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<p>Version 5.5 of the <a href="http://live.osgeo.org"
class="external text" rel="nofollow">OSGeo-Live GIS software
collection</a> and accompanying <a
href="http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/browser/livedvd/promo/trunk/en/presentation/"
class="external text" rel="nofollow">Lightening Presentation</a>,
has been released, ready for distribution at a large number of
geospatial conferences and workshops from around the world.
</p>
<h2> <span class="mw-headline" id="About_OSGeo-Live">About
OSGeo-Live</span></h2>
<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. The
applications can be trialled without installing anything on your
computer, simply by booting the computer from the DVD or USB
drive. The lightening overview introduces all these applications,
and hence provides a comprehensive introduction to the breadth of
Geospatial Open Source.
</p>
<ul>
<li> <a href="http://live.osgeo.org" class="external free"
rel="nofollow">http://live.osgeo.org</a>
</li>
</ul>
<h2> <span class="mw-headline" id="Highlights">Highlights</span></h2>
<ul>
<li> 50 Quality Geospatial Open Source applications installed and
pre-configured
</li>
<li> Quality free world maps and geodata
</li>
<li> One page overviews and quick start guides for all
applications
</li>
<li> Overviews of key OGC standards
</li>
<li> Translations for Greek, German, Polish, Spanish and Japanese
</li>
</ul>
<h2> <span class="mw-headline" id="Contents">Contents</span></h2>
<p>Browser Clients
</p>
<ul>
<li> OpenLayers - Browser GIS Client
</li>
<li> Geomajas - Browser GIS Client
</li>
<li> Mapbender - Geoportal Framework
</li>
<li> MapFish - Web Mapping Framework
</li>
<li> GeoMoose - Web GIS Portal
</li>
</ul>
<p>Crisis Management
</p>
<ul>
<li> Sahana Eden - Disaster management
</li>
<li> Ushahidi - Mapping and Timeline for events
</li>
</ul>
<p>Databases
</p>
<ul>
<li> PostGIS - Spatial Database
</li>
<li> SpatiaLite - Lightweight Database
</li>
<li> Rasdaman - Multi-Dimensional Raster Database
</li>
<li> pgRouting - Routing for PostGIS
</li>
</ul>
<p>Desktop GIS
</p>
<ul>
<li> Quantum GIS (QGIS)
</li>
<li> GRASS GIS
</li>
<li> gvSIG Desktop
</li>
<li> User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig)
</li>
<li> Kosmo Desktop
</li>
<li> OpenJUMP GIS
</li>
<li> SAGA
</li>
<li> OSSIM - Image Processing
</li>
<li> Geopublisher - Catalogue
</li>
<li> AtlasStyler - Style Editor
</li>
<li> osgEarth - 3D Terrain Rendering
</li>
<li> MB-System - Sea Floor Mapping
</li>
</ul>
<p>Navigation and Maps
</p>
<ul>
<li> GpsDrive - GPS Navigation
</li>
<li> Marble - Spinning Globe
</li>
<li> OpenCPN - Marine GPS Chartplotter
</li>
<li> OpenStreetMap - OpenStreetMap Tools
</li>
<li> Prune - View, Edit and Convert GPS Tracks
</li>
<li> Viking - GPS Data Analysis and Viewer
</li>
<li> zyGrib - Weather Forecast Maps
</li>
</ul>
<p>Spatial Tools
</p>
<ul>
<li> GeoKettle - ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) Tool
</li>
<li> GDAL/OGR - Geospatial Data Translation Tools
</li>
<li> GMT - Cartographic Rendering
</li>
<li> Mapnik - Cartographic Rendering
</li>
<li> MapTiler - Create Map Tiles
</li>
<li> OTB - Image Processing
</li>
<li> R Spatial Task View - Statistical Programming
</li>
</ul>
<p>Web Services
</p>
<ul>
<li> GeoServer
</li>
<li> MapServer
</li>
<li> deegree
</li>
<li> GeoNetwork - Metadata Catalogue
</li>
<li> pycsw - Metadata Catalogue
</li>
<li> MapProxy - Proxy WMS & tile services
</li>
<li> QGIS Server - Web Map Service
</li>
<li> 52°North WSS - Web Security Service
</li>
<li> 52°North WPS - Web Processing Service
</li>
<li> 52°North SOS - Sensor Observation Service
</li>
<li> TinyOWS - WFS-T Service
</li>
<li> ZOO Project - Web Processing Service
</li>
</ul>
<p>Data
</p>
<ul>
<li> Natural Earth - Geographic Data Sets
</li>
<li> OSGeo 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>
<p>Other software of interest (not available Live)
</p>
<ul>
<li> MapWindow GIS - Microsoft Windows based GIS
</li>
<li> MapGuide Open Source - Web Service
</li>
</ul>
<h2> <span class="mw-headline" id="Where_to_find_OSGeo-Live">Where
to find OSGeo-Live</span></h2>
<p>You can pick up an OSGeo-Live DVD or USB and/or see the
presentation at:
</p>
<ol>
<li> Our <a href="http://live.osgeo.org" class="external free"
