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<div><span class="734575715-01032006"><font size="2"><font face="Arial">Dear
FreeGIS list,<br>
<br>
The 52N Sensor Observation Service version 2-0<span
class="870123315-16052006">1</span>-00 has successfully completed
quality assurance testing. It implements the core profile of the SOS
draft implementation specification comprising the following operations:</font></font></span></div>
<ul>
<font size="2"> <li><font face="Arial"><span
class="734575715-01032006">GetCapabilities - returns service metadata</span>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Arial"><span class="734575715-01032006">GetObservation
- returns observations for time periods and instances encoded in
Observation&Measurements (O&M)</span> </font> </li>
<li><font face="Arial"><span class="734575715-01032006">Describe
Sensor - returns a SensorML encoded description of the sensor system</span></font></li>
</font>
</ul>
<div><span class="734575715-01032006"><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><span
class="870123315-16052006">Its new features are:</span></font></font></span></div>
<ul>
<font size="2"> <li><span class="734575715-01032006"><font
face="Arial"><span class="870123315-16052006">the DBFeeder framework:
supports the SOS provider by integratiing observations into the
underlying SOS data base.<br>
</span></font></span></li>
<li><span class="734575715-01032006"><font face="Arial"><span
class="870123315-16052006">support of PostgreSQL 8.1</span></font></span></li>
<li><span class="734575715-01032006"><font face="Arial"><span
class="870123315-16052006">improved memory handling: allows larger
Observation Collections requests. </span></font></span><font size="2"><span
class="734575715-01032006"><font face="Arial"><span
class="870123315-16052006">Up to 6000 Observations (approximately 6MB
XML)were requested with the standard configuration of the Tomcat</span></font></span></font><span
class="734575715-01032006"><font face="Arial"><span
class="870123315-16052006"> on our test server (1,5 GB RAM, 1,1 GHz).
The same test with the former release yielded only 3000 observations.</span></font></span></li>
</font>
</ul>
<div><font size="2"><font size="+0"><span class="734575715-01032006"></span></font></font><span
style="" lang="EN-GB"></span><br>
<font size="2"><font size="+0"><span class="734575715-01032006"><font
face="Arial" size="2">Download the zipped source code files </font></span></font></font><span
class="734575715-01032006"><font size="2"><font size="+0"><font
face="Arial" size="2"> (including an ant build script and a detailed
installation guide) at:<br>
</font></font></font></span></div>
<div><font size="2"><font size="+0"><a
href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fifty-two-north/52N-SOS-v2-01-00.zip?download"><font
face="Arial" size="2">http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=122215&package_id=154686&release_id=417253</font></a><br>
<br>
</font></font></div>
<font size="2"><font size="+0"><span class="734575715-01032006"><font
face="Arial" size="2">Please direct comments and inquiries to
52°North's Working Group SWE mailing list (</font></span></font></font><span
style="" lang="EN-GB"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.52north.org/mailman/listinfo/swe">http://www.52north.org/mailman/listinfo/swe</a>)
</span><font size="2"><font size="+0"><span class="734575715-01032006"><font
face="Arial" size="2">or contact Alexander Walkowski </font></span></font></font><span
style="" lang="EN-GB">(<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:walkowski@52north.org">walkowski@52north.org</a>).</span>
<span class="734575715-01032006"></span><font size="2"><font size="+0">
</font></font>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Dipl.-Geogr. Ann Hitchcock
con terra GmbH
Martin-Luther-King-Weg 24
48155 Münster
Germany
Tel: +49 (0)251 7474 520
Fax: +49 (0)251 7474 100
email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:hitchcock@conterra.de">hitchcock@conterra.de</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.conterra.de">http://www.conterra.de</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.52north.org">http://www.52north.org</a>
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