This is my second blog entry after 3 months. (The first one is The Presentations I Gave Until Now) I finally have an internet connection to learn what’s going on in normal life. I have been a soldier for more than 3 months and I still have 52 days to finish my military service.
I just started looking new job opportunities to make a fresh start after finish of my military service. If you have any suggestions or offers, please feel free to contact me via (alper {[att]} geowebdeveloper {[dooot]} com ) By the way, I don’t have any limits for the city that I’ll work.
If you are curious about what I’m doing now, let’s say that I’m doing similar things what I’ve been doing in my normal life. I’m coding web applications (without geo parts) with ASP.NET and C#.
See you until I find a chance to connect internet.
Bye.
This post is related to presentations and workshops that I gave until now. All of them is related to Geo issues such as Google Maps API, Google App Engine, ArcGIS Server and its APIs, Arc2Earth and Microsoft Virtual Earth (aka Bing Maps).
- Life Cycle of Mashups at DSI – Ankara / Turkey – 29 May 2009 (Turkish) (Presentation)
- Enterprise Mashups in the Clouds – Abu Dhabi / United Arab Emirates – 28 Apr 2009 (Presentation)
- Google Maps and Enterprise Mashup Development (Workshop) – Ankara / Turkey – 21 Dec 2008 (Turkish) (Presentation Part-1 Part-2 Part-3 Part-4)
- Developing Web Based GIS Applications from the Google Maps Approach – Ankara / Turkey – 21 Nov 2008 (Turkish) (Presentation)
- (ESRI European User Conf.) Developing Hydrology Mashups with ArcGIS Server 9.3 – London / UK – 30 Oct 2008 (Presentation)
- Developing Web Based GIS Applications with “Google Maps” or “Microsoft Virtual Earth – Trabzon / Turkey – 31 Oct 2007 (Turkish) (Presentation) (Paper)
- (ESRI European User Conf.) Web-based Water Information System Using GIS in Turkey – Stockholm / Sweden – 28 Sep 2007 (Presentation)
Hey everybody,
I will be away from computers, internet and my ordinary life for 6 months due to joining Turkish Air Forces. Some of you may know that military service is obligatory for Turkish Men in Turkey and now it is my turn to finish my duty 🙂 There is also possibility to have a computer related job in army and be connected.
Anyway, please do not wonder about me, see you next year 😀
Bye Bye…
I have been working on ExtMap (previously known as Summit ExtMap) versions and its website. Today I ‘m proud of announcing the three versions of ExtMap and its website. As it is stated, I changed the name of project from Summit ExtMap to ExtMap and the versions are as follows:
- ExtMap JS (ExtJS, Google Maps API and ArcGIS JavaScript Extension for the Google Maps API)
- ExtMap REST (ExtJS, Google Maps API and ArcGIS Server REST API)
- ExtMap OL (ExtJS and OpenLayers)
JS ve REST versions are mostly the same as Summit ExtMap, but OL version has some missing features which will be done soon. The website of ExtMap is also available as
http://www.geowebdeveloper.com/extmap
Please do not hesitate to ask any questions or suggestions related to ExtMap.
Today, I’ve looked at OpenLayers examples and surprised about the new additions. Now, OpenLayers support ArcIMS layers. I know some people are moving to 9.3, but some are still preferring the IMS version due to its simplicity and performance. The best client for IMS is FlashIMS as far as I know, but now you can add your IMS layers to OpenLayers. This enhances the possibilities to add different layers to OpenLayers with IMS.
Examples of OpenLayers with IMS:
1- ArcIMS Example
2- ArcIMS Thematic Example
Thanks to developers of Avencia.
Google announced the new features for Google App Engine (GAE), but the most important one is the support for Java. Java Developers can use GAE for their applications with small changes. (may be big changes due to datastore restrictions 🙂 )
10.000 developers can have an early access to GAE for Java through this link : http://appengine.google.com/promo/java_runtime
There are also additional feautures as :
This new announcement may lead to change in GIS area, like implementing the GeoServer for GAE or other 3th party GIS tools for GAE
Good news for Ext Fans, according to post on Ext JS Blog :
As we approach the three year anniversary of the initial release of Ext, the Ext Team is proud to announce the immediate availability of Ext Core 3.0 beta for download. Ext Core provides a cross-browser consistent API for performing the most common tasks in JavaScript development for web pages. Ext Core is released under a permissive MIT license – there is no cost to use Ext Core – it’s free for everyone.
Ext is mainly focused on desktop like applications on web and its file size is bigger than other libraries, but this file size has various advantages to make an desktop like application. My example for this kind of application is the “Summit ExtMap“. “Summit ExtMap” is a primitive web version of ArcView. If you want to make much more simple application with Ext, it was very hard but now it is very easy with the help of Ext Core.
I’ getting a fan boy of Ext JS day by day 🙂
Alper.
Please forgive me about this late post. I want to thanks everyone who voted for me at ESRI Developer Summit Mashup Challenge. I hope all you like the “Summit ExtMap” mashup framework and use it in your projects.
The reason for this late post is “Summit ExtMap“, because I still working on framework to add some new features. The coming release will be seperated to 3 different versions as
- Summit ExtMap (for ArcGIS JS API Extension for Google Maps)
- Summit ExtMapRest (without ArcGIS JS API, works only with ArcGIS REST API and Google Maps API)
- ExtOL (Ext JS with OpenLayers supporting ArcGIS REST API)
You can choose the version suited for you. Please do not hesitate to ask for questions, new features and bugs.
Alper.
Update 1 : Project name changed from PHPGeoCache to PHPGeoTiles due to a conflict, sorry for change.
Hi Geo Readers,
I am very happy to announce a new Open Source project : PHPGeoTiles
PHPGeoTiles is a tile proxy for Web Map Services (WMS). It creates tiles from WMS to store them on local disk or Google App Engine‘s “BigTable”.
This project is not the first one, there are better implementations of caching. So there is a question that why did i started this project? There are two answers for this question :
- There is no caching mechanism written in PHP (if there are any, please let me know 🙂 )
- There is no caching mechanism store tiles on Google App Engine
I have been coding for 7 years in PHP, so it is a better environment for me than Java, .NET or python. PHP is also very popular on web due to its simplicity. You can easily find hosting on internet. Also I have been using Google App Engine for 3 months to store my tiles. Google App Engine is a kind of “Cloud Computing” environment to use in your applications.
This version is the first one as numbered 0.1. So that testing phase is very limited and its your responsibility to use it in your projects.
I’m very glad to hear your comments, questions or bug reports about the project 🙂
Project Web Page : PHPGeoTiles
Update 2 : Version 0.2 is available, ArcGIS Server REST API to Google App Engine support is added to new version.
Previous year -2008- is very active in the mean of GeoWeb. The previous post, “Thoughts about previous year, 2008“, is about the new technologies or services published in 2008. What about the new year 2009 for the Geoweb?
There are classic posts about the predictions or wish lists appear on blogs and I want to do same 🙂
Wish list/Predictions For Web and Geoweb in 2009 :
- Google App Engine releases GIS extension for BigTable,
- Google App Engine adds PHP/Ruby/Perl support for Apps
- Google App Engine releases a desktop application to transfer data between data formats or servers
- Google Maps adds Street View for Turkey
- Google Maps adds Driving Directions for Turkey
- ESRI releases the Offline Maps for ArcGIS Server
- GMail adds Offline support
- Community/ESRI adds ArcGIS Server API/support for OpenLayers (there are some possibilities from community, but not a fully supported)
These are my wishes or predictions about the Web or Geoweb in 2009, I would like to hear yours if any 🙂