From warmerdam at pobox.com Thu Mar 7 10:26:18 2013 From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 10:26:18 -0800 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] New Associate Sponsors 2ndQuadrant and Karttakeskus Message-ID: OSGeo is pleased to announce 2ndQuadrant (http://www.2ndquadrant.com/) and Karttakeskus (http://www.karttakeskus.fi/) as OSGeo's latest Associate Sponsors. 2ndQuadrant founder, Simon Riggs, and his organization based in the UK offer professional support around the widely popular Open Source PostgreSQL database engine. Karttakeskus director, Sami Masala, says "In Finland, there is an increasing interest towards Open Source software among our clients. Open Source attracts enterprises as it is fast, flexible and cost-efficient. Open Source is also easy to integrate with other software. From our viewpoint, Open Source and commercial software are not opposites, but complement each other. Karttakeskus wants to offer the best possible support and expertise in this field and promote the use of Open Source solutions in the private and public sectors. We find OSGeo an important partner for us in this, as OSGeo is working with the most important Open Source implementation projects, such as GeoServer, OpenLayers and QGIS. This year, we want to participate in the Open Source development projects, for example in the Finnish translations of the user interfaces." Thank you to 2ndQuadrant, Karttakeskus, and all sponsors for supporting OSGeo and its vibrant community! From a.ghisla at gmail.com Thu Mar 21 03:16:40 2013 From: a.ghisla at gmail.com (Anne Ghisla) Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:16:40 +0100 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] GeoServer 2.3.0 Released Message-ID: <20130321111640.21989e44@galadriel.localdomain> The GeoServer team is happy to announce the release of GeoServer 2.3.0, available from: http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/GeoServer+2.3.0 This release contains six months worth of improvements and fixes to the GeoServer code base. Including new features, improvements and fixes such as: A pluggable configuration subsystem (for the catalog and service configuration) GeoWebCache clustering and disk quota improvements More powerful layer groups and better control of the WMS capabilities layer tree Several security subsystem improvements WPS process whitelist (control which processes your WPS is exposing) WMS dimensions support improvements (units, custom dimensions) JSON and JSONP output format support in many OGC operations The monitoring module finally graduating to official extension Raster re-projection quality improvements and speedups INSPIRE module improvements for the WFS protocol A newfound ability to catalogue all components of GeoServer via a REST API Check out the GeoServer 2.3 blog posts for more details: GeoServer 2.3.0 released, first official OSGeo release! (http://blog.geoserver.org/2013/03/18/geoserver-2-3-0-released-first-official-osgeo-release/) GeoServer 2.3-beta released (http://blog.geoserver.org/2013/01/29/geoserver-2-3-beta-released/) Download GeoServer 2.3.0 (http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/GeoServer+2.3.0), try it out, and provide feedback on the mailing list (http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/Mailing+Lists). As with any new version, be sure to backup your data directory before upgrading. -- The GeoServer Team -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss at lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -------------- 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 Thu Mar 21 03:17:27 2013 From: a.ghisla at gmail.com (Anne Ghisla) Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:17:27 +0100 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] GeoTools 9.0 Released Message-ID: <20130321111727.0103516d@galadriel.localdomain> The GeoTools community is pleased to announce the availability of GeoTools 9.0 for download from sourceforge (https://sourceforge.net/projects/geotools/files/GeoTools%209%20Releases/9.0-RC1): geotools-9.0-bin.zip (http://sourceforge.net/projects/geotools/files/GeoTools%209%20Releases/9.0-RC1/geotools-9.0-bin.zip/download) geotools-9.0-doc.zip (http://sourceforge.net/projects/geotools/files/GeoTools%209%20Releases/9.0-RC1/geotools-9.0-doc.zip/download) geotools-9.0-userguide.zip (http://sourceforge.net/projects/geotools/files/GeoTools%209%20Releases/9.0-RC1/geotools-9.0-userguide.zip/download) geotools-9.0-project.zip (http://sourceforge.net/projects/geotools/files/GeoTools%209%20Releases/9.0-RC1/geotools-9.0-project.zip/download) This release is also deployed to our OSGeo Maven Repository (http://download.osgeo.org/webdav/geotools/org/geotools/). This is the first stable release of the 9.x (http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/9.x) series made in conjunction with the GeoServer 2.3.0 (http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/GeoServer+2.3.0) release. This release represents the successful transition of the project to a six month timed release (http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Timed+Release) cycle. This release contains mostly bug fixes since 9.0-RC1 (http://geotoolsnews.blogspot.it/2013/02/geotools-90-rc1-released.html). Please see the change log (http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10270&version=19068) for more details. Here is a summary of the major news in the 9.x series: Feature Collection Clean up (http://geotoolsnews.