From a.ghisla at gmail.com Tue Sep 3 05:33:37 2013 From: a.ghisla at gmail.com (Anne Ghisla) Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 14:33:37 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] First ICA-OSGeo Lab in Switzerland established at SUPSI Message-ID: <20130903143337.74f73603@galadriel.localdomain> We are pleased to announce that the first Open Source Geospatial Lab in Switzerland is established at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI) http://www.supsi.ch/home_en.html In a society marked by profound changes, the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI) produces, develops and disseminates knowledge and expertise as propellant forces fundamental to support the economic, social, technological and artistic progress, and to contribute to the cultural and ethical growth of both society as a whole and its individual members. In this context, the Institute of Earth Sciences (IST) is a historical research and education institution, integrated in SUPSI and mainly involved in activities strictly related to the environment and its characteristics. It is composed of specialists in management of surface water and groundwater, natural hazards assessment, geological analyses, environmental databases, natural resource monitoring and geographic information systems (GIS). The geomatics division at the IST is particularly active in the field of the open source software, open standard and management of real time data collected from automatic monitoring network. This open source geospatial laboratory is a joint initiative of the International Cartographic Association (ICA) and the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). The lab will be led by Professor Massimiliano Cannata. He also leads the Division of Geomatics http://www.supsi.ch/ist_en/settori-attivita/geomatica.html Massimiliano is also an OSGeo Charter member and an active member of the open source geospatial community. His laboratory is also the developer of the Free and Open Source Sensor Observation Service Data Management System( istSOS ) which implements the SOS standard. Details at http://istgeo.ist.supsi.ch/software/istsos/ OSGeo is a not-for-profit organisation 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 can render, investigate, and even edit layers without the need to write a single line of code. GeoMoose is written using JavaScript and HTML. XML configuration files are used to allow configuration too meet the needs of a variety of common web-based GIS viewers. Besides the viewer, GeoMoose also comes prepackaged with a number of built in geospatial services written in PHP. These services add the ability to perform drill-down identify operations, selection operations, and search data sets. GeoMoose leverages other open source projects such as MapServer, OpenLayers, Proj4js and Dojo Toolkit to take advantage of other project?s hard work that has went into those projects. 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. As officially sanctioned software, GeoMoose will be a featured project on the OSGeo website and joins MapServer (www.mapserver.org) as only the second program with Minnesota origins to be endorsed by OSGeo. GeoMoose software is downloadable for free, and is useable based on a MIT open source license. Congratulations to the GeoMoose community! [0] http://www.geomoose.org/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Based on the synergistic coupling of spatiotemporal and computational thinking, major research themes of CAGIS consist of 1) CyberGIS for large-scale geographical problem-solving, 2) Land use/cover change and sustainability, 3) Complexity theory and geospatial modeling, 4) Big data and space-time analytics, 5) Remote sensing, sensor networks and volunteered geographic information, 6) Computational intelligence for geocomputational modeling, 7) Cartography and geovisualization, and 8) Open source GIS. CAGIS has unique strength in these cutting-edge research themes and has intensive interest in their applications in alternative spatially integrated domains, including environmental studies, ecology, earth science, hydrology, spatial epidemiology, social science, transportation, urban regional analysis and policies. More details at http://gis.uncc.edu . This open source geospatial laboratory (https://gis.uncc.edu/osgl) is a joint initiative of the International Cartographic Association (ICA) and the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). The lab will be led by Dr. Wenwu Tang (Executive director of CAGIS) and Dr. Xingjian Liu with support from two full-time permanent positions: Director of Research & Outreach (John B. Vogler) and Resident Systems Administrator (Jason Watson). The facility has a well-equipped computational laboratory specializing in technologies for spatial analysis and geocomputation, spatial cyberinfrastructure, and big spatial data. It has also has access to advanced supercomputing computing resources held by US NSF XSEDE (https://www.xsede.org/), Open Science Grid (http://www.opensciencegrid.org/), RENCI (Renaissance Computing Institute; http://www.renci.org/), and URC (University Research Computing; http://www.urc.uncc.edu/) at UNC Charlotte. OSGeo is a not-for-profit organisation 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... