From tmitchell at osgeo.org Wed Jul 15 11:50:18 2009 From: tmitchell at osgeo.org (Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)) Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:50:18 -0700 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] 2008 Annual Report Published Message-ID: <4A5E24EA.70506@osgeo.org> I'm pleased to announce that the 2008 OSGeo Annual Report is now complete! It is filled with reports from across the OSGeo world: software projects, local chapters, sponsors and more produced by 49 different contributors and project teams. It comes as a print-ready PDF that can be downloaded from: http://www.osgeo.org/annual_report_2008 Thank you to all those who contributed and thank you for reading! I hope you enjoy it, Tyler Tyler Mitchell Editor in chief, OSGeo Journal http://osgeo.org/journal tmitchell at osgeo.org From tmitchell at osgeo.org Tue Jul 21 10:29:01 2009 From: tmitchell at osgeo.org (Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)) Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:29:01 -0700 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] FOSS4G Abstracts announced + Early Bird registration looming Message-ID: <4A65FADD.40907@osgeo.org> = FOSS4G Abstracts announced + Early Bird registration looming = Sydney, Australia. 20 July 2009. http://2009.foss4g.org == Abstracts Announced == A comprehensive list of presentations has been announced for the international Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial conference, in Sydney, Australia, 20-23 October 2009. Abstracts presented by the world's best Developers, Policy Makers, Sponsors and Geospatial Professionals include the latest geospatial applications, standards, government programs, business processes and case studies. Topics include mobile platforms, location based applications, crowd sourcing, cloud computing, development, spatial standards, integration of cross-agency data, Spatial Data Infrastructures, Sensor Webs, Web Processing Services, Integration of Open Source and Proprietary Software and more. For the full list of quality abstracts, view: http://2009.foss4g.org/presentations/ Community participation in the abstract selection was impressive, with over 150 community members selecting 85 general track abstracts from the 183 submitted and a further 12 academic abstracts selected by 52 academic peers. == Early Bird Registration == After getting inspired from the breadth of abstracts, be sure to register for the FOSS4G conference. Early Bird registration closes in just over two weeks, on 7 August, 2009. http://2009.foss4g.org/registration/ == Upcoming milestones == * 7 Aug 2009, __Early bird registration deadline__ * 14 Sep 2009, __Completed program available__ * 20 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Workshop * 21-23 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Presentations and Tutorials * 24 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Code Sprint == Media Sponsors == * Position Magazine: http://www.positionmag.com.au/ * Asian Surveying and Mapping Newsletter: http://www.asmmag.com * Geoconnexions Magazine: http://www.geoconnexion.com/ * Directions Magazine: http://directionsmag.com/ * GIS Development: http://gisdevelopment.net/ * Baliz Media: http://www.BALIZ-MEDIA.com/ ------ For more information or to keep informed from the FOSS4G Organising Committee, join our email list or twitter feed at: http://2009.foss4g.org/contacts/ or contact: Cameron Shorter, Chair of the FOSS4G Organising Committee and Geospatial Systems Architect at LISAsoft tel +61-2-8570-5050 c a m e r o n . s h o r t e r @ l i s a s o f t . c o m From warmerdam at pobox.com Fri Jul 24 08:59:31 2009 From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:59:31 -0400 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] MapBuilder 1.5 Released Message-ID: <4A69DA63.5060106@pobox.com> The MapBuilder community is proud to announce the release of MapBuilder 1.5, the last official stable release provided by the current development team. See http://www.communitymapbuilder.org/display/MAP/EndOfLife for more information. The new release is available for download at http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAP/Downloads MapBuilder 1.5 is based on OpenLayers 2.8 and was tested on Internet Explorer (versions 6, 7 and 8) and Mozilla Firefox (versions 2.x and 3.x). This ensures that users can keep using Mapbuilder for some time, and extend their applications with the rich feature set of OpenLayers 2.8 Since the last stable release 1.0.1, there have been significant changes and improvements, most of them related to switching from Mapbuilder's own rendering to OpenLayers. See http://svn.codehaus.org/mapbuilder/tags/mapbuilder-lib-1_5-release/mapbuilder/CHANGES for the full change log. If you are upgrading applications from 1.5-alpha1 or earlier, see http://communitymapbuilder.org/display/MAP/Upgrading+from+pre-1.5 for a list of required configuration changes. Regards, Andreas Hocevar. From tmitchell at osgeo.org Fri Jul 24 09:00:32 2009 From: tmitchell at osgeo.org (Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)) Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:00:32 -0700 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] GeoNetwork opensource v2.4.0 released Message-ID: <4A69DAA0.9040800@osgeo.org> Dear all, We're proud to announce the release of GeoNetwork opensource 2.4.0. This is a major release for the project. GeoNetwork opensource ( http://geonetwork-opensource.org ) is a standards based geospatial catalog application that helps people and organizations to organize and publish their geospatial data through the web. It is currently used in numerous Spatial Data Infrastructure initiatives across the world. Important improvements have been made to ease of use, advanced metadata editing, performance and interoperability making it one of the most advanced, if not the most advanced geospatial metadata catalog available on the market today. The software provides an easy to use web interface to search geospatial data across multiple catalogs, combine distributed map services in the embedded map viewer, send annotated