[OSGeo-Announce] Ingres 10.1 with Geospatial Support Available

[Frank Warmerdam]

The Ingres Geospatial community project is pleased to announce the
first availability of binaries for Ingres 10.1 with the new OGC Simple
Features based geospatial support built in. This software is licensed
under the GPL license version 2, thus free to download, develop against,
modify, and redistribute. The installers for each operating system are
available for download at:

   http://www.fosslc.org/drupal/content/ingres-101-geospatial-support-available

The Ingres Geospatial team has been working closely with Open Source
Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) projects to improve and incorporate them
as part of the new core Geospatial capability within the open source
Ingres database. The new binaries are based on Ingres 10.1 and include
the following features:
     * OGC SFS SQL v1.1 data types & functions
     * Projections, EPSG data loaded automatically
     * Support for Java, C/C++, .NET, Perl, Python, Ruby, etc

A brief video introducing this software is available at:

http://www.fosslc.org/drupal/content/brief-introduction-ingres-geospatial-features

Projects directly incorporated into Ingres Geospatial include PROJ.4 and
GEOS, both of which have received a variety of improvements from the
Ingres geospatial team since the beginning of its effort. Improvements
have also been made in libgeotiff, and GDAL/OGR in pursuit of improved
coordinate system dictionaries, which helps many other projects as well.

Support for Ingres has, or is being incorporated into GDAL/OGR, GeoTools,
MapServer, Drupal, and more as part of efforts to ensure as wide
application support as possible. As part of it's support for the open
source geospatial ecosystem Ingres is also a proud sponsor of OSGeo, the
GDAL/OGR project and FOSS4G 2010.

For more information, please visit our project wiki.

   http://community.ingres.com/wiki/IngresGeospatial