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You may have heard! The first Spanish geoinformation centered podcast is "On the virtual air". You can read in English the excitement of the people at Very Spatial or go straight to the source and dust off your Spanish at Cartografia Para Llevar.

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.

The Import Cartography blog announced several geospatial data tools for Python users and developers. First there's Shapely 1.0: "Shapely is a Python package for programming with 2D geospatial geometries. It is based on GEOS. Shapely 1.0 is ignorant about coordinate and reference systems. Projection responsibility is left to specific applications", then there's Rtree 0.4: "Whether for in-memory feature stores, Plone content, or whatever -- we need an index to speed up the search for objects that intersect with a spatial bounding box.", SpatialIndex 1.3.0 and WorldMill 0.1. See also the numerous related stories below.

Juan Ardila writes "Hello!I would like to suggest our podcast for your consideration. It is the first Geospatial podcast in Spanish language and we think it may be useful for some folks out there. We are very focused on the spatial information field, GIS and RS. Our feed is http://podespacial.com/rss. Who are we? ("Geography to Go") We are the first and leading Spanish speaker podcast in the geo spatial and geo information science and techniques. Started in 2006 and with 37 episodes by now, we dedicate our podcast episodes to the diffusion of concepts, developments, news, trends, and application of geospatial tools, techniques and products. As professionals working on the geo-sector, and producers of "Geografia Para Llevar", we are mainly interested on creating an informed and active community on the field and to share the curiosity and excitement that we feel through effective communication tools. You can access our blogpage and listen to our episodes in www.podespacial.com (website in Spanish). For an automatically translated version (and therefore not so good) of the site please follow this link. Enjoy! Podcast Geografia Para Llevar ("Geography to Go")" A little search indicates we mentioned this podcast over two years ago. In terms of podcasts for our community, there's always VerySpatial for which I listened to every episode up to about a year ago (if I could buy some more time...). Some related stories copied below.