From jsanz at osgeo.org  Wed Jul  1 06:25:29 2020
From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz)
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2020 15:25:29 +0200
Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] PROJ 7.1.0 and PROJ-data 1.1.0
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Hi,

On behalf of the PROJ development team I am happy to announce the
release of PROJ 7.1.0 and PROJ-data 1.1.0. They offer both backward
compatible feature improvements and bug fixes over PROJ 7.0.x and
PROJ-data 1.0.0

See release notes below for details. Download the source distributions here:

https://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-7.1.0.tar.gz (md5:
https://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-7.1.0.tar.gz.md5)https://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-7.1.0.zip
(md5: https://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-7.1.0.zip.md5)
https://download.osgeo.org//proj/proj-data-1.1.tar.gz
https://download.osgeo.org//proj/proj-data-1.1.zip

7.1.0 Release Notes
-------------------

Updates
-------

+ New projections:

o Add square conformal projections from libproject:

- Adams Hemisphere in a Square
- Adams World in a Square I
- Adams World in a Square II
- Guyou
- Pierce Quincuncial (#2148)

o Adams Square II: map ESRI WKT to PROJ string, and implement
iterative inverse method (#2157)
o Added IGH Oceanic View projection (#2226)
o Add wink2 inverse by generic inversion of forward method (#2243)
+ Database:
o Update to EPSG 9.8.12, ESRI 10.8.1 and import scope and remarks for
conversion (#2238) (#2267)
o Map the Behrman projection to cae when converting ESRI CRSes (#1986)
o Support conversion of Flat_Polar_Quartic projection method (#1987)
o Register 4 new Austrian height grids (see
https://github.com/OSGeo/PROJ-data/pull/13) and handle 'Vertical
Offset by Grid Interpolation (BEV AT)' method (#1989)
o Add ESRI projection method mappings for Mercator_Variant_A,
Mercator_Variant_B and Transverse_Cylindrical_Equal_Area and various
grid mappings (#2020) (#2195)
o Map ESRI Transverse_Mercator_Complex to Transverse Mercator (#2040)
o Register grids for New Caledonia (see
https://github.com/OSGeo/PROJ-data/pull/16) (#2051) (#2239)
o Register NZGD2000 -> ITRF96 transformation for NZGD2000 database (#2248)
o Register geoid file for UK added (see
https://github.com/OSGeo//PROJ-data/pull/25() (#2250)
o Register Slovakian geoid transformations with needed code changes (#2259)
o Register Spanish SPED2ETV2 grid for ED50->ETRS89 (#2261)

+ New transformations:

o Add a +proj=defmodel transformation for multi-component time-based
deformation models (#2206)

+ API:

o Add API function proj_get_units_from_database() (#2065)
o Add API function proj_get_suggested_operation() (#2068)
o Add API functions proj_degree_input() and proj_degree_output() (#2144)
o Moved proj_context_get_url_endpoint &
proj_context_get_user_writable_directory from proj_experimental.h to
proj.h (#2162)
o createFromUserInput(): allow compound CRS with the 2 parts given by
names, e.g. 'WGS 84 + EGM96 height' (#2126)
o createOperations(): when converting CompoundCRS<-->Geographic3DCrs,
do not use discard change of ellipsoidal height if a Helmert
transformation is involved (#2227)
o proj_list_units() deprecated, superceeded by proj_get_units_from_database()
o proj_list_angular_units() deprecated, superceeded by
proj_get_units_from_database()
+ Optimizations:
o tmerc/utm: add a +algo=auto/evenden_snyder/poder_engsager parameter (#2030)
o Extended tmerc (Poder/Engsager): speed optimizations (#2036)
o Approximate tmerc (Snyder): speed optimizations (#2039)
o pj_phi2(): speed-up computation (and thus inverse ellipsoidal
Mercator and LCC) (#2052)
o Inverse cart: speed-up computation by 33% (#2145)
o Extended tmerc: speed-up forward path by ~5% (#2147)

+ Various:

o Follow PDAL's CMake RPATH strategy (#2009)
o WKT import/export: add support for WKT1_ESRI VERTCS synta (#2024)
o projinfo: add a --hide-ballpark option (#2127)
o gie: implement a strict mode with <gie-strict> </gie-strict> (#2168)
o Allow importing WKT1 COMPD_CS with a VERT_DATUM[Ellipsoid,2002] (#2229)
o Add runtime checking that sqlite3 is >= 3.11 (#2235)



Bug fixes
---------

o createOperations(): do not remove ballpark transformation if there
are only grid based operations, even if they cover the whole area of
use (#2155)
o createFromProjString(): handle default parameters of '+krovak
+type=crs', and handle +czech correctly (#2200)
o ProjectedCRS::identify(): fix identification of EPSG:3059 (#2215)
o Database: add a 'WGS84' alias for the EPSG:4326 CRS (#2218)
o Fixes related to CompoundCRS and BoundCRS (#2222)
o Avoid 2 warnings about missing database indices (#2223)
o Make projinfo --3d --boundcrs-to-wgs84 work better (#2224)
o Many fixes regarding BoundCRS, CompoundCRS, Geographic3D CRS with
non-metre units (#2234)
o Fix identification of (one of the) ESRI WKT formulations of EPSG:3035 (#2240)
o Avoid using deprecated and removed Windows API function with Mingw32 (#2246)
o normalizeForVisualization(): make it switch axis for EPSG:5482
(RSRGD2000 / RSPS2000) (#2256)
o Fix access violation in proj_context_get_database_metadata (#2260)
o Fail gracefully when calling API functions with invalid input (#2272)


PROJ-data 1.1.0 Release Notes
-----------------------------

Updates since 1.0.0:

