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BIMserver Release 1.0 :o)

Posted by Henri Willox on 6 February 2011 in English.

After 5 RC BIMserver (Building Information Modelserver) 1.0 is out :o)

From their blog:

A small selection of stuff we are proud of:

‘Intelligent’ merging of IFC data;
User specific RSS feeds;
Geolocate your BIM project using openstreetmap;
Easier Google Earth link;
More query and filter options;
Better and more intuitive ‘early warning system’ (for concurrent engineering);
Enhanced user control and authentication;
ifcZIP upload and download;
Tested for ‘BIM in the Cloud’;
More options for fine-tuning the configuration;
Lots of improvement on the webservice interfaces;
Improved security;
WebGL browser based IFC viewer (very beta);
Better and more monitoring and logging of the server (for administrators);
More BIM and GIS integration (geoBIM);
Automatic e-mail on clashdetection of your models;
COBie export;

* http://bimserver.org/
* http://code.google.com/p/bimserver/
* http://bimserver.org/blog/2011/02/04/release-1-0-stable/

Henri Willox
http://lac-conakry.blogspot.com/

ArcGIS Editor for OpenStreetMap updated

Posted by Henri Willox on 4 February 2011 in English.

ArcGIS Editor for OpenStreetMap 1.1 Beta 3 is out :o)

From the site: "The ArcGIS Editor for OpenStreetMap is designed to help ArcGIS Desktop 10 users to become an active member in the growing community of users building an open and freely available database of geographic data.

The provided tools allow you to download data from the OSM servers and store it locally in a geodatabase. You can then use the familiar editing environment of ArcGIS Desktop to create, modify, or delete data. Once you are done editing, you can post back the edit changes to OSM to make them available to all OSM users."

http://esriosmeditor.codeplex.com/

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http://lac-conakry.blogspot.com/

Open JavaScript SDK

Posted by Henri Willox on 26 January 2011 in English.

And another one :o)

"OpenStreetMap has already changed the face of mapping, and it continued its march on today as a potential main data source for a real-time navigation application. Because OSM is to be taken seriously, we are proud to release our very first Open SDK!

This toolkit grabs the Open tiles created from OpenStreetMap and allows developers to add interactivity to their maps, generate Points of Interests, produce advanced routing between two or more points, do a Nominatim search, plus numerous other features found on http://open.mapquestapi.com/sdk/js/v6.1.0/.

To get started with your own mapping application, simply follow the Basic Map documentation, then spruce it up by adding Controls and POIs/InfoWindows. Like all of MapQuest’s other Open Initiatives, an AppKey is not necessary and you’ll be able to dive directly into the SDK."

Open Aerial Tiles

Posted by Henri Willox on 26 January 2011 in English.

Another announce from MapQuest:

"currently offers global imagery at a 30-meter resolution and up to 1-meter for the United States. The service itself is still very much in its early stages as we continue to augment the initial dataset with more and improved data.

However, if you’d like to begin using the Open Aerial Tiles now or in the early stages, the process is very similar to using OpenStreetMap tiles. The only change needed would be the tile URLs."

OpenStreetMap Tile URL: http://a.tile.openstreetmap.org/8/126/87.png
MapQuest-OSM Tile URL: http://otile1.mqcdn.com/tiles/1.0.0/osm/8/126/87.png
MapQuest-Open Aerial Tiles URL: http://oatile1.mqcdn.com/naip/8/126/87.png

Android: Geopaparazzi 1.2 free :o)

Posted by Henri Willox on 29 December 2010 in English.

With the release of the version 2.0.0, HydroloGIS offer freely the 1.2 version :o)

From their blog: "With this release we also decided to release the old version for free in the market, so if you search for geopaparazzi or geopaparazzi 1, the free version should appear ready to be installed."

* http://jgrasstechtips.blogspot.com/2010/12/geopaparazzi-2-released.html
* http://lac-conakry.blogspot.com/2010/12/android-geopaparazzi-12-gratuit-o.html

Merkaartor 0.17.0 :o)

Posted by Henri Willox on 27 December 2010 in English.

Merkaartor 0.17 is out :o)

- French Cadastre plugin
- Bing Maps plugin
- GDAL raster background plugin
- Printing and exporting to PDF/raster/SVG
- Extrude interaction for ways
- Filter system
- Toolbar editor (create/modify tollbars)
- Allow to align background image with +pan
- When opening/importing, always fallback to GDAL if available. Allows to open most GDAL supported geomtery files
- Styles : allow to texture areas with an icon
- Auto-add "source" tag when drawing over a background map; define the value in the WMS and TMS editors
- .... :o))

* http://merkaartor.be/news/24
* http://lac-conakry.blogspot.com/2010/12/merkaartor-017-o.html

ArcGIS Editor for OpenStreetMap

Posted by Henri Willox on 11 December 2010 in English.

ArcGIS Editor for OpenStreetMap 1.1 Beta 1 is out :o)

http://esriosmeditor.codeplex.com/releases/view/57313

- Multi-part geometries are now supported. Homogeneous relations (consisting of only lines or only polygons) are converted into the appropriate multi-part geometry. Mixed relations and super relation are maintained and tracked in the stand-alone relation table

- The underlying editing logic has changed. As opposed to tracking the editing changes upon "Save edit" or "Stop edit" the changes are tracked as soon as the edit sketch is completed. This might take 1 or 2 seconds, please be patient.