[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo-Live 5.0 released - the Open Source Geospatial DVD

Alex Borrell borrellalex at gmail.com
Thu Sep 8 10:09:47 EDT 2011 

Congratulations Cameron to all the team in this enormous effort. I've
already downloaded
and ready to try it. Thanks

Alex Borrell
Mexico

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com>wrote:

> Cameron,
>
> I have pushed this announcement out via the OSGeo
> announcement channels.
>
> Congratulations!
>
> Best regards,
>
> On 11-09-07 05:26 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>
>> Version 5.0 of the OSGeo-Live GIS software collection <
>> http://live.osgeo.org>
>>
>> has been released.
>>
>> OSGeo-Live is a self-contained bootable DVD, USB flash drive and Virtual
>> Machine based upon Ubuntu Linux that is pre-configured with a wide variety
>> of
>> robust open source geospatial software.
>>
>> The applications can be trialled without installing anything on your
>> computer,
>> simply by booting the computer from the DVD or USB drive.
>>
>> A DVD or USB of OSGeo-Live is being distributed to every delegate at the
>> upcoming international conference for Free and Open Source Software,
>> http://2011.foss4g.org <http://2011.foss4g.org/>.
>>
>> Homepage: http://live.osgeo.org <http://live.osgeo.org/>
>>
>>
>>
>>    Highlights
>>
>>    * 47 Quality GeoSpatial Open Source applications installed and
>> pre-configured
>>    * Quality free world maps
>>    * One page overviews and quick starts for all applications
>>    * Overviews of key OGC standards
>>    * Translations for Greek, German, Polish, Spanish and Japanese
>>
>>
>>    Contents
>>
>> Browser Clients
>>
>>    * OpenLayers 2.10 - Browser GIS Client
>>    * Geomajas - 1.8 Browser GIS Client
>>    * Mapbender 2.7.2 - Geoportal Framework
>>    * MapFish 2.2 - Web Mapping Framework
>>    * GeoMoose 2.4 - Web GIS Portal
>>
>> Crisis Management
>>
>>    * Sahana Eden 0.5.5 - Disaster management
>>    * Ushahidi 2.1 - Mapping and Timeline for events
>>
>> Databases
>>
>>    * PostGIS 1.5 - Spatial Database
>>    * SpatiaLite 2.3.1 / 2.4 beta - Lightweight Database
>>    * Rasdaman 8.2 - Multi-Dimensional Raster Database
>>    * pgRouting 1.05 - Routing for PostGIS
>>
>> Desktop GIS
>>
>>    * Quantum GIS (QGIS) 1.7.0
>>    * GRASS GIS 6.4.1
>>    * gvSIG Desktop 1.11
>>    * User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) 1.2.2
>>    * Kosmo Desktop 2.0.1
>>    * OpenJUMP GIS 1.4.0.1
>>    * SAGA 2.0.7
>>    * OSSIM 1.8.6 - Image Processing
>>    * Geopublisher 1.7 - Catalogue
>>    * AtlasStyler 1.7 - Style Editor
>>    * osgEarth 2.0 - 3D Terrain Rendering
>>
>> Navigation and Maps
>>
>>    * GpsDrive 2.11 - GPS Navigation
>>    * Marble 1.0.2 - Spinning Globe
>>    * OpenCPN 2.5.0 - Marine GPS Chartplotter
>>    * OpenStreetMap Tools - JOSM, Merkaartor, Gosmore, Osmarender
>>    * Prune 12 - View, Edit and Convert GPS Tracks
>>    * Viking 9.9.94 - GPS Data Analysis and Viewer
>>    * zyGrib 5.0 - Weather Forecast Maps
>>
>> Spatial Tools
>>
>>    * GeoKettle 2.0-RC1 - ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) Tool
>>    * GDAL/OGR 1.8.0 - GeoSpatial Data Translation Tools
>>    * GMT 4.5.2 - Cartographic Rendering
>>    * Mapnik 0.7.1 - Cartographic Rendering
>>    * MapTiler 1.0beta2 - Create Map Tiles
>>    * OTB 3.10 - Image Processing
>>    * R Spatial Task View 2.12.1 - Statistical Programming
>>
>> Web Services
>>
>>    * GeoServer 2.1.1
>>    * MapServer 6.0.1
>>    * deegree 3.0
