[Francophone] ILWIS Open Source

[Robin]

Hello à tous,

Vous étiez au courant ? Cf ci dessous, ILWIS Open Source à partir de
Juillet 2007

Robin.

Source : http://www.itc.nl/news_events/archive/research/0011.asp

ITC's GIS software ILWIS migrates to open source
Press release

Enschede, The Netherlands, 30 January 2007

The Integrated Land and Water Information System (ILWIS, www.itc.nl/ilwis)
is a PC-based GIS & Remote Sensing software, developed by ITC. ILWIS
comprises a complete package of image processing, spatial analysis and
digital mapping. It is easy to learn and use; it has full on-line help,
extensive tutorials for direct use in courses and 25 case studies of
various disciplines.

ILWIS software is renowned for its functionality, user-friendliness and
low cost, and has established a wide user community over the years of its
development. Even after its last release in 2005, its user community
remained vivid, both within and outside ITC, however without a common base
for further system development.

In order to create better opportunities for the reuse and deployment of
GIS functionality in a wider community, the ITC directorate has recently
decided to make current ILWIS software free of charge and to migrate it as
such to open source software under the 52°North initiative.

52°North is an open initiative that advances the development of cutting
edge open source geospatial software. Leading research organizations in
the field of geoinformatics (ifgi, conterra, ITC, ESRI) participate in
52°North's innovative development for establishing open spatial data
infrastructures (SDI) and transformation of these into practical
technological solutions. 52°North uses the GPL license, which implies that
newly developed software should be open source as well. More information
can be found at www.52north.org/.

The migration has the following implications:

    * ILWIS software will be made freely available ('as-is' and free of
charge) as open source software (binaries and source code) under the
52°North initiative (GPL license) as per July 1st, 2007. The current
ILWIS download page (www.itc.nl/ilwis/downloads/default.asp) will be
directed to a page at 52°North, which will be announced in due time.
    * ILWIS support by ITC has been stopped as per January 1st, 2007.

In case you have further questions on the ILWIS migration please contact
ITC's 52°North team:

    * Rob Lemmens (lemmens at itc.nl)
    * Martin Schouwenburg (schouwenburg at itc.nl).

For questions on participation in 52°North, please contact info at 52north.org.