From jsanz at osgeo.org Tue Mar 3 01:50:04 2015 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 10:50:04 +0100 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo accepted to GSoC 2015 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <54F583CC.5040201@osgeo.org> Dear All, it is our pleasure to announce that OSGeo has been accepted as mentoring organization also this year! [1] The OSGeo GSoC Team has been reshaped with respect to former communications, and it's now composed by myself (Madi) in the role of primary admin and the experienced Anne Ghisla in the role of co-admin. Now it's time for prospecting students to carefully browse the list of ideas and contact developers team of their interest. Mentor registration is not yet open and will be announced in due time. Students can officially apply on Melange from 16th to 27th of March. All, do keep an eye (and a calendar client reminder) on all GSoC 2015 dates [2]! Yours enthusiastically, Madi and Anne OSGeo GSoC Admins 2015 [1] http://google-opensource.blogspot.it/2015/03/mentoring-organizations-for-google.html [2] https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2015 -- Best regards, Dr. Margherita DI LEO Scientific / technical project officer European Commission - DG JRC Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES) Via Fermi, 2749 I-21027 Ispra (VA) - Italy - TP 261 Tel. +39 0332 78 3600 margherita.di-leo at jrc.ec.europa.eu From jsanz at osgeo.org Thu Mar 5 23:31:55 2015 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2015 08:31:55 +0100 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] "Geo for All" region wise and subject wise thematic groups established In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <54F957EB.6070102@osgeo.org> On behalf of "Geo for All" http://www.geoforall.org , we are pleased to inform that Region wise and Subject wise Thematic groups are now established and we welcome you to join us. Following inputs from the "Geo for All" community we decided to have new Regional chairs to help us accommodate our expansion plans. Also this helps us to arrange meetings of the regional research labs coinciding with the FOSS4G regional conferences now fully established for accelerating research and teaching collaborations between our labs . For example FOSS4G-Europe http://europe.foss4g.org/2015/ for our European labs ; FOSS4G NA https://2015.foss4g-na.org for our North American labs, FOSS4G-Asia http://www.foss4g-asia.org/2014/ for our Asian labs etc. With the region wise thematic groups established, the chairs of these are now the contact points for any new labs to be established in that region to contact and the mailing list becomes the first point of contact for the new members and all regional members in the region can use the list for collaborating on regional funding calls, FOSS4G local conferences etc. This way we can make sure it is scaleable and meets local/region requirements/needs. The criteria for membership for ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Labs are at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geoforall_criteria North America Region Chairs: Helena Mitasova (USA), Charles Schweik (USA), Phillip Davis (USA) Subscribe at maillist http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-northamerica Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_North_America Email: cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu; hmitaso at ncsu.edu; pdavis at delmar.edu South America Region Chairs: Sergio Acosta y Lara (Uruguay) and Silvana Camboim (Brazil) Subscribe at maillist http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-southamerica Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_South_America Email: sergio.acostaylara at mtop.gub.uy; silvanacamboim at gmail.com Africa Region Chairs: Rania Elsayed Ibrahim (Egypt), Serena Coetzee (South Africa) and Bridget Fleming (South Africa) Subscribe at maillist http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-africa Webpage at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Africa Email: bridget at afrispatial.co.za; serenacoetzee at gmail.com; ranyaalsayed at gmail.com Asia Region (including Australia) Chairs: Tuong Thuy Vu (Malaysia/Vietnam) and Venkatesh Raghavan (Japan/India) Subscribe at maillist http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-asiaaustralia Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Asia Email: raghavan at media.osaka-cu.ac.jp; Tuongthuy.Vu at nottingham.edu.my Europe Region Chairs: Maria Brovelli (Italy) and Anne Ghilsa (Germany) Subscribe at maillist http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-europe Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Europe Email: maria.brovelli at polimi.it; a.ghisla at gmail.com Thematics: Subjects/Language Urban Science - City Analytics Thematic Theme Leaders - Chris Pettit (Australia) and Patrick Hogan (USA) Subscribe at maillist http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-urbanscience Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics Email: cpettit at unimelb.edu.au; patrick.hogan at nasa.gov Teacher Training & School Education thematic Theme Leaders - El?bieta Wo?oszy?ska-Wi?niewska (Poland) and Adrian Manning (UK) Subscribe at maillist http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-teachertraining Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_TeacherTraining_SchoolEducation Email: j.d.w.m at btinternet.com; ela at gridw.pl Spanish thematic Theme Leaders - Sergio Acosta y Lara (Uruguay) and Antoni P?rez Navarro (Spain) Subscribe at maillist http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geoforall-spanish Website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Spanish Email: sergio.acostaylara at mtop.gub.uy; aperezn at uoc.edu We invite all of you who are interested in different regions are welcome to join the specific mail list to build local collaborations and directly contact the regional chairs for new applications for establishing ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Research labs in universities worldwide to build Open Principles in Geo Education. -- Dr Suchith Anand From a.ghisla at gmail.com Wed Mar 11 02:29:04 2015 From: a.ghisla at gmail.com (Anne Ghisla) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 10:29:04 +0100 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] GeoForAll - Global Educator of the Year Award 2015 Message-ID: <20150311102904.1dc023a6@galadriel.localdomain> On the occasion of Open Education Week 2015 http://www.openeducationweek.org/ , "Geo for All" community http://www.geoforall.org 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. We are very happy to announce the nominees for the GeoForAll - Global Educator of the Year Award 2015. This is an opportunity for us to thank colleagues for their excellent contributions to Openness in Education principles in the Geo domain. Congratulations to the following individuals or teams who received one or more nominations for the 2015 GeoForAll Global Educator of the Year Award In no particular order, the nominees are: INDIVIDUALS - Daniel Baldwin, Costa Rica International Academy, Costa Rica, for his course on ?Mapping the Mangroves? [1] - Phil Davis, DelMar College, Texas, USA for his ongoing leadership and tireless efforts leading the creation of the GeoAcademy [2] - Genovevea Laurente, Consultora Calixto, Uruguay and gvSIG Batovi for the course ?Sistemas de Informaci?n Geogr?fica con uso de datos abiertos orientado a la educaci?n,? or in English, ?Geographic Information Systems for Education using Open Data? [3] - Kurt Menke, Bird?s Eye View GIS, Alburquerque, NM, USA, for his Introduction to Open Source and Web Mapping course he developed for Central New Mexico Community College [4] - Sterling Quinn, Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, USA, for his course on ?Open Web Mapping? [5] - Giorgio Zamboni, Politecnico di Milano, Como campus, Italy for his ?PoliCrowd: A Social Network App with NASA World Wind. [6] TEAMS - Environmental Information Centre GRID-Warsaw; UNEP/GRID Warsaw for their EduGIS Academy [7] - Open Source Geospatial Laboratory team at ETH Zurich, Switzerland for their Interactive Web Maps course [8] - Shashi Shekhar and Brent Hecht, Computer Science, University of Minnesota, USA for their Massive Open Online Course ?From GPS and Google Maps to Spatial Computing? [9] - Lluis Vicens (SIGTE,Spain), Toni Hernandez (SIGTE, Spain), Jeremy Morley (University of Nottingham,UK), Alberto Romeu (Prodevelop) and Jorge Sanz (Prodevelop) for their GIS Open Source Summer School at the University of Girona in Spain [10] - Ricardo Olivira, Raphael Moreno - FOSS4G lab, University of Colorado, Denver USA for their PostgreSQL/PostGIS course materials [11] - Raquel Sosa, Rosario Casanova and Jorge Franco, for their gvSIG Educa/Batovi effort in Uruguay [12] - Kurt Menke - Brids 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 [13] All of these individuals and teams should be celebrated for their efforts. Just being nominated is an honour. The award committee now has the very difficult task of selecting the GeoForAll Educator of the Year [14] out of this well deserving list of nominees. This year?s selections (possibly an individual and a team award) will be announced at the FOSS4G 2015- Europe "Open Innovation for Europe" conference at Como, Italy in July . Details at http://europe.foss4g.org/2015/ Congratulations again to all the nominees and we encourage you to list this nomination honour in your CVs. Happy Open Education Week 2015 everyone. Sincerely, Prof. Charlie Schweik, on behalf of the GeoForAll Educator Award Selection Committee: 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) REFERENCES [1] https://arabic.oercommons.org/EN/authoring/4247-mapping-the-mangroves-mwl/view [2] https://foss4geo.wordpress.com/ [3] http://ipesvirtual.dfpd.edu.uy/course/category.php?id=81 [4] http://catalog.cnm.edu/ [5] https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geog585/ [6] http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/policrowd/ [7] http://edugis.pl/en/for-teachers/guide [8] http://osgl.ethz.ch/osgl/Webmaps.html [9] https://www.coursera.org/course/spatialcomputing [10] http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2014/ [11] http://geospatial.ucdenver.edu/foss4g/training/tutorials [12] https://www.fig.net/pub/monthly_articles/January_2013/gvsig_batovi_an_educational_gis.pdf [13] https://foss4geo.wordpress.com [14] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Global_Educator_of_the_Year_Award_2015 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Started in 2010 (more formally announced in 2011), pycsw allows for the publishing and discovery of geospatial metadata, providing a standards-based metadata and catalogue component of spatial data infrastructures. The project is certified OGC Compliant, and is an OGC Reference Implementation. pycsw is Open Source, released under an MIT license, and runs on all major platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X). The project powers numerous high profile activities