From jsanz at osgeo.org Wed Jul 8 01:23:50 2015 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 10:23:50 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] FOSS4G 2017 RFP Message-ID: The OSGeo Conference Committee is happy to announce the call for hosting the FOSS4G 2017 event. Year after year, building on the success of previous conferences, excitement builds for the next FOSS4G! This year is no different with much excitement for Seoul, South Korea (http://2015.foss4g.org/). OSGeo again plans to make the 2017 event the geospatial conference of the year. Please see the following page for the actual request for proposals document, as well as upcoming important dates: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2017_Bid_Process If you have any questions regarding the 2017 call for hosting, feel free to send an email to the conference-dev mailing list (subscribe at http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev). Thank you. -- OSGeo Conference Committee From jsanz at osgeo.org Fri Jul 10 01:11:40 2015 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 10:11:40 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Call for papers 5th International Workshop on Mobile Entity Localization and Tracking in GPS-less Environments Message-ID: ******************************************************* 5th International Workshop on Mobile Entity Localization and Tracking in GPS-less Environments co-located with ACM SIGSPATIAL 2015 November 3, 2015 -- Seattle, Washington, USA ******************************************************* Call for papers https://sites.google.com/site/meltworks/home The mobile and sensing research communities have made remarkable progress in location sensing and activity detection in the recent years. However, many challenging problems still remain, including location and activity recognition accuracy, power management, effective sensor fusion, spatial environment representation, labor-less environmental surveys, crowd computing, and big data analytics of real-time and historical semantic locations and activities. We are soliciting papers and extended abstracts of up to four proceeding pages long. All contributions that deal with the scientific analysis of location and activity data sets are welcome. The papers for the workshop may include previously published or submitted work. Workshop Scope: The workshop specifically solicits research including but not limited to the following topics: Algorithms: Heterogeneous sensor data fusion for mapping and localization, probabilistic and statistical inferences, optimization, signal processing, and machine learning techniques for MELT problems, analysis of trade-offs of performance metrics (e.g. accuracy vs. time and cost), collaborative localization and mapping techniques, ad-hoc or opportunistic localization and mapping, efficient fingerprinting techniques, location data mining and prediction, location data acquisition and interpretation, energy-efficient localization and tracking methods, big data analytics, activity recognition using multi-modal sensor data, real-time and historical semantic localization; Representations: Indoor map representations and automatic region or outline extractions, local and global maps and locations, geographical vs. topological maps, sparse vs. dense maps, map annotations, point of interest graphs, dynamic maps with real-time information, map markup languages or standardization, semantic location extraction and representation; Systems: Localization systems on smartphones or mobile platforms, integrated with heterogeneous sensors (Wifi signal strength, inertial sensing, compass, odometry, etc.), efficient and accurate mapping systems using 2D or 3D cameras, active lighting or laser range finders; User Interfaces: Effective interface for entering and presenting maps and locations, notes or annotations for point of interests, innovative mechanisms for representing topological relations or maps with partial geographic information, efficient survey and mapping techniques; Applications: Emergence personal localization, vehicular tracking in GPS-less areas, sports and entertainments, fleet management; asset, yard or inventory tracking, location-based recommendation or activity management. Paper Submission Details: Authors are invited to submit a short paper or an extended abstract up to four pages of new or previously published work. Manuscripts should be submitted in PDF format and formatted using the ACM camera-ready templates available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. All submissions will be refereed for quality and relevance by the Program Committee. Submission URL: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=melt2015 The proceedings of the workshops are expected to be published jointly with the conference proceedings and will appear in the ACM Digital Library. One author per accepted workshop contribution (paper, poster, demo) is required