Prof. Dr.-Ing. Franz-Josef Behr :: Geoinformatik :: Geoinformatics

Customization, Internet, Visualization, Part Internet GIS

Lecture for the Master Course Photogrammetry and Geoinformatics

• The infrastructure of the Internet - The pillars of distributed applications
• Important protocols: HTTP, FTP, CGI, SQL
• client / servers and multi-tier architectures
• Client and servers side technologies, geo-databases
• Raster formats
• Web servers and their configuration - Apache HTTP server
• Map Servers
• OGC specifications for the Internet
• OGC Web map servers and Web feature servers
• XML, XSL, SVG

• For preparation

  • Read: A crash course to Coordinate Systems, Map Projections and Data Formats, by Ilkka Rinne, http://www.spatineo.com/codecamp11/lectures/geomashup_codecamp_geodesy_ilkka_full_version.pdf

• Week 1

  • Read: 20 things, http://www.20thingsilearned.com/en-US/home
  • Read: Web 2.0, and try to understand what's behind our "Internet cloud", http://www.answers.com/topic/web-2-0
  • Listen: FOSS4G 2010 Takeaways and Themes
  • Watch: XAMPP - Make your Computer a Webserver: Apache, PHP, MySQLhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWRB-maTVyM
  • Watch: The State of PostGIS by Paul Ramsey, http://blip.tv/file/2788616

• Week 2

  • Read: The new HTML5 - What Does It All Mean? http://diveintohtml5.org/semantics.html
  • Examine: Using PHP and MySQL to create KML
  • Watch: PHP for Dummies - PHP Tutorial 16: Introduction to MySQLhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM6et57a4fM
  • Examin: Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, http://hot.openstreetmap.org/weblog/
  • Watch: Johnson, Jeffrey; John Crowley & Schulyer Erle. Haiti: Crisis Mapping the Earthquake. GIS Café 2010. http://bit.ly/ha4JFV

• Week 3

  • Read: AFRICA Atlas of Our Changing Environment
  • Read: Some JavaScript Issues
  • Listen: Africa: Atlas of Our Changing Environment, by Peter Gilruth, Director, UNEP Division of Early Warning and Assessment
  • Examin: The strategic efforts of the UN - UN Global Pulse, http://www.unglobalpulse.org/
  • Watch: OGC web services in Mapserver - get familiar with OGC standards in conjunction with one of the most widely used WMS servers, http://tiny.cc/sxpww

• Week 4

  • Read: Open Standards/Importance and Benefits of Open Standards, http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FOSS_Open_Standards/Importance_and_Benefits_of_Open_Standards
  • Listen: Are ESRI and Open Source Solutions the Only Options?
  • Watch: To see how much can be achieved by collaboration: Time lapse photo of the street names in Port Au Prince on Open Street Maps: http://eric.marsden.free.fr/tmp/osm-port-au-prince.mp4
  • Watch: ICCM 2010 - Map Kibera by Jamie Lundine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCsk_ojOa2Y
  • Examin: Technology for Transparency Network, http://transparency.globalvoicesonline.org/

• Lectures
• Practice
• Installation of Apache Webserver
• Configuration and Administration
• Installation and Configuration of UMN MapServer
• Installation of PHP and MySQL / PostGIS
• Loading Geodata into MySQL / PostGIS
• Client-server-Programming using HTML and PHP
• WMS interface to MySQL
• Presentation of geo-data with PHP out of DBMS

• Dave Shea and Molly Holzschlag (2005): The Zen of CSS design - visual enlightenment for the Web. Peachpit Press, 2005 (available in the library)
• Peng, Z. R.., Tsou., M. H. (2003): Internet GIS: Distributed Geographic Information Services for the Internet and Wireless Network. John Wiley and Sons (available in the library)

• Mozilla / Firefox
• Opera
• Web Developer Extension
• Web Developer Extension (deutsche Version)
• Accessibility Extensions for Mozilla/Firefox
• FireBug
• Rendered Source Chart
• Colour Contrast Analyser Firefox Extension
• Web Developer Toolbar & Menu for Opera
• Opera W3-Dev Menu