Parsing NOAA sources 2 Comments

4:26 pm on January 4, 2010 ,

For those that prefer Ruby over Java, I have good news: Sensorpedia scripts can now be written using JRuby. It uses the same API as the Java interface (both a positive and negative), so now you’ll be able to parse data sources using the convenience of Ruby regular expressions. In order to test this, I [...]

Virtual Sensor Nodes Comment

1:12 pm on November 13, 2009 ,

In a previous blog post, I discussed the idea of a virtual scripting layer that operated over the Sensorpedia data sources. Each data source, instead of just exposing links to data, will also expose a data-oriented programming interface. Users will be able to write and upload scripts that can transform raw data and communicate with [...]

Programming tools for Sensorpedia Comment

7:36 pm on October 11, 2009 ,

Besides automatically discovering new sensor data, I’m also interested in what to do after we get the data into Sensorpedia. Right now users interact with Sensorpedia via the web mapping tool. Users type in a search term that matches the title, textual description, or user-supplied tags and generates a list of geo-indexed placemarkers. This is [...]