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: not available URL: From a.ghisla at gmail.com Sun Sep 15 10:10:22 2013 From: a.ghisla at gmail.com (Anne Ghisla) Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 19:10:22 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo Receives 501(c)(4) Tax Exempt Status Message-ID: <20130915191022.0b0baa74@galadriel.localdomain> OSGeo is pleased to announce that the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has accepted our application [1] for non-profit status under section 501(c)(4) of the tax code. Our 501(c)(4) status declares that we are a Social Welfare Organization [2]. This determination affirms OSGeo's role in serving the public through our mission, focused around Open Source Geospatial software. This determination helps ensure that the organization will not have to pay US federal taxes on money accumulated toward the fulfilment of our mission. Unfortunately, unlike a 501(c)(3) (Charitable) status, this does not allow financial contributors to OSGeo to treat the contributions as a charitable contribution which can have a tax benefit for US tax payers. There should still be no problem with commercial organizations treating contributions to OSGeo as a business expense. OSGeo owes a special debt to past Executive Director Tyler Mitchell, and current Treasurer Daniel Morissette who have carried this process to a successful conclusion after several years of work. Current OSGeo President, Jeff McKenna, says "Both Daniel and Tyler should be thanked by the entire community for their dedication to such a challenging task. Our future foundation events, and OSGeo in general, will benefit from their hard work for years to come." About the Open Source Geospatial Foundation The Open Source Geospatial Foundation, or OSGeo [3], is a not-for-profit organization founded in 2006 whose mission is to support and promote the collaborative development of open geospatial technologies and data. The Foundation provides financial, organizational and legal support to the broader open source geospatial community. It also serves as an independent legal entity to which community members can contribute code, funding and other resources, secure in the knowledge that their contributions will be maintained for public benefit. [1] http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/board/irs_docs/OSGeo-Determination_Letters_c3andc4-20130909.pdf [2] http://www.irs.gov/Charities-&-Non-Profits/Other-Non-Profits/Social-Welfare-Organizations [3] http://www.osgeo.org/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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In 2011, with the establishment of the new chair of Geoinformation Engineering, the scope of activities of the institute was expanded and its name was adapted. In cartography, the institute strives to maintain its leading position in topographic cartography (relief representation), thematic cartography, and atlas cartography (school atlases, national atlases) by exploiting and further developing cartographic knowledge and adapting it to new interactive technologies and application domains. Geoinformation Engineering aims at analyzing, representing, modelling, and visualizing spatio-temporal decision processes and integrates such models in mobile geoinformation services and spatial information technologies. The OSGL at ETH Zurich will be actively implementing the Memorandum of Understanding signed between the International Cartographic Association (ICA) and the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo), with the vision to support the development of open-source geospatial software technologies, training and expertise. It also aims to provide support for increasing the number and quality of open source teaching and training materials for Cartography and GIS. As a proud member of the ICA-OSGeo Network [3], the ETH Zurich OSGL is focusing on Education, Open Geodata and on Cartographic and Geospatial Research. Additionally the laboratory is participating in the ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies [4] and through the Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation [5] as an associate member in Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) [6]. The lab starts with expertise in several OSGeo projects such as Quantum GIS, OpenLayers, PostGIS and GDAL/OGR. A special attention will be given to QGIS Server, since it was conceived as a research project at the Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation [2]. Furthermore the lab is proud to have joined a collaboration in the areas of Education and Research with the industry partner Sourcepole [7]. The ETH Zurich OSGL will be led by Dr. Ionu? Iosifescu [8] with support from several members of the Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation. Please check the lab webpage for the full list of team members and the assigned areas of responsibility, as well as for the upcoming training possibilities [9]. OSGeo is a not-for-profit organisation 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 and Geographic Information Science. [0] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ICA [1] http://karlinapp.ethz.ch/osgl/index.html [2] http://www.ikg.ethz.ch/karto/index_EN [3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Edu_current_initiatives [4] http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/ [5] http://www.ikg.ethz.ch/index_EN [6] http://www.opengeospatial.org [7] http://www.sourcepole.ch [8] http://www.ikg.ethz.ch/people/staff/iionut/index_EN [9] http://karlinapp.ethz.ch/osgl/Training.html -------------- 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 Tue Sep 24 08:34:39 2013 From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam) Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 08:34:39 -0700 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Arnulf Christl Receives Sol Katz Award Message-ID: Arnulf Christl was honored Friday with the 2013 Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software during the FOSS4G 2013 conference in Notthingham, UK. The award was presented by Jeff McKenna, the president of OSGeo. Arnulf's dedication to open source geospatial software, and the community and ideals around it are widely recognised. He played a large role in the Mapbender project, and was a founding director of OSGeo, as well as serving as president for several years. He has also been a key bridge between OSGeo and the Open Geospatial Consortium, emphasizing the duality of open source and open standards. He continues to advocate for these ideals inside and outside OSGeo. 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. 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 a.ghisla at gmail.com Tue Sep 24 08:42:59 2013 From: a.ghisla at gmail.com (Anne Ghisla) Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 17:42:59 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Announcing the release of QGIS 2.0 Message-ID: <20130924174259.1df80cfa@galadriel.localdomain> QGIS is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows. We are very pleased to announce the release of QGIS 2.0.1 ?Dufour?. This release contains new features and extends the programmatic interface over QGIS the 1.x release series. Binary and source code packages are available via the large download link on our home page: http://qgis.org If there is not yet a package for your platform on the above page, please check back regularly as packagers are still pushing out their work and they will update the download page to reflect the new packages. Along with the release of QGIS 2.0.1, the QGIS Community Team is hard at work on an updated QGIS Users? Guide version 2.0.1. The guide will be available in the near future - we will post announcements when it is available. We are also pleased to announce our new web site is now available at http://qgis.org - and we thank Boundless (http://boundlessgeo.com) for sponsoring web developer time to make the new web site look beautiful, and our web team for the awesome job they have done. A word of thanks to our contributors, donors and sponsors --------------------------------------------------------- QGIS is a largely volunteer driven project, and is the work of a dedicated team of developers, documenters and supporters. We extend our thanks and gratitude for the many, many hours people have contributed to make this release happen. Many companies and organisations contribute back improvements to QGIS when they use it as their platform, and we are grateful for this and encourage others to do the same! We would also like to thank our sponsors and donors for helping to promote our work through their financial contributions. Our current sponsors are (QGIS Sponsorship is valid for one year): Gold Sponsor: Asia Air Survey http://www.asiaairsurvey.com/ Silver Sponsor: State of Vorarlberg (http://www.vorarlberg.at) Bronze Sponsors: FOSSGIS.DE (http://www.fossgis.de/) and Kanton Solothurn (http://www.agi.so.ch/) A special thanks also to the QGIS User Group Switzerland for co-funding bug fixing activities in the lead up to the release! A current list of donors who have made contributions large and small to the project can be seen here: http://qgis.org/html/en/site/about/sponsorship.html#donation If you would like to make a donation or sponsor our project, please visit http://qgis.org/html/en/site/about/sponsorship.html#sponsorship QGIS is Free software and you are under no obligation to do so. Sponsoring QGIS helps us to fund our six monthly developer meetings, maintain project infrastructure and fund bug fixing efforts. Visual tour of the new release: ------------------------------- You can find a list of highlighted changes and new features listed on the detailed release announcement available here: http://qgis.org/en/docs/user_manual/preamble/whats_new.html Give us your feedback: ---------------------- We welcome your feedback - please visit our issue tracker if you encounter an issue with the new release: http://hub.qgis.org/ Please consult the existing issues there before lodging any new ones. Happy QGIS?ing! Regards, The QGIS Team -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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This library contains following features: * All Pairs Shortest Path, Johnson?s Algorithm **NEW** * All Pairs Shortest Path, Floyd-Warshall Algorithm **NEW** * Shortest Path A* * Bi-directional Dijkstra Shortest Path **NEW** * Bi-directional A* Shortest Path **NEW** * Shortest Path Dijkstra * Driving Distance * K-Shortest Path, Multiple Alternative Paths **NEW** * K-Dijkstra, One to Many Shortest Path **NEW** * Traveling Sales Person **NEW Implementation** * Turn Restriction Shortest Path (TRSP) **NEW** * New functions for creating routing topology * New functions for