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/featurecollection-cleanup.html): we have retired several methods from FeatureCollection that were only applicable for in memory feature collections. A Quality Assurance review was performed on all FeatureCollection implementations resulting in a great improvement on consistency. Thanks to Jody Garnett and Andrea Aime for this work. The Vector Grid (http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Vector+grids) module has graduated from the "unsupported" staging area and is now included as an extension. Thanks to Micheal Bedward for championing this work. General support for complex features has been factored out into the gt-complex (http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Separate+general+complex+feature+classes+from+gt-app-schema) module for reuse. FeatureCollection, FeatureIteartor and FeatureReader are Java 7 ready with support for try-with-resource syntax (http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Java+7+try-with-resource+compatibility). Partial 3D data support (http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Partial+3D+data+support) has been added with direct support for PostGIS, Oracle, and Property DataStore. Thanks to Andrea Aime for the initial implementation, with a follow-up funded by NTLIS (http://www.nt.gov.au/ntlis/) for Oracle support. Thanks to Niels Charlier for putting together ReferenceEnvelope3D (http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Support+for+three-dimensional+envelopes+and+bounding+box+filters) allowing us to query three-dimensional datasets. WMS client support has greatly improved with WMS 1.3.0 now enabled by default during version negotiation. Thanks to LISAsoft and the OGC for supporting this work. New OGC models have been added for WCS 2.0 (https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-4333) and OWS 2.0 (https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-4332) along with XML support (https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-4376). Updated to use the latest ImageIO-Ext 1.1.6 (https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-4370) and JTS 1.13 (https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-4348) releases The GeoTools 9.0 series contains API changes. Developers are encouraged to review the upgrade instructions (http://docs.geotools.org/latest/userguide/welcome/upgrade.html) prior to use. If you missed the previous milestones, betas and RCs you can have a look at the complete set of improvements provided by the 9.0 series here: GeoTools 9.0 Release Notes (http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10270&version=19068) GeoTools 9.0-RC1 Release Notes (http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10270&version=19067) GeoTools 9.0-beta1 Release Notes (https://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10270&version=18966) GeoTools 9.0-M0 Release Notes (https://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10270&version=18643) Thanks to Andrea and GeoSolutions for putting this release out. Enjoy, The GeoTools Community http://geotools.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In 2011, the International Cartographic Association (ICA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) with the aim to develop global collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organisations in the field of open source GIS software and data. The MoU aims to provide expertise and support for the establishment of Open Source Geospatial Laboratories and Research Centres across the world to support the development of open source geospatial software technologies, training and expertise. Responding through research to global challenges, the University of Warwick introduced the Global Research Priorities strategy, which aims to focus Warwick's world-class, multidisciplinary research on key areas of international significance, by bringing together scholarly expertise from across faculties and departments. Themes for the GRPs were approved by Research Committee in September 2011: Connecting Cultures, Energy, Food, Global Governance, Innovative Manufacturing, International Development, Materials, Science and Technology for Health and Sustainable Cities. These will seek to combine areas of research strength in the University, across departmental boundaries, in order to enhance the ability to respond to funding bodies'priorities. The establishment of dedicated open geospatial lab within the School of Life Sciences will help to accelerate opportunities in research and teaching for stimulating knowledge and information exchange for creative thinking withing and across GRP groups. This integrated research strategy applies multiple technologies to the study of a wide range of connected systems to generate fundamental knowledge as well as a range of impacts of direct relevance to the wider community. Prof. Liz Dowler of Warwick University said "Hurrah for this: everyone loves 'maps' and 'visualisations' - they speak volumes and are invaluable for making key points." The website of the new lab is at http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesci/research/facilities/geolab/ OSGeo is a not-for-profit organization founded in 2006 whose mission is to support and promote the collaborative development of open source geospatial technologies and data. ICA is the world authoritative body for cartography, the discipline dealing with the conception, production, dissemination and study of maps. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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It also supports other well known standards such as the Web Map and Web Processing service. GeoServer is supported by an easy-to-use web configuration and a full REST API for configuration. Graduating incubation includes fulfilling requirements for open community operation, a responsible project governance model, code provenance, and general good project operation. Graduation is the OSGeo seal of approval for a project and gives potential users and the community at large an added confidence in the viability and safety of the project. The project steering committee says, "The GeoServer team is thrilled to be recognized as a full OSGeo project. There have been strong ties between the two communities with GeoServer developers being involved as charter members, volunteering at the committee level and represented in local OSGeo chapters and helping with FOSS4G. We are very happy to be included as part of OSGeo and a member of such an esteemed group of projects." OSGeo would also like to thank Landon Blake, Jody Garnett, the Aust-NZ OSGeo Chapter, the Free Software Foundation, and The Eclipse Foundation for their assistance during this Incubation process. Congratulations to the GeoServer community! GeoServer website http://geoserver.org/ OSGeo Incubator 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: