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

Wed Sep 7 08:32:21 PDT 2011

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 & 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 and
>       https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGIS
>
> --
> Cameron Shorter
> Geospatial Director
> Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050
> Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254
>
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