>>    * GeoNetwork 2.6.4 - Metadata Catalog and Catalog Services for Web
>>    * MapProxy 1.1.1 - Proxy WMS &amp; tile services
>>    * QGIS Server 1.7.0 - Web Map Service
>>    * 52°North WSS 2.2.0 - Web Security Service
>>    * 52°North WPS - 2.0 RC6 - Web Processing Service
>>    * 52°North SOS - 3.2.0 Sensor Observation Service
>>    * TinyOWS 1.0 - WFS-T Service
>>    * ZOO Project 1.0.0 - Web Processing Service
>>
>> Data
>>
>>    * Natural Earth 1.3.1 - Geographic Data Sets
>>    * OSGeo's North Carolina, USA Educational dataset
>>    * OpenStreetMap - Sample extract from OpenStreetMap
>>
>> Geospatial Libraries
>>
>>    * GeoTools - Java GIS Toolkit
>>    * MetaCRS - Coordinate Reference System Transformations
>>    * libLAS - LiDAR Data Access
>>
>>
>>    Credits
>>
>> Over 80 people have directly helped with OSGeo-Live packaging, documenting
>> and
>> translating, and thousands have been involved in building the packaged
>> software.
>>
>> Packagers, documenters and translators include: Activity Workshop, Agustín
>> Díez, Aikaterini Kapsampeli, Alan Boudreault, Alexandre Dube, Alex Mandel,
>> Andrea Antonello, Andrea Yanza, Angelos Tzotsos, Anne Ghisla, Anton
>> Patrushev,
>> Argyros Argyridis, Astrid Emde, Brian Hamlin, Bruno Binet, Cameron
>> Shorter,
>> Christos Iossifidis, Dane Springmeyer, Daniel Kastl, David Terrativa,
>> Diego
>> González, Dominik Helle, Eike Hinderk Jürrens, Eric Lemoine, Etienne Dube,
>> Fran
>> Boon, François Prunayre, Frank Gasdorf, Gavin Treadgold, Gérald Fenoy,
>> Hamish
>> Bowman, Haruyuki Seki, Henry Addo, Hernan Olivera, Howard Butler, Ian
>> Turton,
>> Jackie Ng, Jan Drewnak, Javier Sanchez, Jesús Gómez, Jim Klassen, Jody
>> Garnett,
>> Johan Van de Wauw, Jorge Sanz, José Antonio Canalejo, Judit Mays, Klokan
>> Petr
>> Pridal, Kristof Lange, Lance McKee, Lars Lingner, Lucía Sanjaime, Mage
>> Whopper,
>> Manuel Grizonnet, Marco Puppin, Mark Leslie, Massimo Di Stefano, Mauricio
>> Miranda, Mauricio Pazos, Michael Owonibi, Mike Adair, Milena Nowotarska,
>> Nathaniel V. Kelso, Ned Horning, Nobusuke Iwasaki, Oliver Tonnhofer, Òscar
>> Fonts, Otto Dassau, Pedro-Juan Ferrer, Pirmin Kalberer, Ricardo Pinho,
>> Ruth
>> Schoenbuchner, Samuel Mesa, Sergio Baños, Simon Cropper, Simon Pigot,
>> Stefan A.
>> Tzeggai, Stefan Hansen, Steve Lime, Thierry Badard, Thomas Baschetti,
>> Trevor
>> Wekel, Valenty Gonzalez, and Yoichi Kayama.
>>
>>
>>    Sponsoring organisations:
>>
>>    * LISAsoft provides sustaining resources and staff toward the
>> management
>>      and packaging of software onto the Live DVD. http://www.lisasoft.com
>>      <http://www.lisasoft.com/>
>>    * Information Center for the Environment at the University of
>> California,
>>      Davis provides hardware resources and development support to the
>> OSGeo
>>      Live project. http://ice.ucdavis.edu <http://ice.ucdavis.edu/>
>>
>>    * The DebianGIS and UbuntuGIS teams provide and quality-assure many of
>> the
>>      core packages. http://wiki.debian.org/**DebianGis<http://wiki.debian.org/DebianGis>and
>>      https://wiki.ubuntu.com/**UbuntuGIS<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGIS>
>>
>> --
>> Cameron Shorter
>> Geospatial Director
>> Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050
>> Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254
>>
>> Think Globally, Fix Locally
>> Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source
>> http://www.lisasoft.com
>>
>>
>>
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