such as US data.gov/geoplatform.gov, Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS), US National Geothermal Data System (NGDS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the WMO World Ozone and Ultraviolet Radiation Data Centre (WOUDC) [5]. Graduating incubation [2] 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 pycsw team is thrilled to be recognized as a full OSGeo project. Being part of OSGeo is important for us since OSGeo supports the collaborative development of open source geospatial software. There have been strong ties between the two communities with pycsw developers being involved as charter members, represented in local OSGeo chapters and helping with various FOSS4G activities. We are very happy to be included as part of OSGeo and a member of such an esteemed group of projects." Jeff McKenna [6], mentor of the incubation process says: "It has been a pleasure to work with the pycsw team throughout this process. pycsw complements the OSGeo stack with a lightweight method to share and discover geospatial data. I want to thank the pycsw team for their continued passion for FOSS4G." OSGeo and pycsw would also like to thank Jeff McKenna and Jody Garnett for their assistance during this Incubation process. Congratulations to the pycsw community! * [1] http://pycsw.org * [2] http://www.osgeo.org/incubator * [3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Angelos_Tzotsos * [4] http://pycsw.org/community/psc.html * [5] http://pycsw.org/community * [6] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna From jsanz at osgeo.org Fri Mar 13 00:31:11 2015 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 08:31:11 +0100 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Bonn Awarded Hosting of FOSS4G2016 Message-ID: The OSGeo Foundation is pleased to announce that the hosting of the FOSS4G (Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial) 2016 event has been awarded by the OSGeo Conference Committee to Bonn, Germany. The Bonn local organizing team, led by the chair Till Adams[1], brings many years of experience, hosting a successful yearly FOSSGIS[2] event in Germany, and also as one of the original OSGeo local chapters, FOSSGIS_e.V.[3]. Community members (anyone) wanting to discuss the 2016 event can do so now on the new FOSS4G2016 mailing list[4]. Jeff McKenna[5], president of OSGeo says: "The OSGeo Board of Directors are very excited for the Bonn team to host the FOSS4G2016 event. I have personally known many of the local committee members for several years, and I have watched their successful FOSSGIS event grow in Germany each year. I couldn't be more confident that the 2016 event in Bonn will be one of the most memorable FOSS4G events." OSGeo would also like to thank the Dublin, Ireland team for their wonderful proposal, and their continued passion for all things FOSS4G. Congratulations to the Bonn team! == About FOSS4G == FOSS4G is the international gathering of Open Source geo tribes. From its beginnings the FOSS4G conference has a reputation of being a melting pot for great ideas in the spatial industry and a catalyst for many successful geospatial products, standards and protocols. FOSS4G has evolved into one of the most important geo events of the year, approaching a thousand attendees and with major industry sponsors. Excitement is now building for the upcoming FOSS4G2015 conference that will be held in Seoul, South Korea[6]. FOSS4G rotates around the world each year, throughout 3 regions of the Americas, Europe, and Asia/South Pacific. * [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Till_Adams * [2] http://www.fossgis.de/ * [3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSSGIS_e.V. * [4] http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foss4g2016 * [5] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna * [6] http://2015.foss4g.org/ From jsanz at osgeo.org Tue Mar 17 03:51:17 2015 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:51:17 +0100 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Fwd: [News] Orfeo ToolBox now has an official Project Steering Committee In-Reply-To: <5506FD35.3070204@cnes.fr> References: <5506FD35.3070204@cnes.fr> Message-ID: Dear all, This email to let you know that Orfeo ToolBox now has an official Project Steering Committee! if you are interested in more details, please read our announcement blog post [1] or the wiki page of the Project Steering Committee [2]. If you have any questions on what is the PSC and how it works, please feel free to ask! Regards, Julien [1] https://www.orfeo-toolbox.org/steer-me-please/ [2] http://wiki.orfeo-toolbox.org/index.php/Project_Steering_Committee -- Julien MICHEL CNES - DCT/SI/AP From jsanz at osgeo.org Mon Mar 23 11:01:30 2015 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 19:01:30 +0100 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] GeoTools 13 released Message-ID: The GeoTools community is pleased to announce the availability of GeoTools 13.0[1], the first stable release of the GeoTools 13 series. Download GeoTools 13: - geotools-13.0-bin.zip[2] - geotools-13.0-doc.zip[3] - geotools-13.0-userguide.zip[4] - geotools-13.0-project.zip[5] This release is also available from our maven repository[6], and is made in conjunction with GeoWebCache 1.7.0 and GeoServer 2.7.0. New Features and Improvements The following new features and improvements are available in this release: === Data Stores === - GeoPackage support is now compatible with QGIS and OGR. - A new gt-solr[7] data store is available for working