to register for the workshop and the conference, as well as attend the workshop to present the accepted submission. Important Dates August 31, Monday, 2015, 23:59 PS Paper due September 18, Friday, 2015 Acceptance notification September 28, Monday, 2015 Camera ready submission November 3, Tuesday, 2015 Workshop date Organizers General Co-Chairs: Ying Zhang, Google, USA. Bodhi Priyantha, Microsoft Research, USA Program Chair: Alexander Varshavsky, Google, USA Publicity Chair Jing (David) Dai, Google, USA Local Chair: Mark L. Chang, Google, USA Finance Chair: Richard Fuller, OmniTrail Technologies, USA Panel Chair: Bhaskar Mehta, Google, USA Advisory Committee: Saumitra Das, Qualcomm, USA Lukas Kencl, Czech Technical University, Czech Jie Liu, Microsoft Research, USA Technical Program Committee: Mark L. Chang, Google, USA Xin Chen, HERE/Nokia, USA Yao-Yi Chiang, University of Southern California, USA Saumitra Das, Qualcomm, USA Michal Ficek, Telefonica, Spain Richard Fuller, OmniTrail, USA Lukas Kencl, Czech Technical University, Czech John Krumm, Microsoft Research, USA Jie Liu, Microsoft Research, USA Sherman Lo, Stanford University, USA Chuanjiang Luo, Google, USA Bhaskar Mehta, Google, USA Bodhi Priyantha, Microsoft Research, USA Jing (David) Dai, Google, USA Alexander Varshavsky, Google, USA Joy Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Ying Zhang, Google, USA From jsanz at osgeo.org Sat Jul 11 00:07:07 2015 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2015 09:07:07 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Call for Papers: The Sixth ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on GeoStreaming Message-ID: The Sixth ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on GeoStreaming (IWGS 2015) in conjunction with the 23rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2015) November 3, 2015, Seattle, Washington http://iwgeostream.com/ Call for Papers Aim and Scope: ----------------- We are entering the era of "big data" thanks to the exponential growth and availability of structured and unstructured data, among which a large amount are real-time streaming data emitted from sensors, imagery and mobile devices. In addition to the temporal nature of stream data, various sources provide stream data that has geographical locations and/or spatial extents, such as geotagging twitter streams, mobile GPS location streams, spatial temporal image streams, and so on. On one hand, this amount of streamed data has been a major propeller to advance the state of the art in geographic information systems. On the other hand, the ability to process, mine, and analyze that massive amount of data in a timely manner prevented researchers from making full use of the incoming stream data. The geostreaming term refers to the ongoing effort in academia and industry to process, mine and analyze stream data with geographic and spatial information. This workshop addresses the research communities in both stream processing and geographic information systems. It brings together experts in the field from academia, industry and research labs to discuss the lessons they have learned over the years, to demonstrate what they have achieved so far, and to plan for the future of "GeoStreaming". We encourage researchers from academia and industry to submit papers that highlight the value of GeoStream data processing, analyzing, and mining on topics that include, but not limited to the following: * Spatio-temporal stream systems * Spatio-temporal stream query processing * Real-time mining of spatial and spatio-temporal data * Location-aware stream systems * Privacy preserving in mobile object databases * Traffic monitoring and prediction * Geosensing technologies and their application * Geosampling and probabilistic spatial stream query processing * Real-time geographical information extraction and retrieval * Geosocial networks * Main memory and/or real time indexing of moving objects * Real-time spatial data visualization * Spatio-temporal stream processing on cloud * Participatory spatio-temporal data streams and Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) systems * Use of hardware acceleration in real-time stream processing * The use of stream processing in traffic management, aerospace, earthquake physics, geodynamics, weather forecasting, asset management and scientific applications Note: Extended versions of selected IWGS papers will be invited for publication at a Special Issue of GeoInformatica on GeoStreaming. Paper Submission: ------------------------ We welcome submissions of both technical papers and vision/position papers: * Full research paper: up to 10 pages (8 pages recommended) * Short technical or vision paper: up to 4 pages Papers must be electronically submitted in PDF format at the following submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwgs2015 Note: This year there will be awards for best full paper and best short/vision paper at the