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OpenStreetMap : State of The Map 2010 synopsis

July 20th, 2010 by François Van der Biest

This year, several important announcements were made at the OpenStreetMap community conference. AOL Local, through MapQuest, is going to invest USD 1 million in OSM in order to improve road map coverage in the US, while Bing is offering the application to display the OSM map. These announcements demonstrate the credibility of the OpenStreetMap project towards major international players of the Internet industry.

In the community, "lightning talks" and informal discussions with participants confirm a rich intellectual effervescence.

Thanks to the availability of Open Source data, numerous innovative projects emerged such as WheelMap or OpenTrailView .

From a very interesting study from UCL presented by Muki Haklay, we learn that more than half of the OSM contributors have a former experience in GIS and that more than two-third contribute to software or Open Source projects (Wikipedia).

Finally, the community is extremely aware of possible obstacles (tag management, data quality, …) and these subjects undergo active thinking.

On the technical level, the variety of initiatives was noticeable (minutely diffs, cloud computing, software optimizations …), resulting from the existence of difficulties when trying to develop services around OSM data and infrastructure. The difficulties are mostly related to the increasing data volume, which requires a growing expertise level.

The nonconformist organization of the conference with an auction sale , a song contest , and a tune of "Highway to Hell "is the evidence that OpenStreetMap really is a fun projet!

Formations OpenERP, semestre 2 2010

July 19th, 2010 by Stéphanie Debayle

Les nouvelles dates des formations OpenERP dispensées par notre groupe d’experts sont disponibles ici !

OpenStreetMap : bilan de State of The Map 2010

July 16th, 2010 by François Van der Biest

La conférence annuelle de la communauté OpenStreetMap a vu cette année plusieurs annonces importantes. AOL Local, à travers MapQuest, va investir 1 million de dollars dans OSM pour améliorer la couverture routière aux USA, tandis que le moteur de recherche Bing va offrir la possibilité d’afficher la carte OSM d’ici peu. On ne peut que se féliciter de ces annonces qui montrent à quel point le projet OpenStreetMap devient crédible aux yeux des plus grands acteurs de l’internet mondial.

Au niveau communautaire, on relèvera le bouillonnement intellectuel perceptible grâce aux nombreux "lightning talks" auxquels nous avons pu assister, mais également lors de discussions informelles avec les participants.
La disponibilité de données libres a permis l’émergence d’un grand nombre de projets innovants, tels que WheelMap , ou encore OpenTrailView .
Une très intéressante étude académique de l’UCL, présentée par Muki Haklay, a permis de dresser un portrait de la communauté des "mappers", où l’on apprend que plus de la moitié des contributeurs OSM ont une expérience préalable en SIG et que plus des deux tiers contribuent également à d’autres projets de logiciels ou données libres (Wikipedia).
Enfin, on notera que la communauté est extrêmement consciente des écueils possibles et qu’elle se donne le temps d’y réfléchir (tagging, qualité des données, …).

Sur le plan technique, on a pu constater la diversité des initiatives (minutely diffs, cloud computing, optimisations logicielles …) pour pallier aux difficultés rencontrées lorsque l’on cherche à développer des services autour des données et de l’infrastructure OSM. Les difficultés sont essentiellement liées à la taille croissante du volume des données, ce qui demande un niveau d’expertise croissant.

Pour finir, il faut souligner combien cette conférence est non conformiste et enthousiasmante. On a pu en effet pu assister à une vente aux enchères , un concours de chanson , et même un rafraîchissant "Highway to Hell ". OpenStreetMap est vraiment un projet "Fun".

Un compte-rendu plus détaillé est mis à disposition à cette adresse .

WebKit Report : How to deal with header

July 2nd, 2010 by Joël Grand-Guillaume

Hi,

Just a little post on our c2c_webkit_report in order to explain how to deal with header and footer in this new report system. Have a look at our new video here:

files.me.com/nbessi/037luj.mov

We want to thank you all for your numerous feed-backs, contributions and comments on this module. It seems that it already has a great success :) ! OpenERP also gave me its agreement to include it as a standard module for v6.0 : what a great news!

Regards,

Joël Grand-Guillaume

WebKit Report : system revolution for OpenERP

June 26th, 2010 by Joël Grand-Guillaume

Dear community and partners,

At the last Community & Partners meeting, Camptocamp participated to several workshops on various topics. One of them was on the reporting system of OpenERP; following this workshop, some conclusions have been drawn on which direction to follow. Mainly, we though that we needed a more powerful engine than RML (for better performance) as well as something more easy to use (to reduce costs).

Today, we do have such a solution, including all the requirements discussed together back in March !!

Camptocamp Business Solutions’ team is proud to announce the release of OpenERP WebKit Report as a module for the V5.0 of OpenERP. You can find it in the extra-addons branch as the module called "c2c_webkit_report". This newly released module includes the following main features:

  • OpenERP Compliant (translation, formatLang, pdf/html output)
  • HTML & CSS-3 Reports definition
  • Multi-plateform (Windows, Linux, OS X)
  • Multi-header support with full image support (per report and/or per company)
  • Multi-company compliant
  • Full JavaScript support
  • Easy paper-size, margin and format selection
  • And more : Raw HTML debugger, futur full integrated WYSIWYG editor, …

Watch the live demo here: http://files.me.com/nbessi/06n92k.mov

I want to thank all the participants for their contributions and the constructive work that has been done for drafting the specifications, particularly Nicolas Bessi who created this amazing module!

