From warmerdam at pobox.com Tue Oct 7 12:23:12 2008 From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:23:12 -0400 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] OpenLayers 2.7 Released Message-ID: <48EBB720.7020001@pobox.com> The OpenLayers Development Team is proud to announce release of OpenLayers 2.7. As always, the source is available at http://openlayers.org/download/. This release features a number of major developments, including: * Vector-Behavior: Strategies, Protocols, Filters * Improved Vector rendering for better performance * Canvas rendering class * Z-Ordering and Y-Ordering for Vector layers * New Basic Measurement Control * New OpenLayers.Request interface for AJAX * Smarter Popups ... and tons of other new features and bug fixes that you can see detailed here: http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/Release/2.7/Notes Furthermore, we are proud to announce two new additions to the AddIns directory! Yes, it is an exciting day for everyone in the OpenLayers Community. Please take the time to check out: * Bookmark Control -- Allows user a simple way to 'bookmark' locations on the map and navigate to them. (Author: hpbrantley, URL: http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/Addins/Bookmark) * Loading Panel -- Provides a convenient and sexy animated status monitor so users know their layers are loading (Author: bartvde, URL: http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/Addins/LoadingPanel) We even have a nice new UML Diagram to help people out with understanding the new classes in 2.7 and their relationships. Thanks Emanuel! http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/UML A thank you again to all the people who helped to make this release happen. Regards, The OpenLayers Team From warmerdam at pobox.com Tue Oct 7 13:45:17 2008 From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:45:17 -0400 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Paul Ramsey Receives Sol Katz GFOSS Award Message-ID: <48EBCA5D.9010407@pobox.com> During the closing plenary of the FOSS4G 2008 conference, Paul Ramsey was honored with the Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software (GFOSS) for 2008. Paul has played a leadership role in the PostGIS, GEOS and uDig projects. He has also played an important advocacy role for Open Source in the geospatial field with the government and business communities. The PostGIS project (a spatial extension to PostgreSQL) is the leading open source spatial database solution and has contributed greatly to the understanding that FOSS4G is "enterprise ready". Paul also lead the very successful FOSS4G 2007 conference in Victoria, and is now a director of OSGeo. Paul's video acceptance is available at: http://download.osgeo.org/osgeo/conf/2008/ramsey-katz.mov Background The Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software is awarded annually by OSGeo to individuals who have demonstrated leadership in the GFOSS community. Recipients of the award will have contributed significantly through their activities to advance open source ideals in the geospatial realm. The hope is that the award will both acknowledge the work of community members, and pay tribute to one of its founders, for years to come. Sol Katz was an early pioneer of GFOSS and left behind a large body of work in the form of applications, format specifications, and utilities. In the early 80's, Sol assisted in the development of a public domain GIS package called MOSS (Map Overlay and Statistical System). This software was arguably the first open source GIS software in the world. Sol would later go on to release and maintain PC MOSS. He was also one of the first involved in public data translator utilities. Utilities that he developed for converting DEMs and reading SDTS files were contributed back to the geospatial community, and are still available today. Sol was also a frequent contributor to many geospatial list servers, providing much guidance to the geospatial community at large. Sol Katz's collection of GIS utilities at the BLM is still available at ftp://ftp.blm.gov/pub/gis/. Sadly, after fighting Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma for almost a decade, Sol died April 23, 1999 in bed. His legacy will always live on in the GFOSS world. From warmerdam at pobox.com Wed Oct 8 14:27:13 2008 From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:27:13 -0400 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] GeoTools 2.5.0 Released Message-ID: <48ED25B1.8020903@pobox.com> The GeoTools 2.5 release is available for download: * http://geotools.codehaus.org/2.5.0 The 2.5.0 release marks the first stable release of a number of exciting developments and features of the 2.5.x series including: * New feature model based on GeoAPI * Java 5 * Support for units based on JSR-275 And much more. The entire change log can be found here: http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&&fixfor=13698&fixfor=14490&fixfor=14259&fixfor=14258&fixfor=13281&fixfor=13594&pid=10270&sorter/field=issuekey&sorter/order=DESC&sorter/field=resolution&sorter/order=DESC Other exciting news for the GeoTools community includes graduation from incubation as a project of OSGeo (Open Source Geospatial Foundation). Special thanks to everyone who provided feedback and filed bugs for this release. As usual a big thanks to Geomatys, GeoSolutions, Refractions Research, and OpenGeo, and most importantly the user and contributor community for continuing to drive GeoTools and make the project a success. For more information about this release and about the GeoTools project in general please visit: * http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTDOC * http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/2.5.x * http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Upgrade+to+2.5 * http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS -- The GeoTools Community