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gvSIG Mobile 0.2 Pilot is Now Available
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News Office. gvSIG Project writes "A new version of the gvSIG Mobile pilot have been released. The main new features of this version are the the alphanumeric and graphical CAD-like edition, and the installation over a PhoneME virtual machine.
It's available from the Downloads section of gvSIG Mobile.
Check the new features included in this version from the New features section."
You'll find a lot of previous gvSIG stories with a search.
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gvSIG Update Version 1.1.1 and 3D Pilot Extension
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Alvaro Anguix writes "gvSIG 1.1.1, a partial update of gvSIG 1.1, is now available for download in which some problems detected by our users have been fixed, so it is possible to working normally with the application.
As usual, it can be downloaded from the Download section of the web page.
The problems fixed in this distribution can be checked from the Release Notes Section and to install the partial update you must have gvSIG 1.1 correctly installed.
On the other hand, the pilot application awarded the development contract for the 3D Extension by the Regional Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport is available too. It allows the creation of 3D Views, XYZ-projected as well as spherical (planetary), where local and remote data sources can be loaded as layers, and displayed using most of the options available in 2D like transparency, labeling, legends, etc.
It's available in the Extensions section of the web page and to install this extension you must have correctly installed gvSIG 1.1.1 version." I copied below several previous stories on the open source GIS gvSIG.
gvSIG Community
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Alvaro Anguix writes "Hello everyone
This mail is being sent to several lists, so I apologize for those who receive multiple copies.
We intend to put in place an infrastructure that allows collaboration on a speedy, direct and open way with gvSIG.
We are at the beginning of this work, but we prefer to announce it and start realeasing what we are doing, better than waiting to have “the Cathedral”.
You can visit https://gvsig.org/ to see what we are having prepared. In the Documentation section, you will find documentation for users and on-line developers.
At the same time, two of the issues on which we are taking into account the Community as much as possible, are testing and translations tasks.
All of you interested in testing should contact Manual Madrid indicating in which areas of gvSIG you would like to help as testers, if you are a single tester or a coordinator of a testing group, and all those things that might occur to you.
With regard to the translations, the coordinator is Mario Carrera . We know that several groups of translators are being organized in different places like Germany and Italy. We have great interest in having the highest quality in english translations, as a base from which extend gvSIG to other linguistic communities. Of course, this is applying not only to the gvSIG interface but to the documentation in general.
That's why, on the issue of translation into English, we would like to have translators and supervisors, that are mostly specialists in Geomatics and english native-tongued.
Finally, a few days ago we were in the 2^nd Meeting in Open GIS Software in Girona. We congratulate the organizers and greet all the people with whom we had the opportunity to share a few days very rewarding, both professionally and personally.
Wish the Meetings of Girona become an unmissable event every year.
Sincerely, Gabi"
gvSIG has been mentioned several times before, see related stories below.
This mail is being sent to several lists, so I apologize for those who receive multiple copies.
We intend to put in place an infrastructure that allows collaboration on a speedy, direct and open way with gvSIG.
We are at the beginning of this work, but we prefer to announce it and start realeasing what we are doing, better than waiting to have “the Cathedral”.
You can visit https://gvsig.org/ to see what we are having prepared. In the Documentation section, you will find documentation for users and on-line developers.
At the same time, two of the issues on which we are taking into account the Community as much as possible, are testing and translations tasks.
All of you interested in testing should contact Manual Madrid indicating in which areas of gvSIG you would like to help as testers, if you are a single tester or a coordinator of a testing group, and all those things that might occur to you.
With regard to the translations, the coordinator is Mario Carrera . We know that several groups of translators are being organized in different places like Germany and Italy. We have great interest in having the highest quality in english translations, as a base from which extend gvSIG to other linguistic communities. Of course, this is applying not only to the gvSIG interface but to the documentation in general.
That's why, on the issue of translation into English, we would like to have translators and supervisors, that are mostly specialists in Geomatics and english native-tongued.
Finally, a few days ago we were in the 2^nd Meeting in Open GIS Software in Girona. We congratulate the organizers and greet all the people with whom we had the opportunity to share a few days very rewarding, both professionally and personally.
Wish the Meetings of Girona become an unmissable event every year.
Sincerely, Gabi"
gvSIG has been mentioned several times before, see related stories below.
Technology: 4th gvSIG Conference
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Alvaro Anguix writes "From 1st to 5th December 2008, Valencia will play host to the 4th gvSIG Conference in the Valencia Conference Centre. This event is organized by the Regional Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport (CIT). The Open Geospatial Consortium Meeting and the Eclipse Day event will be celebrated at the same time. The objective is to consolidate them as the benchmark forum for open source GIS projects, to create a framework for defining open source and interoperable GIS standards and to create a conference where experiences can be shared among FLOSS communities.
The 4th gvSIG Conference aims to make the most of the growth of this technology and bring together experts, scientists, institutions, companies and students thanks to the support of the authorities, universities and participating companies, without whose help this project and the organization of these event would not be possible.
The 4th gvSIG Conference is the setting for one of the many planning meetings organized by the Open Geospatial Consortium’s Technical Committee and the international Eclipse Day event too. The aim of the first one is to facilitate the exchange of ideas in an open source technology environment. The theme of the international Eclipse Day event, on 2nd December, will be “Modeling Technologies and CASE tools”.
The website will be available in a few days. There you will find all the information regarding the conference.
Regards,
The 4th gvSIG Conference organization comitee."
The 4th gvSIG Conference aims to make the most of the growth of this technology and bring together experts, scientists, institutions, companies and students thanks to the support of the authorities, universities and participating companies, without whose help this project and the organization of these event would not be possible.
