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The OSGeo announced the availability of their second journal on open source geospatial solutions. You can download it here in pdf [10.8 Mb]. Here's a part of the table of content: "Project Spotlight: - MapWindow
- GeoNetwork. Case Studies: - FAO GeoNetwork
- Winnipeg Neighbourhood
- Industrial Fishing." From the GeoNetwork article: "GeoNetwork "opensource" is a standardized and
decentralized Geospatial Information Management
System, based on the concept of distributed data
and information ownership and is designed to enable access to geo-referenced data and cartographic
products through descriptive metadata. Collections
maintained at different organizations are accessible
through a single entry point. This approach of geographic information management enhances easy
and timely access to existing spatial data for a wide
community of users, supporting informed decision-
making in a variety of application fields." Also interesting is an article on geospatial topology basics.
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GeoNetwork and OpenLayers Enter OSGeo Incubation 1 comment
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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."
OSGeo Journal
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Tyler Mitchell writes "The first volume of the OSGeo Journal has now been released. This is a major milestone for spreading the word about open source geospatial applications in general and for helping build communication between projects and users involved with the OSGeo Foundation. The Journal provides news, event summaries, project introductions, case studies, topical articles and more. Volume 2 is currently under development. For more information see http://www.osgeo.org/journal or download the 71 page (15MB) Journal directly from: http://www.osgeo.org/files/journal/final_pdfs/OSGe oJournal_vol1.pdf"
Technology: MapWindow GIS 4.4 Released
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The Free Geography Tools blog links to MapWindows GIS, an open source GIS application for Windows, which recently released version 4.4. Never featured before on Slashgeo, MapWindow is another alternative in the long list of open source GIS and geospatial applications. From the MapWindow website: "At the core of the MapWindow application is the MapWinGIS ActiveX control. Using this control, you can program custom mapping functionality directly into your own software. [...] MapWindow includes standard GIS data visualization features as well as DBF attribute table editing, shapefile editing, and grid importing and conversion.
MapWinGIS ActiveX includes a GIS API for shapefile and grid data with many built in GIS functions. "
OSGeo Updates 1 comment
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The OSGeo blog shares updates on their blog, first topic is the financial and fundraising issues, then recent membership elections and membership management and finally a reminder on the OSGeo Journal and the upcoming FOSS4G conference. From the first link: "We've never had any real commitment to revenue targets - how many donors, how much from grants, who is responsible for doing it all, etc. - so it is hard to show that we have a plan for meeting our budget expenditures. Autodesk is still committed to helping fund the start-up of OSGeo in the short term but to be truly sustainable we must augment that with additional funds. [...] I have spoken to several members who have grant-writing experience and I believe we have some great opportunities out there - especially for developing educational material and developing/delivering workshops across many domains." See also related stories below.
The United Nations: GeoNetwork, OpenStreetMap and More
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The Brain Off blog offers a nice entry on discussing links between a United Nations's FAO workshop, the OSGeo's GeoNetwork open source software and OpenStreetMap. Overall, an informative read. From the entry: "And in its way, an OSGeo conference at the FAO (not an uncontroversial agency anyway) is a bit subversive. Despite official support from high levels of the UN for open source software in development, the UN rarely eats its own dog food. [...] Next, Nicolas Chavent from the UN Joint Logistics Centre talked about the UN Spatial Data Infrastructure for Transport — an infrastructure and policy regime for sharing transport data. Particularly the ontology they’ve been working on to harmonize the innumerable schema in use around the world."
See also related links below.
OSGeo Journal Volume 3 Available
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The OSGeo mailing list announced the availability of the OGGeo journal volume 3 which concentrates on the FOSS4G proceedings. The contents: "Editorial & Index (PDF - 0.6 MB),
Integration & Development: Portable GIS: GIS on a USB Stick(PDF - 0.8 MB), Automatic Generation of Web-Based GIS/Database Applications (PDF - 0.9 MB), db4o2D - Object Database Extension for 2D Geospatial Types (PDF - 0.3 MB), Google Summer of Code for Geoinformatics (PDF - 0.3 MB)
Topical Interest: A Generic Approach to Manage Metadata Standards (PDF - 1.6 MB),
Towards Web Services Dedicated to Thematic Mapping (PDF - 0.4 MB),
Interoperability for 3D Geodata: Experiences with CityGML and OGC Web Services (PDF - 0.8 MB),
A Model-Driven Web Feature Service for Enhanced Semantic Interoperability (PDF - 0.7 MB),
Spatial-Yap: A Spatio-Deductive Database System (PDF - 1.5 MB),
Case Studies: The DIVERT Project: Development of Inter-Vehicular Reliable Telematics (PDF - 1.8 MB),
GRASS GIS and Modelling of Natural Hazards (PDF - 2.5 MB),
A Spatial Database to Integrate Information of the Rondonia Natural Resource Management Project (PDF - 0.4 MB), GeoSIPAM: Free and Open Source Software Applied to the Protection of the Brazilian Amazon (PDF - 1 MB),
The Amazon Deforestation Monitoring System (PDF - 0.7 MB)" A few related previous stories linked below.
GeoNetwork 2.2.0 Released
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The OSGeo-announce list informs us of the release of the GeoNetwork opensource geospatial catalog v2.2.0. You'll find the changelog on this official page.
From the announcement: "This is a mayor release for the project.
[...]
The software provides an easy to use web interface to search
geospatial data across multiple catalogs, combine distributed map
services in the embedded map viewer, send annotated interactive maps
to friends by email, publish geospatial data using the online metadata
editing tools and optionally the embedded GeoServer map server."
We discussed GeoNetwork before, see related stories below.
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