From astrid_emde at osgeo.org Sun Nov 1 23:54:41 2020 From: astrid_emde at osgeo.org (Astrid Emde (OSGeo)) Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2020 08:54:41 +0100 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Announce of release PROJ 7.2.0 & PROJ-data 1.3 Message-ID: see also https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/announce-release-of-proj-7-2-0-and-proj-data-1-3/ On behalf of the PROJ development team I am happy to announce the release of PROJ 7.2.0 and PROJ-data 1.3. The PROJ release includes a number of improvements, new features and bug fixes. See the detailed release notes below. The PROJ-data package includes adds new resources for Finish TIN shift transformations as well as the Japanese GSIGEO2011 geoid. Get the packages here: http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-7.2.0.tar.gz http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-7.2.0.zip http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-data-1.3.tar.gz http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-data-1.3.zip /Kristian Evers ???????????????????????????????????????? 7.2.0 Release Notes ------------------- Updates ------- + Command line tools: o Add multi-line PROJ string export capability, and use it by default in projinfo (unless --single-line is specified) (#2381) + Coordinate operations: o +proj=col_urban projection, implementing a EPSG projection method used by a number of projected CRS in Colombia (#2395) o +proj=tinshift for triangulation-based transformations (#2344) o Added ellipsoidal formulation of +proj=ortho (#2361) + Database o Update to EPSG 10.003 and make code base robust to dealing with WKT CRS with DatumEnsemble (#2370) o Added Finland tinshift operations (#2392) o Added transformation from JGD2011 Geographic 3D to JGD2011 height using GSIGEO2011 (#2393) o Improve CompoundCRS identification and name morphing in VerticalCRS with ESRI WKT1 (#2386) o Added OGC:CRS27 and OGC:CRS83 CRS entries for NAD27 and NAD83 in longitude, latitude order (#2350) + API o Added temporal, engineering, and parametric datum PJ_TYPE enumerations (#2274) o Various improvements to context handling (#2329, #2331) o proj_create_vertical_crs_ex(): add a ACCURACY option to provide an explicit accuracy, or derive it from the grid name if it is known (#2342) o proj_crs_create_bound_crs_to_WGS84(): make it work on verticalCRS/compoundCRS such as EPSG:4326+5773 and EPSG:4326+3855 (#2365) o promoteTo3D(): add a remark with the original CRS identifier (#2369) o Added proj_context_clone (#2383) Bug fixes --------- o Avoid core dumps when copying contexts in certain scenarios (#2324) o proj_trans(): reset errno before attemptying a retry with a new coordinate operation (#2353) o PROJJSON schema corrected to allow prime meridians values with explicitly stating a unit (degrees assumed) (#2354) o Adjust createBoundCRSToWGS84IfPossible() and operation filtering (for POSGAR 2007 to WGS84 issues) (#2357) o createOperations(): several fixes affecting NAD83 -> NAD83(2011) (#2364) o WKT2:2019 import/export: handle DATUM (at top level object) with PRIMEM o WKT1_ESRI: fix import and export of CompoundCRS (#2389) From astrid_emde at osgeo.org Mon Nov 2 08:46:44 2020 From: astrid_emde at osgeo.org (Astrid Emde (OSGeo)) Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2020 17:46:44 +0100 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] GDAL/OGR 3.2.0 is released Message-ID: <07ed6474bc8869e4da3a0dfaa5e96927@posteo.de> see also: https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/gdal-ogr-3-2-0-is-released/ news item from Even Rouault Hi, On behalf of the GDAL/OGR development team and community, I am pleased to announce the release of GDAL/OGR 3.2.0. 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 3.2.0 release is a new feature release with the following highlights: * New GDAL drivers: - [ESRIC](https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/esric.html): ESRI bundle cache read-only driver (#2663) - [HEIF](https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/heif.html): read-only driver for HEIF/HEIC file. Requires libheif - [OGCAPI](https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/ogcapi.html): tiles/maps/ coverage raster/vector experimental driver - [TGA](https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/tga.html): read/only driver to read TGA image file format * New OGR drivers: - [LVBAG](https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/lvbag.html): read-only support for Dutch LVBAG/Kadaster 2.0 vector format * New utilities: - [gdal_create](https://gdal.org/programs/gdal_create.htm): to create/ initialize a new raster file * Other improvements: - Multi-threaded overview computation (if GDAL_NUM_THREADS set) - COG driver: TILING_SCHEME creation option - OpenFileGDB driver: add support for using spatial indexes - BAG driver: multiple improvements - FITS driver: multiple improvements (MEF and binary table support) - NITF driver: support for SNIP TREs - OGRFieldDefn: support UNIQUE constraint - OGRFieldDefn: support a AlternativeName (alias) property (#2729) - Python bindings: move implementation of scripts (except gdal2tiles) in osgeo.utils package to be reusable - Faster GTIFF Deflate compression/decompression through libdeflate (if using internal libtiff or libtiff > 4.1.0) * Removed functionality: - API_PROXY mechanism: likely never used for real usage. - Removal of GDAL and OGR ArcSDE drivers More complete information on the new features and fixes in the 3.2.0 release can be found at: https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.2.0/gdal/NEWS The release can be downloaded from: * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.2.0/gdal320.zip - source as a zip * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.2.0/gdal-3.2.0.tar.gz - source as .tar.gz * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.2.0/gdal-3.2.0.tar.xz - source as .tar.xz * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.2.0/gdal-grass-3.2.0.tar.gz - GDAL-GRASS plugin * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.2.0/gdalautotest-3.2.0.tar.gz - test suite * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.2.0/gdal320doc.zip - documentation / website Best regards, Even -- Spatialys - Geospatial professional services http://www.spatialys.com From victoria.rautenbach at gmail.com Fri Nov 6 23:39:28 2020 From: victoria.rautenbach at gmail.com (Victoria Rautenbach) Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2020 09:39:28 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] New gvSIG Desktop 2.5.1 version available In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: News item published at, https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/new-gvsig-desktop-2-5-1-version-available/ gvSIG Desktop 2.5.1, a new version that includes many new features, especially related to alphanumeric data management and advanced editing, is now available. gvSIG Desktop 2.5.1 is available at the downloads page [1] of the project website. What novelties does it bring? At the International gvSIG Conference [2] there will be several presentations in which part of these novelties will be announced and, in the coming days, we will publish several posts on the blog to show everything new that gvSIG Desktop 2.5.1 brings. Stay alert! [1] http://www.gvsig.com/en/products/gvsig-desktop/downloads [2] http://www.gvsig.com/en/16th-international-gvsig-conference1 From victoria.rautenbach at gmail.com Thu Nov 12 08:11:07 2020 From: victoria.rautenbach at gmail.com (Victoria Rautenbach) Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 18:11:07 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Welcoming our new OSGeo Charter Members 2020 Message-ID: News item, https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/welcoming-our-new-osgeo-charter-members-2020/ Congratulations and welcome to all our new OSGeo Charter Members! In 2020, we had 31 nominations and 29 were accepted. This year, 304 votes were casted the highest number to date (209 in 2019, 276 in 2018). The OSGeo board approved the new members in November 2020. We are happy to announce that the following people were accepted as OSGeo Charter Members: Alessandro Sarretta (2020) Italy Andrew Jeffrey (2020) Australia Antoni P?rez Navarro (2020) Spain Cameron Green (2020) South Africa David Garcia (2020) Aotearoa Edwin Liava'a (2020) Tonga Fabian Schindler (2020) Austria Francesco Bartoli (2020) Italy J?rome Bou? (2020) France Joachim Ungar (2020) Austria Jonah Sullivan (2020) Australia Joonho Lee (2020) South Korea J?rg Thomsen (2020) Germany Katja Haferkorn (2020) Germany Laura Mugeha (2020) Kenya Lauren?iu Nicola (2020) Romania Marino Carhuapoma (2020) Peru Mark Prins (2020) Netherlands Mark Varley (2020) France Neftal? Sillero (2020) Portugal Nora Lucioni 2020) Argentina Olivier Hagolle (2020) France Paolo Dabove (2020) Italy Paulo Coronado (2020) Colombia Rahul Chauhan (2020) India Raul Nanclares da Veiga (2020) M?xico Ricardo Silva (2020) Portugal Stefano Campus (2020) Italy Ujaval Gandhi (2020) India OSGeo now has a total number of 487 members for 62 countries. You can access a summary of our membership here, https://datastudio.google.com/reporting/774711f0-9854-432f-b41e-0154958f4566 Congratulations again to our new Charter Members! From victoria.rautenbach at gmail.com Mon Nov 16 05:25:31 2020 From: victoria.rautenbach at gmail.com (Victoria Rautenbach) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 15:25:31 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Reminder: OSGeo Virtual Community Sprint 2020 (17-19 November 2020) Message-ID: Dear All We would like to remind everyone of the OSGeo Virtual Community Sprint 2020 that will take place 17-19 November 2020. Information about schedule and meetings have been added to the wiki: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Virtual_Community_Sprint_2020 The sprint will be open every day from 8am UTC to midnight UTC, with a couple of special sessions scheduled (meeting links available in the wiki): - A short kick off meeting will start at 8am UTC every day in the main room - A welcome session is planned for Tue 17 Nov 1pm UTC in the main room - At the end of each day, a daily report session is planned around 10pm UTC The code sprint is also open to anyone! If you are interested in getting involved in any of the projects, join one of the daily sessions to get started. Any questions can be posted also to any of the available communication channels, https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Virtual_Community_Sprint_2020#Communication Happy coding, OSGeo Board -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: