a single small app written for a specific purpose..
> > The naming of GML signals to me that SISS is aimed at large
> > institutions and research bodies..
> >
> >
> > best regards from Berkeley, California
> > -Brian
> >
> >
> >
> > On May 25, 2012, at 4:00 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> >
> >> Some of the people involved in Australian/New Zealand Earth
> >> Observations (Andrew, RobA, Bruce, Jim, RobertG, David),
> >>
> >> As per below, Stephan has proposed that EOxServer be included in the
> >> OSGeo-Live DVD distribution, which will provide valuable marketing
> >> reach for EOxServer. I'm forwarding this on to each of you as I'm
> >> interested to understand whether the Australian Bureau of Meteorology
> >> (BOM) and CSIRO are aware of EOxServer. Have you considered using
> >> EOxServer?
> >> What have been your conclusions about such considerations?
> >> How does EOxServer compare against the SISS stack?
> >>
> >> Stephan,
> >> Note that BOM/CSIRO have been investing heavily in what they are
> >> calling the "Spatial Information Services Stack" (SISS), which
> >> consists of:
> >> PostGIS
> >> GeoServer
> >> GeoNetwork
> >> THREDDS
> >> HollowWorld
> >> FullMoon
> >> https://www.seegrid.csiro.au/wiki/Siss/SpatialInformationServicesStackHandbook
> >>
> >>
> >> Stephan,
> >> I'm interested to know whether participants in the EOxServer have
> >> been in touch with programs working on the SISS stack?
> >> Are there any areas for collaboration?
> >> What are the benefits of EOxServer over SISS?
> >>
> >>
> >> On 26/05/2012 1:21 AM, Stephan Meißl wrote:
> >>> On Mon, 2012-04-30 at 21:27 +1000, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> >>>> We are starting to build the 6.0 OSGeo-Live DVD which will be released
> >>>> in September 2012, ready for FOSS4G 2012 as well as many other spatial
> >>>> conferences. This upcoming version will be built upon the stable
> >>>> Xubuntu 12.04 Long Term Support (LTS) release. Documentation will be
> >>>> translated into eight languages, now also including Chinese and
> >>>> Catalan.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Any new applications?
> >>>>
> >>>> We would like to hear from anyone wishing to add new projects to
> >>>> OSGeo-Live, anyone wishing to extend or add extra translations, or
> >>>> anyone who has ideas on how we should shape the upcoming release.
> >>>> ...
> >>> Hi Cameron,
> >>>
> >>> we'd like to propose the inclusion of the EOxServer [1] project in
> >>> OSGeo-Live. Three weeks ago we released our version 0.2.0 and even
> >>> though it has a rather low version number we think it would add some
> >>> value to OSGeo-Live. However, as this is a proposal and we're surely
> >>> not
> >>> aware of all policies we fully understand different opinions. It would
> >>> be great to hear your advice.
> >>>
> >>> Here are the details about EOxServer following the wiki at [2]:
> >>>
> >>> Name: EOxServer
> >>> URL: http://eoxserver.org
> >>> License: MIT
> >>> Description and value added:
> >>>
> >>> EOxServer's mission is to provide an Open Source software framework to
> >>> ease the online provision of big Earth Observation data archives via
> >>> Open Standard services for efficient exploitation by users.
> >>> * Open Source: MIT-style license
> >>> * software framework: Entirely based on Open Source (Python,
> >>> MapServer, Django, GDAL, etc.)
> >>> * ease online provision: Admin GUI and command line data
> >>> registration
> >>> * big Earth Observation data archives: Operators register
> >>> existing
> >>> raster data archives
> >>> * Open Standard services: Open in the sense of freely available;
> >>> Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC); WMS, WCS, EO-WMS, EO-WCS
> >>> * efficient exploitation by users: User defined sub-setting;
> >>> view
> >>> and download
> >>>
> >>> OGC standards: WMS, WCS, EO-WMS, EO-WCS, WCS-T; All versions are
> >>> supported that are supported in MapServer. However, focus is on WCS 2.0
> >>> and WMS 1.3 and their respective Earth Observation (EO) application
> >>> profiles.
