From warmerdam at pobox.com Fri Jun 1 18:05:10 2007 From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:05:10 -0400 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Journal Submission for Peer Review Message-ID: <4660C246.4070805@pobox.com> Dear Fellow OSGeo-ers, I'm pleased to announce that the OSGeo Journal committee has made progress on putting together a peer review process for OSGeo technical and research papers. Please consider submitting your original research or technical paper to OSGeo for publication in an upcoming issue. We are well aware that there are many excellent outlets to in which you can publish your work and would be very pleased to have you choose OSGeo Journal for manuscripts that make a new or original contribution to the field of geoinformatics and specifically the development of and/or application of FOSS4G software. The peer review process of OSGeo Journal is viewable here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Journal_Peer_Review Instructions for submitting your manuscript are here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Journal#Submission_of_articles We also need willing reviewers to make this process work. Please consider adding yourself to the list of reviewers here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Call_for_reviewers Thank you -- Daniel P. Ames, PhD, PE Dept of Geosciences Idaho State University amesdani at isu.edu www.hydromap.com From warmerdam at pobox.com Fri Jun 15 12:27:52 2007 From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:27:52 -0400 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Quantum GIS 0.8.1 Released Message-ID: <4672E838.8060005@pobox.com> It is our great pleasure to announce the immediate availability of Quantum GIS (QGIS) Version 0.8.1. Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS) that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows. QGIS supports vector, raster, and database formats. QGIS is licensed under the GNU General Public License. QGIS lets you browse and create map data on your computer. It supports many common spatial data formats (e.g. ESRI ShapeFile, geotiff). QGIS supports plugins to do things like display tracks from your GPS. QGIS is Open Source software and its free of cost (download here). We welcome contributions from our user community in the form of code contributions, bug fixes, bug reports, contributed documentation, advocacy and supporting other users on our mailing lists and forums. Financial contributions are also welcome. The release also includes numerous bug fixes and stability improvements to the 0.8 code base. QGIS is available is source form, and will be available as binary executables for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and GNU/Linux. All versions can be obtained from our download page. If the version for your platform is not available please check back in a day or two as some packages are still being built. As an open source project, we provide support for using QGIS via our mailing lists and bug tracker: * For general enquiries subscribe to our users mailing list at http://lists.qgis.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user * For developer related enquiries subscribe to our separate developers list at http://lists.qgis.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer * If you think you have found a bug, please report it using our bug tracker. When reporting bugs, please include some contact information in case we need help with replicating your issue at https://svn.qgis.org/trac From warmerdam at pobox.com Mon Jun 25 10:10:51 2007 From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:10:51 -0400 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] FOSS4G 2007 Call for Presentations Closes THIS WEEK Message-ID: <467FF71B.9000900@pobox.com> June 29 is the close of the Call for Presentations for FOSS4G (Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial). If you plan on giving a 25 minute presentation at FOSS4G, make sure you get your abstract in before the deadline! http://www.foss4g2007.org/presentations/ FOSS4G 2007 presentations are 25 minute talks, with 5 minute question and answer sessions at the end. Presentations cover the use or development of open source geospatial software. Anyone can can submit a presentation proposal and take part in the conference as a presenter. Some topics of interest for this year are: * Case Studies: Relate the experiences of you and your organization using open source geospatial. Where do things work well? Poorly? What problems did you solve, and at what cost? What do you recommend for others? Why? * Benchmarks: Comparisons between pieces of geospatial software. How do features compare? Speed? Ease of use? What do you recommend for others? * Visualization: Tell about your tips and tricks for effective visualization. How do you present information in a compelling way? 3D? Cartographic tricks? Labelling and naming ideas? Graphs and hybrid map/data combinations? * Development: What are the new developments in your open source geospatial software product? How does it work, how do people use it, what are the technical issues you are running into? * Hacks and Mashing: Have you put together something novel or cool this year? What did you stick together, how did it work, show us your gizmo! * Collaboration: What techniques are you using to improve collaboration between organizations and between individuals. Public geodata, collaborative data collection, data sharing, open standards, de facto standards, and more! If you have an open source geospatial story to tell, we want to hear it! DEMO THEATER Looking to show off your project in a short format venue? Check out the demo theater! Note that space is limited, and sponsors get first priority for slots. http://www.foss4g2007.org/exhibition/demotheatre/ From warmerdam at pobox.com Fri Jun 29 11:34:32 2007 From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:34:32 -0400 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] GDAL/OGR 1.4.2 Released Message-ID: <468550B8.7070500@pobox.com> Folks, The GDAL/OGR team is pleased to announce the release of GDAL/OGR 1.4.2. This is intended to be a bug fix release extending the GDAL 1.4.x stable branch and does not include the many new features in the development trunk (which will appear as GDAL/OGR 1.5.0). With GDAL/OGR 1.4.2, 63 Trac tickets were addressed: http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/query?status=closed&milestone=1.4.2 The NEWS for the release is available at: http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/1.4.2-News Source is available at: http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal142.zip http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal-1.4.2.tar.gz In keeping with the recent project efforts towards providing standard win32 binaries, we are also providing win32 binaries at: http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/win32/gdalwin32exe142.zip Best regards, -- ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam at pobox.com light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush | President OSGeo, http://osgeo.org