From a.ghisla at gmail.com Fri May 2 02:48:06 2014 From: a.ghisla at gmail.com (Anne Ghisla) Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 11:48:06 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] GDAL/OGR 1.11.0 released Message-ID: <20140502114806.09361302@galadriel.localdomain> On behalf of the GDAL/OGR development team and community, I am pleased to announce the release of GDAL/OGR 1.11.0. GDAL/OGR is a C++ geospatial data access library for raster and vector file formats, databases and web services. It includes bindings for several languages, and a variety of command line tools. http://www.gdal.org/ The 1.11.0 release is a major new feature release with the following highlights: * New GDAL drivers: - KRO: read/write support for KRO KOKOR Raw format http://gdal.org/frmt_various.html#KRO * New OGR drivers: - CartoDB : read/write support http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_cartodb.html - GME / Google Map Engine : read/write support http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/GMEDriver - GPKG / GeoPackage : read-write support (vector part of the spec.) http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_geopackage.html - OpenFileGDB: read-only support (no external dependency) http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_openfilegdb.html - SXF: read-only support http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_sxf.html - WALK: read-only support http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_walk.html - WasP .map : read-write support http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_wasp.html * Significantly improved drivers: GML, LIBKML * RFC 40: enhanced RAT support http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc40_enhanced_rat_support * RFC 41: multiple geometry fields support http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc41_multiple_geometry_fields * RFC 42: OGR Layer laundered field lookup http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc42_find_laundered_fields * RFC 43: add GDALMajorObject::GetMetadataDomainList() (#5275) http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc43_getmetadatadomainlist * RFC 45: GDAL datasets and raster bands as virtual memory mapping http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc45_virtualmem * Upgrade to EPSG 8.2 database More complete information on the new features and fixes in the 1.11.0 release can be found at: http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/1.11.0-News The new release can be downloaded from: * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/1.11.0/gdal1110.zip - source as a zip * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/1.11.0/gdal-1.11.0.tar.gz - source as .tar.gz * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/1.11.0/gdalautotest-1.11.0.tar.gz - test suite * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/1.11.0/gdal1110doc.zip - documentation / website From a.ghisla at gmail.com Wed May 21 00:50:30 2014 From: a.ghisla at gmail.com (Anne Ghisla) Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 07:50:30 +0000 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] FOSS4G Update: Keynotes, Travel Grants, Volunteer Discounts Message-ID: ** Two new keynote speakers added to 2014 lineup ------------------------------------------------------------ We are delighted to announce Sarah Novotny of NGINX and Al Shaw of ProPublica as keynote speakers for FOSS4G 2014. They join Mike Bostock of the New York Times in this year's lineup. Novotny is a technical evangelist and community manager for NGINX, founder of Blue Gecko, and is currently a program chair for O?Reilly Media?s OSCON. Shaw is a news applications developer at ProPublica and the creator of an award winning series of interactive maps documenting FEMA's response to Hurricane Sandy. ** Travel Grant Program ------------------------------------------------------------ To make sure that as many deserving people as possible can attend FOSS4G, we have created a travel grant program with funds to help cover registration, lodging, and travel costs. If you are excited about open source geospatial work but have economic barriers to attendance, we strongly encourage you to apply. Applications are due May 30th, and awardees will be notified mid-June. Our travel grants are community funded; your donations help bring more of your colleagues to the conference. Consider an additional donation when you register for the conference or as a stand-alone contribution. If every attendee gave just $20, we could bring an additional 20 people to the conference. ** Volunteer Discounts ------------------------------------------------------------ We will also have a limited number of volunteer positions available; in exchange for a full day of work, volunteers will be eligible for a discounted rate of $125. Students will be given preference for these volunteer positions until July 1st. More details on the volunteer program and travel grants. ** Important Conference Dates ------------------------------------------------------------ See the full calendar (https://2014.foss4g.org/about/calendar/) for more details. * June 15th: Early bird registration ends * Sept 8th-9th: Workshops * Sept 10th-12th: Main Conference * Sept 13th: Code Sprint From a.ghisla at gmail.com Fri May 23 06:59:43 2014 From: a.ghisla at gmail.com (Anne Ghisla) Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 15:59:43 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] FOSS4G-Europe 2014 -- Early Bird Registration extended to May 30 Message-ID: <20140523155943.3630c416@galadriel.localdomain> It's been a busy few weeks as things start to come together for FOSS4G Europe 2014 -- but now, admittedly with some delay, we have managed the challenge of compiling an exciting program, to be published over the next days. To give everyone time to have a look at the schedule before booking, we've extended the Early Bird registration deadline to May 30, 2014. http://www.foss4g-e.org/registration In the meantime, many thanks to all who submitted abstracts -- it has been a challenge to select the best of all excellent submissions passed in the last weeks. Altogether, the conference received about 78 abstracts in the general and 16 for the academic track. Every abstract has been carefully evaluated by the program committee to obtain a fair ranking. On the whole there has been a very satisfying presence of topics relating to the relevant Open-Source- tools like GeoServer, MapServer, Zoo, rasdaman, Grass, and several more. As well OGC-standards like WMS, WMS, WCS, WCPS, WPS, and SOS have the attention of the community. All in all the bandwidth of proposals shows a good representation of the general trends in the geospatial world. In addition the Local Organizing Committee has secured facilities to run additional workshops and a code sprint during the conference. A lot of registrations form Europe and beyond have poured in already, so make sure you are part of the crowd in this visionary European geo happening. Sign in now! http://www.foss4g-e.org/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: not available URL: