Black Country Augmented Reality

The Black Country History Layar is now available, delivering geocoded archives and museums data using CollectionsBase AR Download Today

Hybrid Text and Geospatial Indexing

CollectionsBase 2012: Now with Web Map Server, Complex Geometric Feature Server and Augmented Reality layers. Geospatial Indexing Details

Augmented Reality and HER

Panorama1630 was supported by an Augmented Reality application using data from Shropshire's Historic Environment Record. QR codes were used in the gallery and museums.

Location Based Applications, Games and Social Networks

We’re building location based social networking applications using the following tools:

GeoServer is an open source software server written in Java that allows users to share and edit geospatial data. Designed for interoperability, it publishes data from any major spatial data source using open standards.

Being a community-driven project, GeoServer is developed, tested, and supported by a diverse group of individuals and organizations from around the world.

GeoServer is the reference implementation of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Feature Service (WFS) and Web Coverage Service (WCS) standards, as well as a high performance certified compliant Web Map Service (WMS). GeoServer forms a core component of the Geospatial Web.

We run GeoServer over Amazon EC2 instances.

Local lucene is an effort to provide geographical search capibilities to Java Lucene.
Local lucene is not a search engine in itself but the libaries and capabilieties to create one, Lucene provides the text searching capibilities and locallucene provides the geographical nature.

OS OpenSpace is built upon an Open Source library called OpenLayers. The OpenLayers project provides a standard open mapping JavaScript framework, supported by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo).

Layar

We are the first dedicated Layar developers for the Heritage Augmented Reality industry, developing Panorama1630 in 2010 using Layer 3.  Since that time we have built a number of Layer based HeritageAR applications using our dynamic geospatial heritage data indexing.  We are currently indexing over 48,000 geocoded archive, museum and local history records into our Augmented Reality Layar enabled system CollectionsBase.  Unlike most Layar applications ours is dynamic: the layar data can change in real time depending on the user’s search and use context.

ArchAlert

Combining Local SOLR, GeoServer and OS OpenSpace we’ve created a public facing Archaeology Alert System to meet PPS5