- addition of 4 grids for vertical transformations in Austria
- addition of 2 grids for horizontal ED50->ETRS89 and geoid model
EGM08-REDNAP in Spain
- addition of 4 grids for horizontal transformations and geoid model
in New Caledonia
- addition of NZGD2000 to ITRF96 deformation model in New Zealand
(requires PROJ 7.1.0)
- addition of 2 grids for horizontal and geoid model in Slovakia
- addition of OSGM15 geoid model for United Kingdom


Even
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From jsanz at osgeo.org  Mon Jul  6 10:32:32 2020
From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz)
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2020 19:32:32 +0200
Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo Twin Cities (aka TCMUG) local chapter Meeting
In-Reply-To: <54BA30B4-EB31-4676-AB36-E619FA19DF4F@ci.stpaul.mn.us>
References: <54BA30B4-EB31-4676-AB36-E619FA19DF4F@ci.stpaul.mn.us>
Message-ID: <CAGw=ncs2=RC=4H8YPw=RovpTRaTDJz2dTigYVwvAj-Je10E9iw@mail.gmail.com>

All,

Had another good (virtual) meeting in June. More out of towners
joining in. Jeff Mckenna & Steve Lime gave a presentation on the
?State of MapServer?.

A link to a recording of the presentation can be found on our Local
Chapter page below.

Our Next meeting we?ll have:

* Presenter:  Howard Butler
* A presentation on: The GDAL and PROJ Barnraising.  ?What was the

GDAL Barnraising??

Bio info available in his GeoHipster interview at:

https://geohipster.com/2018/03/05/howard-butler-like-good-song-open-source-software-chance-immortal/

This will be a virtual meeting. It will be recorded as well. Here is
the connection info:

https://meet.jit.si/osgeo_tcmug

When: July 8th, 4:30 PM CDT


OSGeo, Twin Cities (aka TCMUG), MN, USA Local Chapter Page.

bobb


From jsanz at osgeo.org  Wed Jul 29 04:38:35 2020
From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz)
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 13:38:35 +0200
Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] 37 years of GRASS GIS: celebrating with a new
	GRASS GIS website!
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References: <CALFmHhuqQ2eVndCD4kGwdxAy-ya+1r_ADSmPpvZLTgoWNTK4hA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAGw=ncuzuoFqnmr-27ULObzYgzaP5DGxhXdYoQOaUdOdpfgs4Q@mail.gmail.com>

Wednesday, July 29, 2020

[image: The new GRASS GIS website]
The new GRASS GIS website is out!

In occasion of its *37th birthday the GRASS GIS project* is proud to
present its *new website* <https://grass.osgeo.org>! The site has been
redesigned with modern tools to be responsive and also easier to maintain.
Content is more discoverable now and easy to browse too.
What?s cool

   - The *Learn* <https://grass.osgeo.org/learn> page offers a curated list
   of tutorials in different languages and links to videos. The new Try
   online <https://grass.osgeo.org/learn/tryonline> section provides links
   to Binder and rollApp online applications that allow testing GRASS GIS
   without installing it.
   - Our long standing and *rich history*
   <https://grass.osgeo.org/about/history> in the GIS and open source world
   is now presented in a much more attractive layout. Have a look at the
   timeline of *releases* <https://grass.osgeo.org/about/history/releases>
   and *websites* <https://grass.osgeo.org/about/history/web-evolution>!
   - The revamped *gallery of screenshots*
   <https://grass.osgeo.org/learn/gallery> shows some of GRASS GIS
   capabilities through visual examples.
   - Project resources easily reachable: mailing lists, wiki, RSS news
   feed, the various GitHub and docker repositories.

The technology

We chose a static format based on HUGO <https://gohugo.io/> and all the
code and content is hosted in a dedicated repo
<https://github.com/OSGeo/grass-website> in GitHub. *Nicolas Bozon*
<http://cartogenic.com/> designed the website theme and many others helped
with content curation and creation. In detail, the page content is now
written in markdown. Several times a day the website is automatically
deployed from the GitHub repository to our internet server at
https://grass.osgeo.org/ .
What?s next

With this new web technology and the availability of the code and content
in a public repository, we want to *encourage and simplify community
members? participation*. If you want your GRASS GIS use cases, blog posts
and cool screenshots to be part of if, you only need to create a pull
request. No fear, we have a manual for contributions
<https://grass.osgeo.org/about/theme/>.

We thank all the contributors for their input and help to see this project
finally realized!

Stay tuned, there?s more yet to come!
--
Markus Neteler
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From jsanz at osgeo.org  Fri Jul 31 01:19:09 2020
From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz)
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2020 10:19:09 +0200
Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] =?utf-8?q?Sol_Katz_Award_for_Geospatial_Free_and?=
	=?utf-8?q?_Open_Source_Software_=E2=80=93_Call_for_Nominations?=
Message-ID: <CAGw=ncv50iM0WUB1BimbyjDaQ83rX7tsZAMMezbd55eCE-3Z1g@mail.gmail.com>

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation would like to open nominations for
the 2020 Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software.

The Sol Katz Award for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial
(FOSS4G) will be given to individuals who have demonstrated leadership in
the FOSS4G 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 FOSS4G 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 FOSS4G 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.

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 end-of-day August 21st Anywhere on Earth
<https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aoe>. A recipient will be decided
from the nomination list by the OSGeo selection committee.

As the world is currently in challenging times, the winner of the Sol Katz
Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software will be announced online
during the next OSGeo Annual General Meeting on 2020-09-10
<https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meeting_2020>. 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.

Past Awardees:

2019 Even Rouault
2018 Astrid Emde
2017 Andrea Aime
2016 Jeff McKenna
2015 Maria Brovelli
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 2020:

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
Maria Brovelli
Andrea Aime
Astrid Emde
Even Rouault

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Jeff McKenna
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