From a.ghisla at gmail.com Tue Apr 9 07:19:24 2013 From: a.ghisla at gmail.com (Anne Ghisla) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 16:19:24 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo accepted in Google Summer of Code 2013 Message-ID: <20130409161924.6d9aee76@galadriel.localdomain> OSGeo has been accepted as mentoring organisation at Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2013 [1,2,3]! This program provides funding for students to work on open source projects under the support of experienced mentors. All OSGeo projects are invited to propose ideas, and encourage would-be students to discuss their own ideas with the developers. Moreover, we happily welcome our guest projects for 2013, istSOS and pgRouting, and also students from Mapnik, OpenStreetMap and uDig. See Ideas page for more details. The main communication channel is the dedicated mailing list [4]. We look forward for another productive and fun Summer of Code! 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Existing repositories of geospatial metadata can also be exposed via OGC:CSW 2.0.2, providing a standards-based metadata and catalogue component of spatial data infrastructures. [1] http://pycsw.org [2] http://www.osgeo.org/incubator -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: not available URL: From a.ghisla at gmail.com Mon Apr 15 00:56:32 2013 From: a.ghisla at gmail.com (Anne Ghisla) Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 09:56:32 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] FOSS4G 2014 RFP Process Message-ID: <20130415095632.07b0abc2@galadriel.localdomain> OSGeo is happy to announce the call for hosting the FOSS4G 2014 event. The 2014 FOSS4G RFP is available now at: http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/foss4g/rfp/2014/osgeo-conference-2013-request-for-proposal.pdf And the RFP process is summarily described on the wiki: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2014_Bid_Process Links to letters of intent, proposals, and supplementary information will be added to the wiki page as the process goes on. Highlights: 2014 is a "North America year" Like last year, using a two-stage bidding process, with letters-of-intent, followed by full proposals for selected bidders. Letters of intent due May 10. Please share this document far and wide! Yours, Paul Ramsey FOSS4G RFP Coordinator, 2014 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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However this new gvSIG Desktop version includes a series of new features: - New installer that supports typical and custom installation. - Add-ons manager that allows to install new extensions and customize gvSIG from the same application. - Some changes in the interface of data management tools like: ? File import/export ? Table operations ? New layer - Layer load improved - WMTS (Web Map Tiled Service) support - Raster data cache - Unified geoprocessing interface - Import symbols, making the creation of symbols libraries easy. - Export symbols, that allows to share complete symbols libraries with other users easily. - Scripting framework (languages: Jython, Groovy and Javascript). Nevertheless it's the last version of gvSIG, it has to be taken into account that it's really a new gvSIG, so you will find that some of the gvSIG 1.12 functionalities are not included. These functionalities will be included in following and continuous updates according to their migration to the new architecture. The main functionalities that are not included are the following: - Georeferencing - Legend by proportional symbols, graduated ones, dot density, quantities by categories and by expressions. - Extensions: Network analysis and 3D In the same way, there are several projects based on this new architecture that will allow to include new functionalities and improvements directly in gvSIG 2.0 in the next months. Also it has to be taken into account that the level of stability of this new version is not as high as we would have wished, considering it a final version in order to be used by the community in an official way, and mainly to tackle the new developments on it. For that, we encourage you to test it and send us any errors in order to fix them in the following updates. The known errors of this version can be consulted in [2]. From this version, several mirrors are now available to download the packages from gvSIG. These mirrors will be available within a few days. We hope you enjoy the new features of this version and you help us to improve it. [1] http://www.gvsig.org/web/projects/gvsig-desktop/official/gvsig-2.0/downloads [2] http://gvsig.org/r?r=bugs200 Greetings, gvSIG News Office -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: not available URL: From warmerdam at pobox.com Mon Apr 29 12:01:42 2013 From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:01:42 -0700 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] GDAL/OGR 1.10.0 Released Message-ID: The GDAL/OGR team is pleased to announce the release of GDAL/OGR 1.10.0. This is a major new release including the following major new features: * New GDAL drivers: - ARG: read/write support for the Azavea Raster Grid format (#4591) - CTable2: read/write support for CTable2 datum grid shift format - DDS: write-only support for DirectDraw Surface format (#5017) - IRIS: read support for products generated by the IRIS weather radar software (#4854) - MAP: read OziExplorer .map files (#3380) - MBTiles: read-only support for MBTiles rasters * New OGR drivers: - ElasticSearch: write-only support to write into ElasticSearch databases - ODS : read/write support for OpenOffice .ods (Open Document Spreadsheets) - OSM : read-only support for .osm / .pbf OpenStreetMap files - PDF: read/write support for vector/structured PDF files - XLSX: read/write support for MS Excel 2007 and later Open Office XML .xlsx spreadsheets * RFC 39: OGR Layer algebra methods : http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc39_ogr_layer_algebra * SQL SQLite dialect : http://gdal.org/ogr/ogr_sql_sqlite.html * Make GDAL loadable as a SQLite3 extension (named VirtualOGR) (#4782) * /vsicurl_streaming/: new virtual file system handler designed to read in streaming mode dynamically generated files * GDAL API_PROXY mechanism to run GDAL drivers in a separate process: http://gdal.org/gdal_api_proxy.html * Significantly improved drivers : PDF, SQLite, JP2OpenJPEG * Geocoding client : http://gdal.org/ogr/ogr__geocoding_8h.html * Upgrade to EPSG 8.0 database Complete news on the new release can be found at: http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/1.10.0-News The new release can be downloaded from: * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/1.10.0/gdal1100.zip - source as a zip * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/1.10.0/gdal-1.10.0.tar.gz - source as .tar.gz * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/1.10.0/gdalautotest-1.10.0.tar.gz - test suite * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/1.10.0/gdal1100doc.zip - documentation / website >From now, http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/CURRENT link also point to the latest release. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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