We are going to work hand-in-hand with OpenERP SA to integrate this new report engine into the core of the future version 6.0 of OpenERP. We hope, you will enjoy it!

Best regards,

Joël Grand-Guillaume

Chef de Projet ERP et Analyste Fonctionnel

June 24th, 2010 by Stéphanie Debayle

Français

Nous recherchons pour compléter notre équipe «Business Solutions» un/une Chef de projet ERP et Analyste Fonctionnel.

En tant que chef de projet et analyste fonctionnel, vous êtes intéressé par la gestion d’entreprise. Vous avez de l’expérience dans les processus financiers et dans l’intégration de logiciels. De contact facile, vous avez la capacité de travailler en équipe et de comprendre les besoins des clients.

Plus sur le poste ici !

English

Camptocamp «Business Solutions» team is looking for an ERP Project Manager and Functional Analyst.

As an ERP project manager and functional analyst, you are interested in business management. You have experience in financial processes and software integration.

Outgoing, you are able to work in a team and to understand clients’ needs.

More on the position here !

State of the Map 2010

June 11th, 2010 by François Van der Biest

French

Camptocamp participera à la conférence annuelle OpenStreetMap qui se tiendra à Gérone (Espagne) du 9 au 11 juillet. Le programme de ces trois jours s’annonce déjà passionnant…

Retrouvez sur place Yves Jacolin, Pierre Mauduit et François Van Der Biest.
Vous n’êtes pas encore inscrits ? Faites le vite … ici !

English

Camptocamp will participate to the OpenStreetMap annual conference in Girona (Spain) from July 9 to 11. The program of these three days is very promising!

Come and meet Yves Jacolin, Pierre Mauduit and François Van Der Biest.

Not yet registered? Please go here !

GeoBI initiative : Camptocamp participates in the new international Open Source initiative on Location Intelligence

June 10th, 2010 by Stéphanie Debayle

Press Release, Lausanne – June 10th, 2010 – Camptocamp announces its participation in the GeoBI initiative, a new international initiative focused on Location Intelligence, available at www.geobi.org .

The term Location Intelligence refers to all those processes, technologies, applications and practices capable to combine spatial data (Geographical Information System) with business data (Business Intelligence), in order to gain critical insights, to better support decision-making processes and to optimize business activities. In other words, Location Intelligence allows to connect various types of information to cartographical data, to locate them and to consequently increase the value of the existing information systems.

The initiative aims to aggregate companies, organizations, project communities and individuals into an open community aiming to foster the cooperation in the Location Intelligence domain and to support research activities. This allows to convert the results into innovative enterprise applications as well as to enrich and integrate the existing Open Source GIS and BI solutions, through the adoption of open standards.

Membership is open to anyone who shares the initiative vision and organization. Besides Camptocamp, charter member , the initiative members include the Italian companies Engineering Group and Inova Open Solutions, the French company Altic, the Canadian company Spatialytics and the SESAR research lab, Information Technology Department, University of Milan.

The initiative promotes the creation of a network of support services, according to which the initiative members provide professional support to the developed solutions .

Together with Altic and other partners, Camptocamp is already involved in GEO+ , a Web 2.0 research project. GEO+’s goal is to develop an open source platform allowing for content management, indexation and data analysis combined with spatial data. The project will focus in particular on the connection between Mapfish and open source Business Intelligence solutions.

Puppetcamp Europe 2010 (feed-back)

June 1st, 2010 by Mathieu Bornoz

This first Puppetcamp in Europe was very interesting and well organized. The combination of formal presentations in the morning and open sessions in the afternoon was really a good idea.

This event started by the talk of Luke Kanies , CEO of Puppet Labs (the company behind Puppet); the original author of Puppet particularly highlighted the stability of Puppet and announced the imminent release of "Rowlf " which will be directly stamped version 2.6! This version will also offer new features such as class parameters, the complete migration to REST and many other great improvements.

Puppet Labs has also officially launched the Puppet Forge which is a Central Repository for Puppet Modules open to the community. Creating "good modules" was one of the topics discussed during an open session and was also covered by the presentation of Alessandro Franceschi . This talk also identified the collections of modules available, including the ones provided by Camptocamp on Github and also the ones already posted on the Puppet Forge.

We also appreciated the aspects related to Change Management presented By Jeff McCune and also the open session on Test Driven Deployment combining mcollective and cucumber .

A big thanks to all Puppetlovers for these two exciting days!

GIS/SIT 2010, Forum Suisse de la Géoinformation le 16 et 18 juin 2010 à l’Université Zurich-Irchel

May 31st, 2010 by Stéphanie Debayle

Le forum GIS/SIT débutera le mercredi 16 juin 2010 avec les workshops sur des sujets actuels et intéressants tous autour du SIG et des géoinformations. Du jeudi à vendredi, l’exposition, qui s’étend sur plus de 300m2, vous invite à partager des échanges et visions intéressants avec les différents fournisseurs du secteur SIG. Le programme du forum est disponible ici .

Camptocamp est heureux de participer à ce forum à grands thèmes !

Dans le cadre du séminaire "Géoservices : architectures, solutions, avantages" (auditorium 55), Claude Philipona, Directeur de Camptocamp, présentera le jeudi 17 juin 2010 de 11:00 à 11:30 " Le Cloud computing au service du Webmapping à haute disponibilité".

Camptocamp attend votre visite au stand 404 !