Integrating istSOS as a data store in MapMint
Introduction
MapMint is a Geographic Information System (GIS) software running on a web server made to facilitate the administration of a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI). Also a modular and extensible WEB-GIS application generator. Behind the MapMint solution is the massive usage of OGC Web Services and making all processing in the solution available as WPS services using the ZOO-Project. Yet it is not capable of grabbing sensor data and publishing. On the other hand, istSOS which is an OGC SOS server implementation written in Python allows for managing and dispatch observations from monitoring sensors according to the Sensor Observation Service standard.
Idea
The idea of integrating istSOS as a data store in MapMint is able to provide a platform for data visualization which can be used as near real time, analysis such as interpolation analysis, conversion such as vector and raster data, and publish as maps and OGS standard services such as WMS, WFS,WMTS and WPS by utilizing the data from istSOS. The provided datasets and services (WMTS,WMS, etc) can be deploy within MapMint or for any other software such as GRASS GIS to enable new processing capabilities.
Tentative Schedule
| Time frame | Task |
|---|---|
| May 5 - 29 2017 | Setup servers and interact with the community |
| May 30 - June 15 2017 | Working with sensors and istSOS |
| June 16 - July 2 2017 | Adding sensor data to MapMint |
| July 2 - 17 2017 | Developing an interface to handle sensor data in Mapmint |
| July 17 - 24 2017 | Identifying and Implementing a service to process the data |
| July 24 - August 2017 | Finalize MapMint SOS implementation |
| August 2 - 10 2017 | Identify the bugs and fix |
| August 10 - 20 2017 | Finalize the documentation work and publish all the codes |
| August 21 - 29 2017 | Finalize all the work and submitting them |
Weekly Reports
Week 1
May 4 - May 14
- What did you get done this week?
I have setup istSOS in my local machine. And I tried to visualize the data on istSOS from arduino. I used dht11 sensor. Finally I could get the data (humidity and temperature) on istSOS from arduino.
- What do you plan on doing next week?
I have already setup mapmint but there were few issues. So I will setup it again and report if any issue occurred.
- Are you blocked on anything?
no
Student's Biography
Niroshan Bandara, is a student at Osaka City University, Japan. He is following a Master programme on Urban Information study at Graduate School of Creative Cities. And He completed Bachelor degree in Town and Country Planning, specialized on Planning technology. Basically, His Master research is focusing on Crowdsourced and sensor based geospatial data integration with web based GIS services. He is interested in web technologies, sensor and crowdsource geographic data visualization and processing techniques. His past and current work highly focuses on FOSS4G applications and as a result he has realized importance of FOSS4G. Therefore, he wants improve and extend his knowledge in FOSS4G development. So, He take the opportunity of joining GSoC 2017. GitHub repositories can be found at https://github.com/niroshansb/