[Ubuntu] UbuntuGIS Upgrade

[Alex Mandel]

You can always use GDAL to handle format conversions...
I'll have a chat with the Opticks team, since they just applied to join
OSGeo and recently went open source we should be able to get both 23 &
64 builds out the door.

Thanks,
Alex

On 05/18/2011 01:39 AM, christopher legg wrote:
> Thanks to all,
> 
> I was unfamiliar with OTB. I have now installed, and it appears that I
> will be able to do most of what I require with this package, using the
> Monteverdi interface. I would like to use Opticks, but my system is
> (mistakenly) 32-bit and Opticks only supports 64-bit. Saga will not do
> enough, especially converting file formats (eg bil to georeferenced jpeg
> for export and sharing). Grass, accessed through Q-GIS and gdal are
> powerful, but not good for PCA which I often need. I will experiment
> with OTB in coming weeks as I have time.
> 
> Many thanks again,
> 
> Chris
> 
> On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 09:28 +0200, Manuel Grizonnet wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> concerning the Orfeo ToolBox (available as well in the last version of
>> OSGeo Live), we recently work on packaging the library for Ubuntu.
>> Since the last release, the library and associated projects are
>> available on 9.10, 10.4,10.10 and 11.4 through a ppa :
>> https://launchpad.net/~otb 
>>
>> Stable version of OTB is also available using the UbuntuGIS
>> repository :
>> https://launchpad.net/~otb/+archive/orfeotoolbox-stable-ubuntugis
>>
>> Moreover, internally the Orfeo ToolBox uses the last release of ossim
>> (in fact the source of ossim is integrated in the Utilities of the
>> lib). So in the packaging of OTB, there are perhap's materials to
>> initiate the work for OSSIM. 
>>
>> We'll be really interested to be able to help you improve the
>> integration of new GIS tools available in Ubuntu. And really
>> interested if it can be possible to make available the stable version
>> of the Orfeo Toolbox in UbuntuGIS.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Manuel  
>>
>> 2011/5/17 Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com>
>>         I believe that 1.8.3 is in Stable(Under Karmic), Pirmin
>>         mentioned that
>>         the deb for Karmic also works up until at least Lucid (I
>>         installed them
>>         on my Lucid the other day and just had to EXPORT a path var to
>>         get it
>>         working).
>>         
>>         Really depends on Pirmin and Massimo to bring the packaging
>>         back up to
>>         date. In the meantime if you want to get a more recent version
>>         OSGeo
>>         Live has a script you could try to build from source with:
>>         http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/bin/install_ossim.sh
>>         
>>         That said what about R(raster package, etc.), SAGA, Orfeo
>>         Toolbox,
>>         Opticks, or SPRING, (I'll assume you've exhausted what GRASS
>>         can do.)
>>         
>>         Thanks,
>>         Alex
>>         
>>         On 05/17/2011 06:39 AM, christopher legg wrote:
>>         > When is Ossim likely to be included in UbuntuGIS? There is a
>>         serious
>>         > lack of good remote sensing software in Ubuntu. MultiSpec
>>         will work
>>         > under Wine, with some problems, but I know of nothing else.
>>         >
>>         > On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 09:27 -0400, Alan Boudreault wrote:
>>         >> Since Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty) was released a few weeks ago,
>>         I've upgraded the
>>         >> UbuntuGIS repositories.
>>         >>
>>         >> Distributions Support
>>         >> ------------------------
>>         >>
>>         >>  * UbuntuGIS now supports Natty.
>>         >>  * Karmic packages have been completely deleted from the
>>         unstable repository.
>>         >> They only remain in the stable repository.
>>         >>
>>         >> http://trac.osgeo.org/ubuntugis/wiki/SupportedDistributions
>>         >>
>>         >> Stable Repository
>>         >> --------------------
>>         >>
>>         >>  * Upgraded with the last unstable repository state.
>>         >>  * Now includes packages for Maverick.
>>         >>  * Packages versions:
>>         >>     gdal: 1.7.3
>>         >>     libgdal-ecw: 1.7.3
>>         >>     libgdal-mrsid: 1.7.3
>>         >>     geos: 3.2.2
>>         >>     grass: 6.4.0
>>         >>     libgdal-grass: 1.7.3
>>         >>     libgeotiff-dfsg: 1.2.5
>>         >>     postgis: 1.5.2
>>         >>     mapserver: 5.6.6
>>         >>     proj: 4.7.0
>>         >>     qgis: 1.3.0 (hardy) and 1.6.0
>>         >>     spatialite: 2.4.0~rc4
>>         >>     tinyows: 0.9.0
>>         >>     osgearth: 1.4.1
>>         >>     saga: 2.0.5
>>         >>     tilecache: 2.10
>>         >>
>>         >>
>>         >>    For the complete list:
>>         >>
>>         https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ppa/?field.series_filter=
>>         >>
>>         >> As usual, this repository will stay at the same state for
>>         another ~6 months.
>>         >>
>>         >> Unstable Repository
>>         >> ----------------------
>>         >>
>>         >>  * Upgraded with the latest software releases.
>>         >>  * Now includes packages for Maverick.
>>         >>  * Packages versions:
>>         >>     gdal: 1.8.0
>>         >>     geos: 3.2.2
>>         >>     grass: 6.4.1
>>         >>     libgdal-ecw: 1.8.0
>>         >>     libgdal-grass: 1.8.0
>>         >>     libgdal-mrsid: 1.8.0
>>         >>     libgeotiff-dfsg: 1.3.0
>>         >>     mapserver: 6.0.0
>>         >>     postgis: 1.5.2
>>         >>     proj: 4.7.0
>>         >>     qgis: 1.3.0 (hardy) and 1.6.0
>>         >>     spatialite: 2.4.0~rc4
>>         >>     tinyows: 0.9.0
>>         >>     osgearth: 1.4.1
>>         >>     saga: 2.0.5
>>         >>     tilecache: 2.10
>>         >>
>>         >>
>>         >> For the complete list:
>>         https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntugis-
>>         >> unstable/?field.series_filter=
>>         >>
>>         >> regards,
>>         >> Alan
>>         >
>>     
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