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

Cameron Shorter cameron.shorter at gmail.com
Thu Sep 8 13:41:23 PDT 2011


Thanks all for your positive feedback, but I'd be remiss not to point 
out who really deserves the credit.

We have in the order of 80 people have contributed at various times to 
packaging and translating applications on OSGeo-Live. But in particular, 
Alex Mandel, Hamish Bowman, Brian Hamlin and Angelos Tzotsos have put in 
an exceptional amount of unglamorous work to get this release out. They 
have turned releases over, trawled through compile logs looking for 
bugs, tested and then re-tested applications, and hovered on IRC chat 
answering questions and supporting other developers get their 
applications working. It is the combined work of all these people, 
working quietly in the background on lots of small tasks, which makes 
the DVD the quality product it has become.

I think the true value of this DVD is not just that people have the 
chance to easily trial Geospatial Open Source software, but that it 
presents the software in a professional way, demonstrating the attention 
to detail present in our OSGeo-Stack, which gives new users the 
confidence to switch from proprietary software.

Oh, and Stephen, we do include information about pgrouting here:
http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/pgrouting_overview.html

On 09/09/11 03:12, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> Cameron,
>
> Awesome job on this. I download it last night burnt a dvd and booted 
> it to my laptop. Works great! Now I'm sorry that pgRouting and PAGC do 
> not have submission on the DVD. I guess I will have to work on getting 
> them on the next iteration.
>
> Thanks for all your effort on this.
>
> -Steve W
>
> On 9/7/2011 8:26 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
>>
>> Think Globally, Fix Locally
>> Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source
>> http://www.lisasoft.com
>>
>>
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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
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