with with Apache Solr[8]. Thanks - to Andrea Aime and Justin Deoliveira for this work. - CSVDataStore has been improved with write access and the ability to work with different kinds of CSV files (including lat/lon and WKT). Thanks to Travis Brundage for this work. - AbstractDataStore is now deprecated. Please make plans to migrate to ContentDataStore. There is an extensive ContentDataStore tutorial[9] to help with - your migration. - PropertyDataStore has now been ported to use ContentDataStore, and a wide range of issues (readers, events, transactions) have been resolved for all DataStore implementations. Thanks to Torben Barsballe for this extensive QA work. === CSS Module === The gt-css module[10] is a brand-new implementation of CSS-style support, now written in Java. Thanks to Andrea Aime for bringing this exciting approach to styling within easy reach of Java developers. Here is a quick code example: Stylesheet ss = CssParser.parse(css); CssTranslator translator = new CssTranslator(); Style style - translator.translate(ss); === Rendering Engine === - Color-blending has been introduced as both a FeatureTypeStyle[11] and Symbolizer[12] vendorExtension, allowing for a range of special effects[13]. Thanks to Cleveland Metro Parks[14] for this improvement. - A FeatureTypeStyle[15] vendorExtension named "firstMatch". This vendor Extension will grab the first rule you specify. This can in many situations help you avoid more complicated logic for style rules. first - Anchor points are now supported. This is done in SLD with the AnchorPoint tag: X Y === WFS Client === The gt-wfs client has improved: - Better compatibility with MapServer. - Extensive work has been done to support WFS 2.0 transactions. Thanks to Niels Charlier for this work. - The gt-wfs client now supports WFS 2.0 stored queries. Thanks to Sampo Savolainen for this work. === And more === Documentation continues to improve, now with a complete function list. For a full list[16] of improvements and changes in GeoTools 13, please see the full release notes[17]. Thanks to Jody Garnett and Travis Brundage (from Boundless[18]) for making this release happen. [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/geotools/files/GeoTools%2013%20Releases/13.0/ [2] http://sourceforge.net/projects/geotools/files/GeoTools%2013%20Releases/13.0/geotools-13.0-bin.zip/download [3] http://sourceforge.net/projects/geotools/files/GeoTools%2013%20Releases/13.0/geotools-13.0-doc.zip/download [4] http://sourceforge.net/projects/geotools/files/GeoTools%2013%20Releases/13.0/geotools-13.0-userguide.zip/download [5] http://sourceforge.net/projects/geotools/files/GeoTools%2013%20Releases/13.0/geotools-13.0-project.zip/download [6] http://download.osgeo.org/webdav/geotools/ [7] http://docs.geotools.org/stable/userguide/library/data/solr.html [8] http://lucene.apache.org/solr/ [9] http://docs.geotools.org/stable/userguide/tutorial/datastore/index.html [10] http://docs.geotools.org/stable/userguide/unsupported/css.html [11] http://docs.geotools.org/stable/userguide/library/render/style.html#featuretypestyle [12] http://docs.geotools.org/stable/userguide/library/render/style.html#symbolizer [13] http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/styling/sld-extensions/composite-blend.html [14] http://www.clevelandmetroparks.com/ [15] http://docs.geotools.org/stable/userguide/library/render/style.html#featuretypestyle [16] http://docs.geotools.org/stable/userguide/library/main/function_list.html [17] https://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10270&version=20994 [18] http://boundlessgeo.com/ From jsanz at osgeo.org Mon Mar 30 01:49:08 2015 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 10:49:08 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Announcing FOSS4G-India 2015 Message-ID: FOSS4G-India 2015 is the second in a series of National Conferences on Free and Open Source Software for Geoinformatics. FOSS4G-India (http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/foss4g2015/) is held biannually with a mission to foster the development and promote the widespread use of Open Source Geospatial Technologies including support for software development and publicly available Geo-data. The proposed theme of the Conference is "Open Source Geospatial Tools in Climate Change Research and Natural Resource Management". It will be organised jointly by OSGeo-India in collaboration with Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), Survey of India (SOI) and Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WIHG). Important Dates --------------- 1. Abstract Submission: 25th Apr 2015 2. Acceptance Notification: 4th May 2015 3. Full Paper Submission: 20th May 2015 4. Early Registration Starts: 10th April 2015 About OSGeo-India ----------------- OSGeo-India is the India Chapter of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo.org), launched in Jan 2007 as a not-for-profit Society with a pan India focus. The goal of the Society is to provide support and help in building up of open source tools and applications related to the field of geospatial technologies and its allied sciences in this part of the world. It is working towards developing a community of both the users of such products and the developers who can contribute in developing high quality open source software. The Society and its activities are tuned towards achieving these goals, both in the context of software development, e-governance, localisation (Indian language support) and building of awareness & outreach of such software systems.