workshop. Organizers: -------------- * Farnoush Banaei-Kashani, University of Colorado Denver * Chengyang Zhang, Teradata Inc. * Abdeltawab Hendawi, University of Washington Tacoma Program Committee: ------------------------ * Mohamed Mokbel, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities * Zdravko Galic, University of Zagreb * Yan Huang, University of North Texas * Timos Sellis , RMIT University, Australia * Mohammed Al-Kateb, Teradata * Bao Jie, Microsoft Research Asia * Chi-Yin Chow, City University of Hong Kong Important Dates: ------------------- Paper Submission Deadline: August 24, 2015 Notification of Acceptance: September 21, 2015 Camera-Ready Submissions: October 1, 2015 Workshop Date: November 3, 2015 From jsanz at osgeo.org Wed Jul 15 06:01:04 2015 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 15:01:04 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] =?utf-8?q?American_Geographical_Society_Announce?= =?utf-8?q?s_Endorsement_of_the_=E2=80=9CGeo_for_All=E2=80=9D_Initi?= =?utf-8?q?ative?= Message-ID: It is our great pleasure to share the excellent development of the American Geographical Society's endorsement of the ?Geo for All Initiative?, developed by the International Cartographic Association (ICA) and the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). ?Geo for All? aims to provide expertise and support for the establishment of Open Source Geospatial Laboratories and Research Centers across the world for supporting development of open-source geospatial software technologies, training, and expertise. Established in 1851, the American Geographical Society http://americangeo.org is the oldest professional geographical organization in the United States. It is recognized world-wide as a pioneer in geographical research and education in geography for over 163 years. The mission of AGS is to advance geographic knowledge and the recognition of its importance in the contemporary world. AGS promotes the use of geography in business, government, science, and education with a goal to enhance the nation?s geographic literacy so as to engender sound public policy, national security, and human well-being worldwide. AGS is the only organization focused on bringing together academics, business people, those who influence public policy (including leaders in local, state and federal government, not-for-profit organizations and the media), and the general public for the express purpose of furthering the understanding of the role of geography in our lives. AGS provides leadership to frame the national discussion of the growing importance of geography and geo-spatial tools. The Society maintains its headquarters in Brooklyn Heights, New York. More details at http://americangeo.org/7142015-american-geographical-society-announces-endorsement-of-the-geo-for-all-initiative/ This endorsement from the American Geographical Society comes at an important phase in our development. We crossed our 100th lab milestone last week with UCL as our 101st Open Source Geospatial Lab bringing together staff and students from the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, the Department of Archaeology and the Department of Geography at UCL . Details at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/gis/OSGeo Right now at Como in Italy at FOSS4G-Europe http://europe.foss4g.org/2015/ , our colleagues are meeting to discuss our future expansion plans in particular for discussing GeoForAll expansion to thousands of schools globally and expand our teacher training initiatives with collaboration from governments , industry and universities globally. This endorsement from the American Geographical Society is a great boost to all our "Geo for All" colleagues worldwide. "Geo for All" started from nothing and it is 100 percent the efforts of all our colleagues from OSGeo, ICA and ISPRS who joined together on a common education mission that made this all possible. I am grateful to each and every colleague for their hardwork and dedication for our mission for building a better world and better future for all our future generations. This is just the start and we look forward to working with all for making education and opportunities accessible to all. Best wishes, Suchith Anand http://www.geoforall.org From jsanz at osgeo.org Mon Jul 20 05:06:35 2015 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 14:06:35 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] GRASS GIS 6.4.5 released Message-ID: We are pleased to announce the new stable release of GRASS GIS 6.4.5 After months of development the GRASS GIS 6.4.5 release is now available. This is a stability release of the GRASS GIS 6 line. Source code download: http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/source/ http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/source/grass-6.4.5.tar.gz Binaries download: http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/#g64x To get the GRASS GIS 6.4.5 