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Congratulations!<br>
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I wanted to show my appreciation for the hard work and dedication
that brought forth this LiveDVD. Especially you Cameron, having to
constantly push lazy people like me whenever bugs appeared.<br>
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I'll download it immediately.<br>
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On 09/07/2011 02:26 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
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<p>Version 5.0 of the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://live.osgeo.org">OSGeo-Live GIS software
collection</a> has been released. </p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>The applications can be trialled without installing anything on
your computer, simply by booting the computer from the DVD or
USB drive. </p>
<p>A DVD or USB of OSGeo-Live is being distributed to every
delegate at the upcoming international conference for Free and
Open Source Software, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://2011.foss4g.org/" rel="nofollow">http://2011.foss4g.org</a>.
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<dl>
<dt>Homepage: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://live.osgeo.org/" rel="nofollow">http://live.osgeo.org</a></dt>
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<h2> Highlights</h2>
<ul>
<li> 47 Quality GeoSpatial Open Source applications installed
and pre-configured </li>
<li> Quality free world maps </li>
<li> One page overviews and quick starts for all applications </li>
<li> Overviews of key OGC standards </li>
<li> Translations for Greek, German, Polish, Spanish and
Japanese </li>
</ul>
<h2> Contents</h2>
<p>Browser Clients </p>
<ul>
<li> OpenLayers 2.10 - Browser GIS Client </li>
<li> Geomajas - 1.8 Browser GIS Client </li>
<li> Mapbender 2.7.2 - Geoportal Framework </li>
<li> MapFish 2.2 - Web Mapping Framework </li>
<li> GeoMoose 2.4 - Web GIS Portal </li>
</ul>
<p>Crisis Management </p>
<ul>
<li> Sahana Eden 0.5.5 - Disaster management </li>
<li> Ushahidi 2.1 - Mapping and Timeline for events </li>
</ul>
<p>Databases </p>
<ul>
<li> PostGIS 1.5 - Spatial Database </li>
<li> SpatiaLite 2.3.1 / 2.4 beta - Lightweight Database </li>
<li> Rasdaman 8.2 - Multi-Dimensional Raster Database </li>
<li> pgRouting 1.05 - Routing for PostGIS </li>
</ul>
<p>Desktop GIS </p>
<ul>
<li> Quantum GIS (QGIS) 1.7.0 </li>
<li> GRASS GIS 6.4.1 </li>
<li> gvSIG Desktop 1.11 </li>
<li> User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) 1.2.2 </li>
<li> Kosmo Desktop 2.0.1 </li>
<li> OpenJUMP GIS 1.4.0.1 </li>
<li> SAGA 2.0.7 </li>
<li> OSSIM 1.8.6 - Image Processing </li>
<li> Geopublisher 1.7 - Catalogue </li>
<li> AtlasStyler 1.7 - Style Editor </li>
<li> osgEarth 2.0 - 3D Terrain Rendering </li>
</ul>
<p>Navigation and Maps </p>
<ul>
<li> GpsDrive 2.11 - GPS Navigation </li>
<li> Marble 1.0.2 - Spinning Globe </li>
<li> OpenCPN 2.5.0 - Marine GPS Chartplotter </li>
<li> OpenStreetMap Tools - JOSM, Merkaartor, Gosmore, Osmarender
</li>
<li> Prune 12 - View, Edit and Convert GPS Tracks </li>
<li> Viking 9.9.94 - GPS Data Analysis and Viewer </li>
<li> zyGrib 5.0 - Weather Forecast Maps </li>
</ul>
<p>Spatial Tools </p>
<ul>
<li> GeoKettle 2.0-RC1 - ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) Tool
</li>
<li> GDAL/OGR 1.8.0 - GeoSpatial Data Translation Tools </li>
<li> GMT 4.5.2 - Cartographic Rendering </li>
<li> Mapnik 0.7.1 - Cartographic Rendering </li>
<li> MapTiler 1.0beta2 - Create Map Tiles </li>
<li> OTB 3.10 - Image Processing </li>
<li> R Spatial Task View 2.12.1 - Statistical Programming </li>
</ul>
<p>Web Services </p>
<ul>
<li> GeoServer 2.1.1 </li>
<li> MapServer 6.0.1 </li>
<li> deegree 3.0 </li>
<li> GeoNetwork 2.6.4 - Metadata Catalog and Catalog Services
for Web </li>
<li> MapProxy 1.1.1 - Proxy WMS &amp; tile services </li>
<li> QGIS Server 1.7.0 - Web Map Service </li>
<li> 52°North WSS 2.2.0 - Web Security Service </li>
<li> 52°North WPS - 2.0 RC6 - Web Processing Service </li>
<li> 52°North SOS - 3.2.0 Sensor Observation Service </li>
<li> TinyOWS 1.0 - WFS-T Service </li>
<li> ZOO Project 1.0.0 - Web Processing Service </li>
</ul>
<p>Data </p>
<ul>
<li> Natural Earth 1.3.1 - Geographic Data Sets </li>
<li> OSGeo's North Carolina, USA Educational dataset </li>
<li> OpenStreetMap - Sample extract from OpenStreetMap </li>
</ul>
<p>Geospatial Libraries </p>
<ul>
<li> GeoTools - Java GIS Toolkit </li>
<li> MetaCRS - Coordinate Reference System Transformations </li>
<li> libLAS - LiDAR Data Access </li>
</ul>
<h2> Credits</h2>
<p>Over 80 people have directly helped with OSGeo-Live packaging,
documenting and translating, and thousands have been involved in
building the packaged software. </p>
<p>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. </p>
<h2> Sponsoring organisations:</h2>
<ul>
<li>LISAsoft provides sustaining resources and staff toward the
management and packaging of software onto the Live DVD. <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.lisasoft.com/"
rel="nofollow">http://www.lisasoft.com</a> </li>
<li>Information Center for the Environment at the University of
California, Davis provides hardware resources and development
support to the OSGeo Live project. <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://ice.ucdavis.edu/" rel="nofollow">http://ice.ucdavis.edu</a>
</li>
<li>The DebianGIS and UbuntuGIS teams provide and quality-assure
many of the core packages. <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianGis" rel="nofollow">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianGis</a>
and <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGIS" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGIS</a></li>
</ul>
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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
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.lisasoft.com">http://www.lisasoft.com</a>
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<p>Pieter De Graef</p>
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Chair of the Geomajas project<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.geomajas.org/">http://www.geomajas.org/</a>
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Community Manager @ Geosparc<br>
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