The 4th gvSIG Conference is the setting for one of the many planning meetings organized by the Open Geospatial Consortium’s Technical Committee and the international Eclipse Day event too. The aim of the first one is to facilitate the exchange of ideas in an open source technology environment. The theme of the international Eclipse Day event, on 2nd December, will be “Modeling Technologies and CASE tools”.
The website will be available in a few days. There you will find all the information regarding the conference.
Regards,
The 4th gvSIG Conference organization comitee."
Technology: gvSIG Metadata Prototype is Now Available in gvSIG
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Virtual News Office, gvSIG Project writes "The gvSIG metadata prototype is now available. The aim of this prototype is to make catalogation of geospatial information easier, providing gvSIG with some specific features. First of all, it allows us to extract automatically some metadata from the data source (only from shapefiles right now). Secondlly it has an editor that allows us to complete the rest of the metadata. And finally we´ll be able to publish the metadata on a catalog server (only on Geonetwork right now). It is available in the Extensions section of the web page. Advice: To install this extension you must have correctly installed gvSIG 1.1.x version."
gvSIG has been mentioned regularly. See also related stories below.
Access to Developing Versions of gvSIG
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News Office. gvSIG project writes "Dear Users,
This is to inform you the gvSIG project has created a repository that will allow access to all the builds that it generates.
Within the developing phases of gvSIG, prior to the published versions in the official web of the project, there are builds being generated. The builds are used internally to test new features, they are extremely unstable and do not have the entire features of the program. Certain builds could end up being official versions. Allowing users free access to the builds will let them test the new features in which the developing team is working at the moment and evaluate the development state.
The URL to access the builds is:
https://gvsig.org/web/projects/gvsig-desktop/devel
If you are interested to see the latest features of gvSIG that are being developed, you can download the last build of the "trunk" version (branch 12xx) called "1211". In this build you will have access to new tools for the raster, remote sensing, advance symbology, etc.
On the other hand, the application is being restructured in a way that it will allow in the future to improve the actual stability of the program as well as offering an API easier to be developed. These builds are included in the "20xx" series.
We hope this initiative contribute to the understanding of the gvSIG project by the community as well as facilitate the collaboration with voluntary testers."
This is to inform you the gvSIG project has created a repository that will allow access to all the builds that it generates.
Within the developing phases of gvSIG, prior to the published versions in the official web of the project, there are builds being generated. The builds are used internally to test new features, they are extremely unstable and do not have the entire features of the program. Certain builds could end up being official versions. Allowing users free access to the builds will let them test the new features in which the developing team is working at the moment and evaluate the development state.
The URL to access the builds is:
https://gvsig.org/web/projects/gvsig-desktop/devel
If you are interested to see the latest features of gvSIG that are being developed, you can download the last build of the "trunk" version (branch 12xx) called "1211". In this build you will have access to new tools for the raster, remote sensing, advance symbology, etc.
On the other hand, the application is being restructured in a way that it will allow in the future to improve the actual stability of the program as well as offering an API easier to be developed. These builds are included in the "20xx" series.
We hope this initiative contribute to the understanding of the gvSIG project by the community as well as facilitate the collaboration with voluntary testers."
ESRI Refuses Conference Access to Open Source Companies 2 comments
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It may be sensationalism, but strange nonetheless. From the ESRI Spain conference incident thread, writen by one Spanish company employee supporting gvSIG: "Ok, some coworkers of him went to Madrid few days
ago to attend the Annual ESRI Users Conference. Because IVER has
customers that use ESRI technology they, as every year, wanted to know
the latest "arc-news". Obviously they registered previously and they
were confirmed by the organization.
Well, when they tried to register at the beginning of the conference,
the Marketing Director invited them to abandon the conference. Even
more, the Managing Director of ESRI Spain insisted one of the IVER
people that "to talk with customers, better she should go to a café or
on the street". Quite annoying and bizarre!" You can read the whole thread to learn more about reactions and also look at the original entry in Spanish.
gvSIG Mobile Ported to Openmoko
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iknowjoseph writes "Juan Lucas Domínguez Rubio has announced the release of gvSIG Mobile for Openmoko; the first time the software has been made available for handhelds not based on Windows Mobile:
Screenshots, link to the source, installation instructions etc available from Juan Lucas' blog." We mentioned Openmoko before and gvSIG plenty of times. This is an interesting step for mobile (e.g. on phones) open source GIS.Features include:
Browsing Spherical Mercator remote tile services (OpenStreetMap layers and Yahoo Maps Satellite layer).
Easily configurable access to standard WMS servers (version 1.1.1). The application applies a tile approach.
Support for the vector data file de facto standard (ESRI shapefile, *.shp).
Access to GPS device via Gpsd. A rotating arrow shows on the map indicating position and heading. Coordinates are also shown.
gvSIG: Translation Management Extension is Now Available
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gvSIG project News Office writes "The extension to easily manage the user interface over a gvSIG installation, allowing for the translation to new languages without having to install a new version of gvSIG is now available. It also allows updating or to complete languages already installed, and facilitates the translation to new languages using some of the ones already installed as a reference by exporting the necessary files, as well as the uninstalling of a language translation.
It is available in the Extensions section of the web page.
New languages are included too, as well as updates of some languages already included in gvSIG, to be loaded with this extension in gvSIG 1.1.2. Languages can be downloaded from here, where is the explanation about how to load them in gvSIG too.
Advice: To install this extension you must have correctly installed gvSIG 1.1.2 version."
See gvSIG related stories below.
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