source code directly from SVN: svn checkout http://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/tags/release_20150712_grass_6_4_5 Key improvements: Key improvements of the GRASS GIS 6.4.5 release include stability fixes (esp. concerning the vector library), selected fixes for wxPython3 support, selected module fixes, and more message translations. See also our detailed announcement: http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/6.4.5-News First time users should explore the first steps tutorial after installation: http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Quick_wxGUI_tutorial Please join us in testing this release candidate for the final release. Consider to donate pizza or beer for the next GRASS GIS Community Sprint (following FOSS4G Europe 2015 in Como): http://grass.osgeo.org/donations/ Thanks to all contributors! About GRASS GIS The Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (http://grass.osgeo.org), commonly referred to as GRASS GIS, is an Open Source Geographic Information System providing powerful raster, vector and geospatial processing capabilities in a single integrated software suite. GRASS GIS includes tools for spatial modeling, visualization of raster and vector data, management and analysis of geospatial data, and the processing of satellite and aerial imagery. It also provides the capability to produce sophisticated presentation graphics and hardcopy maps. GRASS GIS has been translated into about twenty languages and supports a huge array of data formats. It can be used either as a stand-alone application or as backend for other software packages such as QGIS and R geostatistics. It is distributed freely under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). GRASS GIS is a founding member of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). The GRASS Development Team, July 2015 From jsanz at osgeo.org Tue Jul 21 13:41:11 2015 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 22:41:11 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] GeoMoose 2.8.0 Released Message-ID: GeoMoose 2.8.0 has been released. It contains both fixes for bugs found in the 2.7.1 release and implements many new feature requests. For more information on what changed see: http://www.geomoose.org/releases/2.8.0.html As always, downloads are available at: http://www.geomoose.org/download.html Jim GeoMoose 2.8 Release Manager From jsanz at osgeo.org Tue Jul 21 13:44:54 2015 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 22:44:54 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] EarthServer Project goes into the second round Message-ID: The EarthServer initiative is establishing Agile Analytics on Petabyte data cubes as a commodity. Pushing the boundaries of Big Earth Data services, the intercontinental Earthserver initiative enables researchers to browse, access, and analyze massive multi-dimensional data sets from a wide range of sources. Big Earth Data at your fingertips - this is the vision of EarthServer for unleashing the potential of Big Data through a disruptive paradigm shift in technology: * from isolat-ed silos of data with disparate functionality towards a single, uniform information space; * from a difficult, artificial differentiation between data and metadata access to unified retrieval; * from zillions of files towards few whatever-size datacubes; * from limited functionality to the freedom of asking anything, anytime, any server in a peer network of data centers worldwide. In phase 1, EarthServer has established open ad-hoc analytics on massive Earth Science data, based on and extending the leading Array Database technology, rasdaman. According to EU Commission and inde pendent reviewers, rasdaman will "significantly transform the way that scientists in different areas of Earth Science will be able to access and use data in a way that hitherto was not possible" as demonstrated by portals with over 230 TB of spatio-temporal data. EarthServer "with no doubt has been shaping the Big Earth Data landscape through the standardization activities within OGC, ISO and beyond". Now phase 2 of EarthServer has started, with an even more ambitious goal: data centers will provide at least 1 Petabyte of 3-D and 4-D datacubes. Technology advance will allow real-time scaling of such Petabyte cubes, and intercontinental fusion. This power of data handling will be wrapped into direct visual interaction based on multi-dimensional visualization techniques, in particular: NASA World Wind. Following the motto "a cube says more than a million images" EarthServer has set out to redefine the Big Data service landscape even more. This way, critical support will be given to Copernicus and the Sentinel satellite data: a single 3D x/y/t datacube will be constructed for each satellite instrument so that millions of images form a single, simple data space, irrespective of its size resulting. Likewise, each climate dataset will form a single 