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<P align=left><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2><SPAN
class=826520508-21012009>Dear freegis list,</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2>The 52°North Geoprocessing
Community is proud to announce the release of the Web Processing Service Version
2.0! This new release contains the following changes and extensions:</P></FONT>
<UL>
<LI><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"><STRONG><FONT size=2>Sextante</FONT><FONT
size=2><SPAN class=826520508-21012009> (<A
href="http://www.sextantegis.com/en/index.htm">http://www.sextantegis.com/en/index.htm</A>)</SPAN>
processes integration</FONT></STRONG><FONT size=2>: the current 52N WPS now
provides more than 220 </FONT></FONT><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2>Sextante
geoalgorithms</FONT><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2><SPAN
class=826520508-21012009> (<A
href="http://forge.osor.eu/plugins/wiki/index.php?id=13&type=g">http://forge.osor.eu/plugins/wiki/index.php?id=13&type=g</A>)</SPAN>
as real WPS processes. Sextante support can easily be enabled/disabled and
does not hinder custom developments of individual processes.</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"><FONT size=2><STRONG>GRID support</STRONG>: any
existing process or algorithm can be reused and distributed in the grid for
parallel execution. This release enables the user to easily outsource
geoprocessing tasks to an external data processing center. It fully supports
the widely adopted UNICORE 6 grid middleware. In addition, it is possible to
support other grid middlewares (e.g. Globus Tookit 4). No administrative
access to the grid infrastrucutre is necessary, only a valid certificate for
accessing the target system is required.</FONT></FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2>i<STRONG>nternal architecture
redesign</STRONG> with new flexible bindings of different internal
datastructures (e.g. Geotools Datamodel) </FONT></LI>
<LI><STRONG><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2>support for (very large)
rasters</FONT></STRONG></LI>
<LI><STRONG><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2>new Geotiff parser and
generator</FONT></STRONG></LI>
<LI><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"><FONT size=2>i<STRONG>mproved asychronous
datahandling + download of stored files</STRONG></FONT></FONT></LI>
<LI><STRONG><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2>several
bugfixes</FONT></STRONG></LI>
<LI><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"><FONT size=2><STRONG>extended Tutorial</STRONG>:
it guides the user through the process of setting up the 52N WPS, creating a
new process, as well as executing and exporting the process. <STRONG>
</STRONG></FONT></FONT></LI></UL>
<P><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2>The 52N Web Processing Service enables the
deployment of geo-processes on the web. It features a pluggable architecture for
processes and data encodings. The implementation is based on the current OpenGIS
specification: 05-007r7. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=826520508-21012009>download </SPAN>tutorial </FONT></FONT><FONT
face="Trebuchet MS" size=2>here</FONT><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"><FONT
size=2><SPAN class=826520508-21012009></SPAN>: </FONT></FONT><A
href="http://52north.org/twiki/bin/viewfile/Processing/52nWebProcessingService?rev=1;filename=WPS_Tutorial.pdf"><FONT
face="Trebuchet MS"
size=2>http://52north.org/twiki/bin/viewfile/Processing/52nWebProcessingService?rev=1;filename=WPS_Tutorial.pdf</FONT></A></P>
<P><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2>download binary distribution </FONT><FONT
face="Trebuchet MS" size=2>here</FONT><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"><FONT
size=2>:<SPAN class=826520508-21012009> <A
href="http://52north.org/index.php?option=com_jdownloads&Itemid=73&task=viewcategory&catid=22">http://52north.org/index.php?option=com_jdownloads&Itemid=73&task=viewcategory&catid=22</A></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2>browse the sources in our svn repository
</FONT><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2>here</FONT><FONT
face="Trebuchet MS"><FONT size=2><SPAN class=826520508-21012009></SPAN>: <A
href="http://52north.org/svn/geoprocessing/main/WPS/trunk/WPS/">http://52north.org/svn/geoprocessing/main/WPS/trunk/WPS/</A></FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2>test instances can be invoked
here:<BR></FONT><A class=moz-txt-link-freetext
title=http://52north.org:8080/wps/WebProcessingService
href="http://52north.org:8080/wps/WebProcessingService"><FONT
face="Trebuchet MS"
size=2>http://52north.org:8080/wps/WebProcessingService</FONT></A><BR><A
class=moz-txt-link-freetext
title=http://geoserver.itc.nl:8080/wps/WebProcessingService
href="http://geoserver.itc.nl:8080/wps/WebProcessingService"><FONT
face="Trebuchet MS"
size=2>http://geoserver.itc.nl:8080/wps/WebProcessingService</FONT></A></P>
<P><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2>more information<SPAN
class=826520508-21012009> can be found</SPAN> here:<SPAN
class=826520508-21012009> </SPAN><A
href="http://52north.org/maven/project-sites/wps/52n-wps-webapp/">http://52north.org/maven/project-sites/wps/52n-wps-webapp/</A></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2><SPAN class=826520508-21012009>best
regards,</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2><SPAN class=826520508-21012009>Ann
Hitchcock</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2>-----<BR><BR>Dipl.-Geogr. Ann
Hitchcock<BR>52°North Initiative for Geospatial Open Source Software
GmbH<BR>Martin-Luther-King-Weg 24<BR>48155
Münster<BR>Germany<BR><BR>Geschäftsführer: Dr. Albert Remke, Dr. Andreas
Wytzisk<BR>Amtsgericht Münster HRB 10849<BR><BR>Tel.: +49 (0)251 74 74-
520<BR>Fax: +49 (0)251 74 74-
530<BR><BR>hitchcock@52north.org<BR>www.52north.org
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