rel="nofollow">http://live.osgeo.org</a> website
</li>
<li> <a href="http://www.malaysiageospatialforum.org"
class="external text" rel="nofollow">Malaysian Geospatial
Forum</a>, Malaka, Malaysia, March 2012
</li>
<li> <a href="http://www.sigte.udg.edu/jornadassiglibre/"
class="external text" rel="nofollow">Spanish FOSS4G 2012</a>,
Girona, Spain, March 2012
</li>
<li> <a href="http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2012/"
class="external text" rel="nofollow">FOSSGIS 2012</a>, Dessau,
Germany,March 2012
</li>
<li> <a href="http://awra.org/meetings/Spring2012/"
class="external text" rel="nofollow">AWRA GIS and Water
Resources Conference</a>, New Orleans, USA, March 2012
</li>
<li> <a href="http://www.lancs.ac.uk/gisruk2012/" class="external
text" rel="nofollow">GISRUK 2012</a>, Lancaster University,
UK, April 2012
</li>
<li> <a href="http://foss4g-na.org/" class="external text"
rel="nofollow">FOSS4G North America 2012</a>, Washington DC,
USA, April 2012
</li>
<li> <a href="http://foss4g-cee.org/" class="external text"
rel="nofollow">FOSS4G-CEE & Geoinformatics 2012</a>,
Prague, Czech Republic, May 2012, </li>
<li> <a href="http://www.mapwindow.org/conference/2012/"
class="external text" rel="nofollow">MapWindow/FOSS4G Regional
Netherlands</a>, Velp, The Netherlands, June 2012
</li>
<li> <a
href="http://www.iemss.org/sites/iemss2012/sessions_D.html"
class="external text" rel="nofollow">International
Environmental Modeling and Software Society Conference (IEMSS)</a>,
Leipzig, Germany, July 2012
</li>
<li> <a href="http://www.34igc.org/" class="external text"
rel="nofollow">34th International Geological Conference</a>,
Brisbane, Australia, August 2012
</li>
<li> <a href="http://2012.foss4g.org" class="external text"
rel="nofollow">International FOSS4G2012</a>, Beijing, China,
September 2012
</li>
<li> <a href="http://intergeo.de" class="external text"
rel="nofollow">INTERGEO</a>, Hannover Germany, October 2012
</li>
</ol>
<h2> <span class="mw-headline" id="Credits"> Credits </span></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:
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 Mateos, Diego
González, Dimitar Misev, Dominik Helle, Edgar Soldin, 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 Arévalo, 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, Michaël Michaud,
Michael Owonibi, Micha Silver, Mike Adair, Milena Nowotarska,
Nathaniel V. Kelso, Ned Horning, Nobusuke Iwasaki, Oliver
Tonnhofer, Òscar Fonts, Otto Dassau, Paul Meems, Pedro-Juan
Ferrer, Pirmin Kalberer, Ricardo Pinho, Roald de Wit, Roberto
Antolín, Ruth Schoenbuchner, Samuel Mesa, Sergio Baños, Simon
Cropper, Simon Pigot, Stefan A. Tzeggai, Stefan Hansen, Steve
Lime, Thierry Badard, Thomas Baschetti, Tom Kralidis, Trevor
Wekel, Valenty Gonzalez, Yoichi Kayama
</p>
<h2> <span class="mw-headline" id="Sponsoring_organisations">Sponsoring
organisations</span></h2>
<ul>
<li> <a href="http://www.osgeo.org" class="external text"
rel="nofollow">The Open Source Geospatial Foundation</a>
(OSGeo) provides the primary development & hosting
infrastructure and personnel for the project, and for many of
the software teams which contribute to it.
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li> LISAsoft provides sustaining resources and staff toward the
management and packaging of software onto the Live DVD. <a
href="http://www.lisasoft.com" class="external free"
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
href="http://ice.ucdavis.edu" class="external free"
rel="nofollow">http://ice.ucdavis.edu</a>
</li>
<li> The DebianGIS and UbuntuGIS teams provide and quality-assure
many of the core packages. <a
href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianGis" class="external free"
rel="nofollow">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianGis</a> and <a
href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGIS" class="external free"
rel="nofollow">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGIS</a>
</li>
</ul>
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Cameron Shorter
Geospatial Solutions Manager
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 class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.lisasoft.com">http://www.lisasoft.com</a>
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