4D datacube. Access to these cubes is through a clean-slate standards-based query language on n-D grids, OGC WCPS. This yields the agility that any query can be sent at any time, without admin intervention on server side. Multiple cubes can be combined based on parallel, distributed processing. Altogether, the WCPS language allows navigation, extraction, aggregation, and fusion of any-size space/time data cubes using simple, yet powerful query operators. The consortium consists of Jacobs University (Germany, coordinator), rasdaman GmbH (Germany, SME), , Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UK), European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (UK), MEEO s.r.l. (Italy, SME), and CITE S.A. (Greece, SME). Additionally, two high-profile international organizations participate: NASA (US) and National Computational Infrastructure (Australia). Read more: www.earthserver.eu -- Heike Hoenig From jsanz at osgeo.org Tue Jul 21 13:53:14 2015 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 22:53:14 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] GeoForAll - Global Educator of the Year Award 2015 Message-ID: On behalf of the GeoForAll Educator Award Selection Committee, we are pleased to inform all that the Individual and Team Awards for the "GeoForAll - Global Educator of the Year Award 2015" [1] has been announced at the FOSS4G 2015- Europe "Open Innovation for Europe" conference at Como, Italy on Friday [2] .The award committee had the very difficult task of selecting the GeoForAll Educator of the Year out of the well deserving list of nominees. Individual award goes to Sterling Quinn (Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, USA) for his course on ?Open Web Mapping? and Team award for Kurt Menke (Birds Eye View) Nate Jennings (Urbandale Spatial), Jon Van Hoesen (Green Mtn College), Rick Smith (Texas A&M,) and Phil Davis, Delmar College (all in USA) for their GeoAcademy development efforts. This is an opportunity for us to thank all colleagues for their excellent contributions to Openness in Education principles in the Geo domain. Our congratulations to all individuals or teams who received one or more nominations for the 2015 GeoForAll Global Educator of the Year Award. They all are our stars and "Geo for All" community would to like to thank all educators worldwide who have made contributions to open education efforts and being good global citizens by helping spread the benefits of education to all. Sincerely, On behalf of the GeoForAll Educator Award Selection Committee Prof. Charlie Schweik (Award Committee Chair) Prof. Georg Gartner (President, ICA) Jeff McKenna (President, OSGeo) Chen Jun (President, ISPRS) Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli (Italy) Dr. Xinyue Ye (USA) Dr. Luciene Delazari (Brazil) Dr. Tuong-Thuy Vu (Malaysia) Prof. Venkatesh Raghavan (Japan/India) Prof. Ivana Iv?nov? (Brazil) Jeroen Ticheler (The Netherlands) Dr. Serena Coetzee (South Africa) Prof. Helena Mitasova (USA) Anne Ghisla (Germany) Patrick Hogan (USA) Dr Suchith Anand (UK/India) [1] http://www.osgeo.org/node/1506 [2] http://europe.foss4g.org/2015/ From jsanz at osgeo.org Thu Jul 23 06:20:49 2015 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 15:20:49 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Sol Katz Award - Call for Nominations Message-ID: The Open Source Geospatial Foundation would like to open nominations for the 2015 Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software. The Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software (GFOSS) will be given 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. 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 while at the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. This early GFOSS archive provided both source code and applications freely available to the community. Sol was also a frequent contributor to many geospatial list servers, providing much guidance to the geospatial community at large. Sol unfortunately passed away in 1999 from Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, but his legacy lives on in the open source world. Those interested in making a donation to the American Cancer Society, as per Sol's family's request, can do so at https://donate.cancer.org/index. Nominations for the Sol Katz Award should be sent to SolKatzAward at osgeo.org with a description of the reasons for this nomination. Nominations will be accepted until 23:59 UTC on August 21st (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=21&year=2015&hour=23&min=59&sec=59). A recipient will be decided from the nomination list by the OSGeo selection committee. The winner of the Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software will be announced at the FOSS4G-Seoul event in September. 