[OSGeo-Discuss] Whitebox Geospatial Analysis Tools v. 2.0

[Cameron Shorter]

Doug, John,
 From the next release of OSGeo-Live (6.0), we will need to retire 
support for Sun Java. Hence OpenJDK will be required instead. Good news 
is that OpenJDK has gotten much better, and I suggest checking again to 
see if Whitebox GAT can be moved to OpenJDK.

On 24/04/2012 1:57 AM, Doug_Newcomb at fws.gov wrote:
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> Software looks nice. With regards to putting on the live DVD, I 
> noticed that Whitebox requires the SUN  Java JRE to be installed.  I'm 
> not sure you can distribute the  JRE  on a live DVD, since Oracle 
> retired  the 'Operating System Distributor License for Java’. 
> http://jdk-distros.java.net/
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> Doug
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> Doug Newcomb
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> John,
> Congratulations on your release.
> I wonder whether this project is a candidate for OSGeo-Live,
> http://live.osgeo.org.
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> In looking through your introduction I have a few questions, which were
> not obvious to me.
>
> What type of user would wish to make use of Whitebox GAT? What tasks
> would they be performing?
>
> Does Whitebox make use of other geospatial libraries? Maybe geotools or
> sextante? One of the most effective ways of attracting co-developers is
> to build upon an existing project or library and adopt developers from
> this project.
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> Who is currently using Whitebox GAT?
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> You would likely wish to weave answers to these questions into your
> website home page.
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> On 22/04/2012 10:39 PM, John Lindsay wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Many of you have been asking when a new version of the open-source 
> GIS Whitebox would be released. Well we've been very busy working on 
> it, and now we're are excited to announce that the new version of 
> Whitebox GAT has finally arrived. Please visit 
> <http://live.osgeo.org/>http://www.uoguelph.ca/~hydrogeo/Whitebox/index.html 
> for more information.
> >
> > Whitebox has been completely re-written. The main reason for this 
> was to allow Whitebox to be truly multi-platform, running equally well 
> on MS Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. This has been a major undertaking 
> and as such there are still a few tools and features from Whitebox 
> 1.0.7 that need to be translated over to the new version. We're 
> looking for volunteers to help with the work yet to be done (including 
> working on the help documentation, testing and reporting bugs). 
> Whitebox is now written using Java, the world's most popular 
> multi-platform programming language. I know there are a lot of you out 
> there with Java programming skills who could contribute to the 
> project. There have also been many additions to version 2.0, including 
> support for displaying vector ShapeFiles, plenty of new tools, new 
> image processing functionality, and an improved user interface ( 
> <http://www.uoguelph.ca/%7Ehydrogeo/Whitebox/index.html>http://www.uoguelph.ca/~hydrogeo/Whitebox/screenshots.html 
> ). As always, we welcome any feedback to help improve the software. 
> Please contact John Lindsay with any comments you may have.
> >
> > John Lindsay, Ph.D., Associate Professor
> > Department of Geography, University of Guelph
> > Guelph, Ont. N1G 2W1   CANADA
> > Phone: (519) 824-4120 x56074
> > Fax: (519) 837-2940
> > Email:  jlindsay at uoguelph.ca
> > Department Web: 
> <http://www.uoguelph.ca/%7Ehydrogeo/Whitebox/screenshots.html>http://www.uoguelph.ca/geography/people/faculty/lindsay.shtml
> > Whitebox GAT Web: http://www.uoguelph.ca/~hydrogeo/Whitebox/index.html
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Cameron Shorter
Geospatial Solutions Manager
Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050
Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254

Think Globally, Fix Locally
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