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

Gavin gavinjfleming at gmail.com
Wed Sep 7 09:46:06 EDT 2011 

this is a great resource:

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Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo-Live 5.0 released - the Open Source
Geospatial DVD
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 22:26:44 +1000



Version 5.0 of the OSGeo-Live GIS software collection 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. 



Homepage: 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 
      * 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 
      * 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

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Cameron Shorter
Geospatial Director
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