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GeoNetwork and OpenLayers Enter OSGeo Incubation

posted by Satri on Monday November 13, @07:56AM        Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the incubation-and-quarantine dept.

From the OSGeo announcement mailing list: "The OSGeo Board has approved the application by the GeoNetwork project, and the OpenLayers project to enter the incubation process, a stepping stone to becoming full fledged OSGeo projects. The OpenLayers project is a pure JavaScript library for displaying map data in a web browser. The GeoNetwork project is a Java catalog application for standards compliant management of data and service metadata. GeoNetwork: http://www.geonetwork-opensource.org, OpenLayers: http://www.openlayers.org, OSGeo Incubation: http://incubator.osgeo.org " What is GeoNetwork? From the website: "GeoNetwork opensource is a Free and Open Source catalog application to manage spatially referenced resources. It provides powerful metadata editing and search functions as well as an embedded interactive web map viewer."

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• OpenLayers 2.2 released

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  by Satri (3) on Thursday November 16, @08:53AM (#1109)
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  Learn about it right here [openlayers.org] (via the Geowanking list).