> >>>
> >>> Language: Python and a small bit C
> >>>
> >>> Version: 0.2.0 (maybe 0.2.1 if we need to change something for example
> >>> the packaging)
> >>>
> >>> Risk adverse organisations: EOxServer has been partly funded by the
> >>> European Space Agency (ESA) which is currently evaluating the
> >>> operational use. Also some European Commission supported projects are
> >>> evaluating the usage of EOxServer.
> >>>
> >>> User community: There is a user mailing list [3] but not yet much
> >>> traffic. According to the Python package index [4] there have been 96
> >>> downloads in the last three weeks and according to the website
> >>> statistics for eoxserver.org there have been around 3400 unique
> >>> visitors
> >>> with about 7800 visits in 2012.
> >>>
> >>> Developer community: Again we have a mailing list [3] with a bit more
> >>> traffic and nine committers. Please see ohloh [5] for more statistics.
> >>>
> >>> Stable release: Our latest stable release is 0.2.0.
> >>>
> >>> Testing: We make extensive usage of Python's and Django's unit test
> >>> framework and have about 900 tests included in our autotest instance.
> >>> Additionally there are some selenium based tests of the web client and
> >>> admin gui.
> >>>
> >>> Mature code: Again please see ohloh [5] for these statistics.
> >>>
> >>> User interface: In EOxServer we distinct between two user roles:
> >>> operators and users. Operators can register data and control the server
> >>> via the command line and the Django provided admin gui. Users can
> >>> explore the available data via a simple web client based on OpenLayers
> >>> and jQuery.
> >>>
> >>> Presentation at FOSS4G: There have been talks at the German speaking
> >>> FOSSGIS and the recent FOSS4G-CEE conference. Please see the EOxServer
> >>> documentation [6] for a list of presentations.
> >>>
> >>> Volunteers for liaising: Stephan Meissl and Stephan Krause
> >>>
> >>> Application installation: Since EOxServer is a Python application the
> >>> recommended way of installation is using pip. However, since we're
> >>> using
> >>> setuptools we can easily provide .deb packages if needed.
> >>>
> >>> 512 Meg of RAM: Yes, EOxServer can be run in 512MB of memory. However,
> >>> the image rendering will be limited to the capabilities of MapServer
> >>> and
> >>> GDAL.
> >>>
> >>> Disk space: The current base package extracts to 22MB but includes 15MB
> >>> of documentation. Our autotest package which we'd propose for a
> >>> demonstration (see below) extracts to 130MB but 90MB of this are
> >>> expected results for the tests which can be safely ignored. If needed I
> >>> believe we can shrink the test data to under 10MB to still provide a
> >>> meaningful demonstration. Usually we also copy the OGC schemas to speed
> >>> up XML validation but this might not be necessary here. The packages
> >>> are
> >>> available here [7].
> >>>
> >>> Other dataset: We have to explore the already included demonstration
> >>> data but at a first glance we think we need to include some EO data in
> >>> order to show off the capabilities of EOxServer.
> >>>
> >>> Project Overview and Quickstart: Will of course be produced and
> >>> provided.
> >>>
> >>> Windows and/or Mac installers: Not needed.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for your consideration,
> >>> Stephan on behalf of the EOxServer Team
> >>>
> >>> [1] http://eoxserver.org
> >>> [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Apply
> >>> [3] http://eoxserver.org/doc/en/users/mailing_lists.html
> >>> [4] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/EOxServer/
> >>> [5] https://www.ohloh.net/p/eoxserver/
> >>> [6] http://eoxserver.org/doc_trunk/en/users/presentations.html
> >>> [7] http://eoxserver.org/wiki/Download
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
> > ==
> > Brian Hamlin
> > GeoCal-ish
> > OSGeo California Chapter
> > 415-717-4462 cell
> >
> >
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