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gvSIG 1.0-stable Released
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Alvaro Anguix writes "gvSIG, the Open Source (GNU/GPL license) Geographic Information System developed by the Generalitat Valenciana reaches its version 1.0. With this release, gvSIG presents itself as an integrated GIS + SDI (Spatial Data Infrastructure) client, able to combine data from different local and remote sources (web services) and at the same time include advanced editing, geoprocessing, scripting language support and georeferencing among other features. All the details about this release, as well as the source code and the binary files, can be found in the project web site www.gvsig.gva.es.
The project is currently funded by the European Union (FEDER funds), which guarantees its continued evolution. Among other pending tasks, a road map of future gvSIG development will be published soon.
gvSIG counts with a large user and developer community registered in the mailing lists, true engines of the project. Through these lists, technical and other support is provided, and they serve as the glue that keeps together the community by practicing the open source philosophy of sharing our knowledge.
We encourage you to suscribe to these lists and to communicate through them all your questions, criticism and suggestions, which make possible that the project stays healthy and growing."
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gvSIG: Raster Pilot and Coordinate Reference System
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Alvaro Anguix writes "In the past, we always said that gvSIG has the purpose of cover every needs regarding the use of the geographic information by the integration of free technologies.
Following this roadmap, we can see gvSIG as a platform for the full-manage of the geographic information. Thus, every user can install the set of tools desired.
One of the working areas is related with the raster GIS and teledetection. It is inspired by this way-to-do and approaches the vector GIS to the raster GIS.
Now, we release the pilot of the company which won the public tender to develope the raster extension of gvSIG that allows to open new image file formats, apply color palettes to a DTM, the generation of histograms, to cut raster layers and define some new rendering filters.
We'd like also report the next release of the new module for the manage of CRSs (Coordinate Reference Systems), that features the possibility of CRS's databases (complete EPSG, IAU2000, and others), transformations of 3 and 7 parameters and transformations based upon a grid, and in general to get a maximum precision in CRS reprojections
Both extensions can be found in the http://www.gvsig.gva.es/index.php?id=1566&L=0. They are designed as regular extensions that can be plugged in to any of the gvSIG 1.0 stable versions (gvSIG 1.0.x)
Regards
Alvaro Anguix
IVER TI SA
www.gvsig.com
www.iver.es" Alvaro previously informed Slashgeo readers about gvSIG.
Technology: gvSIG Now Connects to Oracle Spatial
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Alvaro Anguix writes "geoBD extension that allows access
to spatial databases, modifying the old interface to access them is
available in gvSIG. It also provides the Oracle Spatial connector to
the spatial database connector already existing (PostGIS, MySQL, and
HSQLDB) allowing the user to access to a any table from either Oracle
Spatial or Oracle Locater (since Oracle 9i) containing a geometry
column of type SDO GEOMETRY.
It is available in the Extensions (http://www.gvsig.gva.es/index.php?id=1652&L=2 <http://www.gvsig.gva.es/index.php?id=1652&L=2>) option from the Downloads section of the web page. Advice: To install this extension you must have correctly installed gvSIG 1.0.2 version.
Regards
Alvaro Anguix
IVER TI SA
www.gvsig.com
www.iver.es"
It is available in the Extensions (http://www.gvsig.gva.es/index.php?id=1652&L=2 <http://www.gvsig.gva.es/index.php?id=1652&L=2>) option from the Downloads section of the web page. Advice: To install this extension you must have correctly installed gvSIG 1.0.2 version.
Regards
Alvaro Anguix
IVER TI SA
www.gvsig.com
www.iver.es"
Technology: Sextante Analysis Suite for gvSIG Released
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The Geowanking list informs us Sextante, an analysis suite for the open source gvSIG GIS, has been released as open source as well. The new, in Spanish only for the moment, is here and the previous story about gvSIG here. From the press release: "The aim of this suite is to add advanced spatial data analysis capabilities to gvSIG (http://www.gvsig.gva.es), for both raster and vector data.
The suite comprises 161 extensions, including modules dealing with geostatistics, geomorphometry, hydrology or point pattern analysis, among others, along with basic raster and vector data handling utilities. [...] Both the website and the software are only available in spanish, but english versions are on its way." See related stories below for gvSIG announcements.
Technology: gvSIG 1.1 Released
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The open source GIS gvSIG 1.1 has been recently announced. All Points Blog explains the buzz around gvSIG: "- The team includes two rather large main contractors and a host of smaller ones. There are also volunteers. That's about 40 developers, with total staff (including management) at about 70-80.
- The current funding includes E12 million that runs from 2007 until 2013.
- There are 1000 subscribers on the project list, and the project has been downloaded 70,000 times.
- The plan for success included the idea of starting small, proving the result worked and growing the project from there. The guiding principle is "we have to share knowledge" and the group is anxious to show the success of this new model for collaboration." See below for previous gvSIG coverage.
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.
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