[OSGeo Africa] [Fwd: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo-Live 5.5 ready to distribute at international conferences]

Gavin gavinjfleming at gmail.com
Wed Feb 29 00:43:04 EST 2012


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Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo-Live 5.5 ready to distribute at
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Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:37:40 +1100



Version 5.5 of the OSGeo-Live GIS software collection and accompanying
Lightning Presentation, has been released, ready for distribution at a
large number of geospatial conferences and workshops from around the
world. 



About OSGeo-Live

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. 


      * http://live.osgeo.org 

Highlights

      * 50 Quality Geospatial Open Source applications installed and
        pre-configured 
      * Quality free world maps and geodata 
      * One page overviews and quick start guides for all applications 
      * Overviews of key OGC standards 
      * Translations for Greek, German, Polish, Spanish and Japanese 

Contents

Browser Clients 


      * OpenLayers - Browser GIS Client 
      * Geomajas - Browser GIS Client 
      * Mapbender - Geoportal Framework 
      * MapFish - Web Mapping Framework 
      * GeoMoose - Web GIS Portal 


Crisis Management 


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


Databases 


      * PostGIS - Spatial Database 
      * SpatiaLite - Lightweight Database 
      * Rasdaman - Multi-Dimensional Raster Database 
      * pgRouting - Routing for PostGIS 


Desktop GIS 


      * Quantum GIS (QGIS) 
      * GRASS GIS 
      * gvSIG Desktop 
      * User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) 
      * Kosmo Desktop 
      * OpenJUMP GIS 
      * SAGA 
      * OSSIM - Image Processing 
      * Geopublisher - Catalogue 
      * AtlasStyler - Style Editor 
      * osgEarth - 3D Terrain Rendering 
      * MB-System - Sea Floor Mapping 


Navigation and Maps 


      * GpsDrive - GPS Navigation 
      * Marble - Spinning Globe 
      * OpenCPN - Marine GPS Chartplotter 
      * OpenStreetMap - OpenStreetMap Tools 
      * Prune - View, Edit and Convert GPS Tracks 
      * Viking - GPS Data Analysis and Viewer 
      * zyGrib - Weather Forecast Maps 


Spatial Tools 


      * GeoKettle - ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) Tool 
      * GDAL/OGR - Geospatial Data Translation Tools 
      * GMT - Cartographic Rendering 
      * Mapnik - Cartographic Rendering 
      * MapTiler - Create Map Tiles 
      * OTB - Image Processing 
      * R Spatial Task View - Statistical Programming 


Web Services 


      * GeoServer 
      * MapServer 
      * deegree 
      * GeoNetwork - Metadata Catalogue 
      * pycsw - Metadata Catalogue 
      * MapProxy - Proxy WMS & tile services 
      * QGIS Server - Web Map Service 
      * 52°North WSS - Web Security Service 
      * 52°North WPS - Web Processing Service 
      * 52°North SOS - Sensor Observation Service 
      * TinyOWS - WFS-T Service 
      * ZOO Project - Web Processing Service 


Data 


      * Natural Earth - Geographic Data Sets 
      * OSGeo 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 


Other software of interest (not available Live) 


      * MapWindow GIS - Microsoft Windows based GIS 
      * MapGuide Open Source - Web Service 

Where to find OSGeo-Live

You can pick up an OSGeo-Live DVD or USB and/or see the presentation
at: 


     1. Our http://live.osgeo.org website 
     2. Malaysian Geospatial Forum, Malaka, Malaysia, March 2012 
     3. Spanish FOSS4G 2012, Girona, Spain, March 2012 
     4. FOSSGIS 2012, Dessau, Germany,March 2012 
     5. AWRA GIS and Water Resources Conference, New Orleans, USA, March
        2012 
     6. GISRUK 2012, Lancaster University, UK, April 2012 
     7. FOSS4G North America 2012, Washington DC, USA, April 2012 
     8. FOSS4G-CEE & Geoinformatics 2012, Prague, Czech Republic, May
        2012, 
     9. MapWindow/FOSS4G Regional Netherlands, Velp, The Netherlands,
        June 2012 
    10. International Environmental Modeling and Software Society
        Conference (IEMSS), Leipzig, Germany, July 2012 
    11. 34th International Geological Conference, Brisbane, Australia,
        August 2012 
    12. International FOSS4G2012, Beijing, China, September 2012 
    13. INTERGEO, Hannover Germany, October 2012 

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: 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 



Sponsoring organisations

      * The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) provides the
        primary development & hosting infrastructure and personnel for
        the project, and for many of the software teams which contribute
        to it. 
      * 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 

-- 
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
http://www.lisasoft.com
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