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. It should be noted that past awardees and selection committee members are not eligible. More info at the Sol Katz Award wiki page http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Sol_Katz_Award Past Awardees: 2014: Gary Sherman 2013: Arnulf Christl 2012: Venkatesh Raghavan 2011: Martin Davis 2010: Helena Mitasova 2009: Daniel Morissette 2008: Paul Ramsey 2007: Steve Lime 2006: Markus Neteler 2005: Frank Warmerdam Selection Committee 2015: Jeff McKenna (chair) Frank Warmerdam Markus Neteler Steve Lime Paul Ramsey Sophia Parafina Daniel Morissette Helena Mitasova Martin Davis Venkatesh Raghavan Arnulf Christl Gary Sherman -- Jeff McKenna From jsanz at osgeo.org Sat Jul 25 04:22:35 2015 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2015 13:22:35 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] GRASS GIS 7.0.1 RC2 released Message-ID: We are pleased to announce the second release candidate of the upcoming GRASS GIS 7.0.1 version The GRASS Development Team released at their recent Community Sprint in Como, Italy the last release candidate of GRASS GIS 7.0.1RC2. What's new in a nutshell This upcoming stability release provides a series of stability fixes, manual improvements and a few language translations. This second release candidate provides 55 fixes and improvements with respect to RC1. It is expected that RC2 will be turned into the final release of GRASS GIS 7.0.1 after a short period of testing. About GRASS GIS 7: Its new graphical user interface supports the user to make complex GIS operations as simple as possible. A new Python interface to the C library permits users to create new GRASS GIS-Python modules in a simple way while yet obtaining powerful and fast modules. Furthermore, the libraries were significantly improved for speed and efficiency, along with support for huge files. A lot of effort has been invested to standardize parameter and flag names. Finally, GRASS GIS 7 comes with a series of new modules to analyse raster and vector data, along with a full temporal framework. For a detailed overview, see the list of new features. As a stable release 7.0 will enjoy long-term support. Source code download: http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/ http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/grass-7.0.1RC2.tar.gz To get the GRASS GIS 7.0.1 RC2 source code directly from SVN, see here. Binaries download: winGRASS 7.0.1RC2 standalone installer winGRASS 7.0.1RC2 in OSGeo4W installer Ubuntu installer ... further binary packages for other Linux distributions and Mac OSX will follow shortly. More details: See also our detailed announcement: http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/7.0.1RC-News http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass7/NewFeatures (overview of new stable release series) First time users may explore the first steps tutorial after installation. About GRASS GIS The Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (http://grass.osgeo.org/), commonly referred to as GRASS GIS, is an Open Source Geographic Information System providing powerful raster, vector and geospatial processing capabilities in a single integrated software suite. GRASS GIS includes tools for spatial modeling, visualization of raster and vector data, management and analysis of geospatial data, and the processing of satellite and aerial imagery. It also provides the capability to produce sophisticated presentation graphics and hardcopy maps. GRASS GIS has been translated into about twenty languages and supports a huge array of data formats. It can be used either as a stand-alone application or as backend for other software packages such as QGIS and R geostatistics. It is distributed freely under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). GRASS GIS is a founding member of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). The GRASS Development Team, July 2015 From a.ghisla at gmail.com Tue Jul 28 06:51:45 2015 From: a.ghisla at gmail.com (Anne Ghisla) Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 15:51:45 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] 11th International gvSIG Conference: "It's possible. It's real" Message-ID: <20150728155145.7426a58f@galadriel.localdomain> The 11th International gvSIG Conference [1], organized by the gvSIG Association, will be held from December 2nd to 4th 2015 at La Petxina Sports-Cultural Complex (Valencia - Spain), under the slogan "It's possible. It's real". Call for papers is now open. As of today communication proposals can be sent to the email address: conference-contact at gvsig.com; they will be evaluated by the scientific committee as to their inclusion in the conference program. There are two types of communication: paper or poster. Information regarding to regulations on communication presentations can be found in the Communications section of the website. Abstracts will be accepted until September 25th. Organizations interested in collaborating in the event can find information in the section: How to collaborate. [1] http://jornadas.gvsig.org