analyzing a graph for problems ## Migration Guide pgRouting 2.0 is **not** backwards compatible with the 1.x version. This is a significant overhaul of the whole pgRouting environment and we have renamed all the functions and rationalized the arguments and return types. While this will be a painful migration for 1.x applications, we believe the new functionality, the high quality of the code, and new documentation will make it much easier to grow the product and support it over future releases. ## Source Code Download See website: http://pgrouting.org/download.html Packages for Ubuntu can be installed from the Launchpad repository: https://launchpad.net/~georepublic/+archive/pgrouting ### REQUIREMENTS * C and C++ compilers * Postgresql version >= 8.4 (9.1 or higher recommended) * PostGIS version >= 1.5 (2.0 or higher recommended) * The Boost Graph Library (BGL). * CMake >= 2.8.8 * (optional, for Driving Distance) CGAL * (optional, for Documentation) Sphinx You can download a zipfile from github via: https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/archive/master.zip Or you can clone the git repository and build it with: git clone -b master https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting.git cd pgrouting mkdir build && cd build cmake -DWITH_DOC=NO . make sudo make install cd .. tools/test-runner.pl ## More Resources: * The pgRouting project website: http://pgrouting.org * The new pgRouting documentation: http://docs.pgrouting.org * An updated pgRouting workshop: http://workshop.pgrouting.org * pgRouting support: http://pgrouting.org/support.html ## Thanks Thank you to all of the users, developers, and supporters of pgRouting. We would like to call out special thanks to CSIS (University of Tokyo), Georepublic, Paragon Corporation, iMaptools.com and to Vicky Vergara for their time and support that really made this release possible. We also had a lot of support from our users testing releases, submitting patches, reporting issues and our apologies for not being able to list everyone by name but we do appreciate everyone's efforts. Enjoy. The pgRouting Team -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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About GeoTools 10.x Series Summary of the new features for the GeoTools 10.x series: * Structured grid coverage readers [7] allow raster data sources that publish composite data products to expose individual rasters (ie granules) for processing, while still providing a seamless experience for rendering. The mosaic and NetCDF modules are the first ones to implement these new interfaces. * Efficient support for multiple coverages in GridCoverageReader [8] provides ad-hoc access to raster formats that publish more that one data product. A image mosaic made of NetCDF granules and single file NetCDF sources are the first implementors of these new capabilities * A new implementation of Shapefile DataStore [9] (based on ContentDataStore superclass). This upgrade should be seamless for all users using DataStoreFactoryFinder. If you explicitly made use of the ShapefileDataStore or IndexedShapefileDataStore class please check the upgrade instructions. * The transform [10] module graduated to supported status, providing a seamless way to rename, retype and hide SimpleFeatureSource attributes, as well as creating new ones based on OGC Expression * Additional OGC modules for the WCS 2.0 and WCS 2.0 EO models as well as adding XML parsers and encoders The 10.x series has a number of research and development activities that may be of interest: * NetCDF has been updated to take advantage of the new coverage API introduced above * GeoPackage: a sample implementation of the geopackage spec that is currently being developed by the OGC While exciting, this functionally is looking for volunteers and/or funding to meet our quality assurance standards. If you are interested please introduce yourself on geotools-devel [11] (or check out options for commercial support [12]). Enjoy, The GeoTools Community http://geotools.org [0] http://sourceforge.net/projects/geotools/files/GeoTools%2010%20Releases/10-RC2/ [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/geotools/files/GeoTools%2010%20Releases/10.0/geotools-10.0-bin.zip/download [2] http://sourceforge.net/projects/geotools/files/GeoTools%2010%20Releases/10.0/geotools-10.0-doc.zip/download [3] http://sourceforge.net/projects/geotools/files/GeoTools%2010%20Releases/10.0/geotools-10.0-userguide.zip/download [4] http://sourceforge.net/projects/geotools/files/GeoTools%2010%20Releases/10.0/geotools-10.0-project.zip/download [5] http://download.osgeo.org/webdav/geotools/ [6] https://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10270&version=19564 [7] http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Structured+grid+coverage+readers [8] http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Efficient+support+for+multiple+coverages+in+GridCoverageReader [9] http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Migrate+shapefile+to+shapefile-ng [10] http://docs.geotools.org/latest/userguide/library/referencing/transform.html [11] http://docs.geotools.org/latest/developer/communication.html [12] http://docs.geotools.org/latest/userguide/welcome/support.html#commercial-support -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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