[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo-Live 5.0 released - the Open Source Geospatial DVD

[Cameron Shorter]

Version 5.0 of the OSGeo-Live GIS software collection 
<http://live.osgeo.org> has been released.

OSGeo-Live is a self-contained bootable DVD, USB flash drive and Virtual 
Machine based upon Ubuntu Linux that is pre-configured with a wide 
variety of robust open source geospatial software.

The applications can be trialled without installing anything on your 
computer, simply by booting the computer from the DVD or USB drive.

A DVD or USB of OSGeo-Live is being distributed to every delegate at the 
upcoming international conference for Free and Open Source Software, 
http://2011.foss4g.org <http://2011.foss4g.org/>.

Homepage: http://live.osgeo.org <http://live.osgeo.org/>


    Highlights

    * 47 Quality GeoSpatial Open Source applications installed and
      pre-configured
    * Quality free world maps
    * One page overviews and quick starts for all applications
    * Overviews of key OGC standards
    * Translations for Greek, German, Polish, Spanish and Japanese


    Contents

Browser Clients

    * OpenLayers 2.10 - Browser GIS Client
    * Geomajas - 1.8 Browser GIS Client
    * Mapbender 2.7.2 - Geoportal Framework
    * MapFish 2.2 - Web Mapping Framework
    * GeoMoose 2.4 - Web GIS Portal

Crisis Management

    * Sahana Eden 0.5.5 - Disaster management
    * Ushahidi 2.1 - Mapping and Timeline for events

Databases

    * PostGIS 1.5 - Spatial Database
    * SpatiaLite 2.3.1 / 2.4 beta - Lightweight Database
    * Rasdaman 8.2 - Multi-Dimensional Raster Database
    * pgRouting 1.05 - Routing for PostGIS

Desktop GIS

    * Quantum GIS (QGIS) 1.7.0
    * GRASS GIS 6.4.1
    * gvSIG Desktop 1.11
    * User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) 1.2.2
    * Kosmo Desktop 2.0.1
    * OpenJUMP GIS 1.4.0.1
    * SAGA 2.0.7
    * OSSIM 1.8.6 - Image Processing
    * Geopublisher 1.7 - Catalogue
    * AtlasStyler 1.7 - Style Editor
    * osgEarth 2.0 - 3D Terrain Rendering

Navigation and Maps

    * GpsDrive 2.11 - GPS Navigation
    * Marble 1.0.2 - Spinning Globe
    * OpenCPN 2.5.0 - Marine GPS Chartplotter
    * OpenStreetMap Tools - JOSM, Merkaartor, Gosmore, Osmarender
    * Prune 12 - View, Edit and Convert GPS Tracks
    * Viking 9.9.94 - GPS Data Analysis and Viewer
    * zyGrib 5.0 - Weather Forecast Maps

Spatial Tools

    * GeoKettle 2.0-RC1 - ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) Tool
    * GDAL/OGR 1.8.0 - GeoSpatial Data Translation Tools
    * GMT 4.5.2 - Cartographic Rendering
    * Mapnik 0.7.1 - Cartographic Rendering
    * MapTiler 1.0beta2 - Create Map Tiles
    * OTB 3.10 - Image Processing
    * R Spatial Task View 2.12.1 - Statistical Programming

Web Services

    * GeoServer 2.1.1
    * MapServer 6.0.1
    * deegree 3.0
    * GeoNetwork 2.6.4 - Metadata Catalog and Catalog Services for Web
    * MapProxy 1.1.1 - Proxy WMS &amp; tile services
    * QGIS Server 1.7.0 - Web Map Service
    * 52°North WSS 2.2.0 - Web Security Service
    * 52°North WPS - 2.0 RC6 - Web Processing Service
    * 52°North SOS - 3.2.0 Sensor Observation Service
    * TinyOWS 1.0 - WFS-T Service
    * ZOO Project 1.0.0 - Web Processing Service

Data

    * Natural Earth 1.3.1 - Geographic Data Sets
    * OSGeo's North Carolina, USA Educational dataset
    * OpenStreetMap - Sample extract from OpenStreetMap

Geospatial Libraries

    * GeoTools - Java GIS Toolkit
    * MetaCRS - Coordinate Reference System Transformations
    * libLAS - LiDAR Data Access


    Credits

Over 80 people have directly helped with OSGeo-Live packaging, 
documenting and translating, and thousands have been involved in 
building the packaged software.

Packagers, documenters and translators include: Activity Workshop, 
Agustín Díez, Aikaterini Kapsampeli, Alan Boudreault, Alexandre Dube, 
Alex Mandel, Andrea Antonello, Andrea Yanza, Angelos Tzotsos, Anne 
Ghisla, Anton Patrushev, Argyros Argyridis, Astrid Emde, Brian Hamlin, 
Bruno Binet, Cameron Shorter, Christos Iossifidis, Dane Springmeyer, 
Daniel Kastl, David Terrativa, Diego González, Dominik Helle, Eike 
Hinderk Jürrens, Eric Lemoine, Etienne Dube, Fran Boon, François 
Prunayre, Frank Gasdorf, Gavin Treadgold, Gérald Fenoy, Hamish Bowman, 
Haruyuki Seki, Henry Addo, Hernan Olivera, Howard Butler, Ian Turton, 
Jackie Ng, Jan Drewnak, Javier Sanchez, Jesús Gómez, Jim Klassen, Jody 
Garnett, Johan Van de Wauw, Jorge Sanz, José Antonio Canalejo, Judit 
Mays, Klokan Petr Pridal, Kristof Lange, Lance McKee, Lars Lingner, 
Lucía Sanjaime, Mage Whopper, Manuel Grizonnet, Marco Puppin, Mark 
Leslie, Massimo Di Stefano, Mauricio Miranda, Mauricio Pazos, Michael 
Owonibi, Mike Adair, Milena Nowotarska, Nathaniel V. Kelso, Ned Horning, 
Nobusuke Iwasaki, Oliver Tonnhofer, Òscar Fonts, Otto Dassau, Pedro-Juan 
Ferrer, Pirmin Kalberer, Ricardo Pinho, Ruth Schoenbuchner, Samuel Mesa, 
Sergio Baños, Simon Cropper, Simon Pigot, Stefan A. Tzeggai, Stefan 
Hansen, Steve Lime, Thierry Badard, Thomas Baschetti, Trevor Wekel, 
Valenty Gonzalez, and Yoichi Kayama.


    Sponsoring organisations:

    * LISAsoft provides sustaining resources and staff toward the
      management and packaging of software onto the Live DVD.
      http://www.lisasoft.com <http://www.lisasoft.com/>
    * Information Center for the Environment at the University of
      California, Davis provides hardware resources and development
      support to the OSGeo Live project. http://ice.ucdavis.edu
      <http://ice.ucdavis.edu/>
    * The DebianGIS and UbuntuGIS teams provide and quality-assure many
      of the core packages. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianGis and
      https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGIS

-- 
Cameron Shorter
Geospatial Director
Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050
Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254

Think Globally, Fix Locally
Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source
http://www.lisasoft.com

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