interactive maps to friends by email, publish geospatial data using the online metadata editing tools and optionally the embedded GeoServer map server. Administrators have the option to manage user and group accounts, configure the server through web based and desktop utilities and schedule metadata harvesting from other catalogs. You will find support for a number of metadata formats (ISO19115/19119 following ISO19139, FGDC and Dublin Core), a number of catalog interfaces (OGC-CSW2.0.2 ISO profile client and server, OAI-PMH client and server, GeoRSS server, GEO OpenSearch server, WebDAV harvesting, GeoNetwork to GeoNetwork harvesting support). A single, platform independent installer allows to install and run the software on a PC or a server on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. The installer can be downloaded as an executable Windows file or as a platform independent .jar installer. It creates a Start menu on Windows computers. Command line installations are also possible for remote installations. Please refer to chapter 6 of the manual for detailed installation instructions. The GeoNetwork community has been expanding quickly over the last years. The current release has been possible because of all those that contributed to the project through code contributions, testing, bug reports and fixes as well as many suggestions. GeoNetwork opensource is part of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo, http://www.osgeo.org ) software stack, providing software you can trust tobe free, open and sustainable. Voluntary support is provided through mailing lists, websites and online forums. Several companies also provide commercial support to help organizations to implement, integrate and maintain the software. You can find them in the Service Provider directory on the OSGeo website. Thanks and congratulations to the all community members! Jeroen Ticheler ____________________________________________________ Jeroen Ticheler GeoCat bv Grotenhuisweg 61 7384 CT Wilp Tel: +31 (0)6 81286572 http://geocat.net Please consider the environment before printing this email. From tmitchell at osgeo.org Mon Jul 27 12:33:07 2009 From: tmitchell at osgeo.org (Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)) Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:33:07 -0700 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] PostGIS 1.4.0 Released Message-ID: <4A6E00F3.9090008@osgeo.org> July 24, 2009 The PostGIS development team has, after a long period of meditation and soul searching, released version 1.4.0 of the spatial data extension for PostgreSQL. http://postgis.refractions.net/download/postgis-1.4.0.tar.gz This new version of PostGIS includes substantial performance enhancements, more detailed reference documentation, new output formats (GeoJSON) and an improved internal testing system. PostGIS 1.4 also supports the recent PostgreSQL 8.4 release. Thanks to everyone who helped by testing during the release candidate process! Your PostGIS Team -- Detailed PostGIS 1.4 Release Notes -- - As of the 1.4 release series, the public API of PostGIS will not change during minor releases. - Compatibility - The versions below are the *minimum* requirements for PostGIS 1.4 - PostgreSQL 8.2 and higher on all platforms - GEOS 3.0 and higher only - PROJ4 4.5 and higher only - New Features - ST_Union() uses high-speed cascaded union when compiled against GEOS 3.1+ (Paul Ramsey) - ST_ContainsProperly() requires GEOS 3.1+ - ST_Intersects(), ST_Contains(), ST_Within() use high-speed cached prepared geometry against GEOS 3.1+ (Paul Ramsey) - Vastly improved documentation and reference manual (Regina Obe & Kevin Neufeld) - Figures and diagram examples in the reference manual (Kevin Neufeld) - ST_IsValidReason() returns readable explanations for validity failures (Paul Ramsey) - ST_GeoHash() returns a geohash.org signature for geometries (Paul Ramsey) - GTK+ multi-platform GUI for shape file loading (Paul Ramsey) - ST_LineCrossingDirection() returns crossing directions (Paul Ramsey) - ST_LocateBetweenElevations() returns sub-string based on Z-ordinate. (Paul Ramsey) - Geometry parser returns explicit error message about location of syntax errors (Mark Cave-Ayland) - ST_AsGeoJSON() return JSON formatted - Populate_Geometry_Columns() -- automatically add records to geometry_columns for TABLES and VIEWS (Kevin Neufeld) - ST_MinimumBoundingCircle() -- returns the smallest circle polygon that can encompass a geometry (Bruce Rindahl) - Enhancements - Core geometry system moved into independent library, liblwgeom. (Mark Cave-Ayland) - New build system uses PostgreSQL "pgxs" build bootstrapper. (Mark Cave-Ayland) - Debugging framework formalized and simplified. (Mark Cave-Ayland) - All build-time #defines generated at configure time and placed in headers for easier cross-platform support (Mark Cave-Ayland) - Logging framework formalized and simplified (Mark Cave-Ayland) - Expanded and more stable support for CIRCULARSTRING, COMPOUNDCURVE and CURVEPOLYGON, better parsing, wider support in functions (Mark Leslie & Mark Cave-Ayland) - Improved support for OpenSolaris builds (Paul Ramsey) - Improved support for MSVC builds (Mateusz Loskot) - Updated KML support (Olivier Courtin) - Unit testing framework for liblwgeom (Paul Ramsey) - New testing framework to comprehensively exercise every PostGIS function (Regine Obe) - Performance improvements to all geometry aggregate functions (Paul Ramsey) - Support for the upcoming PostgreSQL 8.4 (Mark Cave-Ayland, Talha Bin Rizwan) - Shp2pgsql and pgsql2shp re-worked to depend on the common parsing/unparsing code in liblwgeom (Mark Cave-Ayland) - Use of PDF DbLatex to build PDF docs and preliminary instructions for build (Jean David Techer) - Automated User documentation build (PDF and HTML) and Developer Doxygen Documentation (Kevin Neufeld) - Automated build of document images using ImageMagick from WKT geometry text files (Kevin Neufeld) - More attractive CSS for HTML documentation (Dane Springmeyer) - Bug fixes - http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/query?status=closed&milestone=postgis+1.4.0&order=priority