From astrid_emde at osgeo.org Fri Mar 1 11:57:17 2019 From: astrid_emde at osgeo.org (Astrid Emde (OSGeo)) Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2019 20:57:17 +0100 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Press Release 84: Starting build cycle for OSGeoLive 13.0 Message-ID: <5738ab37a06d347061c385998e49f60e@posteo.de> Find Press Relqase 84 at: https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/wiki/Press%20Release%2084 Starting build cycle for OSGeoLive 13.0 ---------------------------------------------------- 1 March 2019 Are you interested in joining our Open Source GIS experience? The build cycle for the next OSGeoLive release 13.0, is going to start. The final version is planned to be ready at 30th July 2019 in time for FOSS4G 2019 in Bucharest [1]. Have a look at our schedule for the detailed steps [2]. Till then we have many challenges - from simple to challenging, to help describe and train people in the value of Open Source GIS. For this release, we hope to help OSGeo Community projects join OSGeoLive, and work out how we can keep within our size constraints. We'd love to build a cloud version of OSGeoLive for this release. It would make OSGeoLive, and OSGeo software much more accessible. It seems elusively achievable, but we haven't worked it out yet. If you think you could help, we'd love to hear from you. Get involved ----------------- Are you a programmer or packager with experience in one of the Open Source GIS applications. Are you a technical writer interested in making FOSS4G accessible to all? Are you interested in helping update translations to latest documents on Transifex [3] [4]. Contact us If you would like to add a new project, help us to get in the cloud or have another goal you would like to work on and get involved you are very welcome. Please join the OSGeoLive mailing list [5] or meet us on IRC at our weekly meeting. About OSGeoLive ------------------------ OSGeoLive (​​http://live.osgeo.org) is a ​Lubuntu based distribution of Geospatial Open Source Software, available via a Live DVD, Virtual Machine and USB. You can use OSGeoLive to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing anything. OSGeoLive team [1] FOSS4G 2019 Bucharest ​​https://2019.foss4g.org/ [2] ​​Schedule https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kO6zzmLFfprZGgp5x7Sjwi-EVN6NTGDR4KXvFVtNpR0/edit?hl=en_GB&hl=en_GB#gid=0 [3] Translations on Transifex ​​https://www.transifex.com/osgeo/osgeolive/ [4] Documentation how to translate https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeoLive_Translation_Process#Translate_on_Transifex [5] ​Join the OSGeoLive mailinglist https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/osgeolive [6] IRC see Communication ​https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/wiki From astrid_emde at osgeo.org Fri Mar 1 12:05:54 2019 From: astrid_emde at osgeo.org (Astrid Emde (OSGeo)) Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2019 21:05:54 +0100 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Announcing PROJ 6.0.0 Message-ID: <26fe853ec5a4b3150a8809bce19da186@posteo.de> PROJ 6.0.0 released! News by the PROJ Team, posted by Kristian Evers (1. March 2019) See also https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/announcing-proj-6-0-0/ Congratulations to the PROJ Team! PROJ 6 has undergone extensive changes to increase its functional scope from a cartographic projection engine with so-called "early-binding" geodetic datum transformation capabilities to a more complete library supporting coordinate transformations and coordinate reference systems. As a foundation for other enhancements, PROJ now includes a C++ implementation of the modelisation propopsed by the ISO-19111:2019 standard / OGC Abstract Specification Topic 2: "Referencing By Coordinates", for geodetic reference frames (datums), coordinate reference systems and coordinate operations. Construction and query of those geodetic objects is available through a new C++ API, and also accessible for the most part from bindings in the C API. Those geodetic objects can be imported and exported from and into the OGC Well-Known Text format (WKT) in its different variants: ESRI WKT, GDAL WKT 1, WKT2:2015 (ISO 19162:2015) and WKT2:2018 (ISO 19162:2018). Import and export of CRS objects from and into PROJ strings is also supported. This functionality was previously available in the GDAL software library (except WKT2 support which is a new feature), and is now an integral part of PROJ. A unified database of geodetic objects, coordinate reference systems and their metadata, and coordinate operations between those CRS is now available in a SQLite3 database file, proj.db. This includes definitions imported from the IOGP EPSG dataset (v9.6.0 release), the IGNF (French national mapping agency) geodetic registry and the ESRI projection engine database. PROJ is now the reference software in the "OSGeo C stack" for this CRS and coordinate operation database, whereas previously this functionality was spread over PROJ, GDAL and libgeotiff, and used CSV or other adhoc text-based formats. Late-binding coordinate operation capabilities, that takes metadata such as area of use and accuracy into account, has been added. This can avoid in a number of situations the past requirement of using WGS84 as a pivot system, which could cause unneeded accuracy loss, or was not doable at all sometimes when transformation to WGS84 was not available. Those late-binding capabilities are now used by the proj_create_crs_to_crs() function and the cs2cs utility. A new command line utility, projinfo, has been added to query information about a geodetic object of the database, import and export geodetic objects from/into WKT and PROJ strings, and display coordinate operations available between two CRSs. Download the source distribution here: https://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-6.0.0.tar.gz https://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-6.0.0.zip In addition to the new version of PROJ we are also releasing new datum grid packages: proj-datumgrid-europe 1.2: https://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-datumgrid-europe-1.2.tar.gz https://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-datumgrid-europe-1.2.zip Changes include: Grids covering the UK, France and Sweden. proj-datumgrid-north-america 1.2: https://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-datumgrid-north-america-1.2.tar.gz https://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-datumgrid-north-america-1.2.zip Changes include: NAD83 -> NAD83(HPGN) grids, GEOIDB12 grids and the Canadian ntv2_0.gsb grid proj-datumgrid-world 1.0 https://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-datumgrid-world-1.0.tar.gz https://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-datumgrid-world-1.0.zip This is the first version of the world wide package. Currently it only holds the EGM2008 geoid grid.