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gvSIG Update Version 1.1.1 and 3D Pilot Extension

posted by Satri on Monday January 14, @09:53AM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the GIS-with-a-3D-roar dept.
Open Source Community Software 3D
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.

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gvSIG: Raster Pilot and Coordinate Reference System [+]
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 [+]
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"
Technology: Sextante Analysis Suite for gvSIG Released [+]
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.
Introductory Open Source GIS Articles [+]
The OSGeo mailing list links to a new articles on open source GIS from the GIS Development magazine, including articles on Quantum GIS and deegree. From the "Open Source Tools for GIS Professionals" article: "Open Source Software (OSS) has been maturing over the last years into robust, well-supported tools whose code base grows exponentially. Open Source GIS is no exception to this trend and it is now able to address the needs of GIS professionals worldwide. [...] Building on existing OSS operating systems, database, web services and software development technologies, today we find well-established OSS systems focused on geospatial applications. These systems range from spatially enabled databases like PostGIS, data analysis environments like GRASS, web server technologies (MapServer, GeoServer, Deegree) and client-building tools (MapBuilder, MapBender) to professional desktop GIS tools like gvSIG. Due to their emphasis on interoperability, these OSS tools have strong support for OGC standards, including web geoservices." See the open source community topic to learn more about previous stories on the subject.
Technology: gvSIG 1.1 Released [+]
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.
Technology: gvSIG Third Annual Conference Report [+]
Mapping Hacks has a interesting report on the gvSIG third annual conference. gvSIG is an important desktop GIS system written in Java, now in the OSGeo incubation process. From the report: "The conference drew a diverse audience of several hundred attendees from Europe and Latin America. As the conference - and indeed gvSIG itself - has largely been funded by government agencies, the crowd here has been a pretty fascinating mix of hackers and bureaucrats, one that is hopefully representative of the future role of Open Source GIS in governments around the world. [...] Sr. Camargo made an observation that, I think, perfectly captures the considerable value of Free and Open Source software to the less wealthy parts of the world, where, perhaps, the analytical capacities of GIS for environmental and civic planning is needed most. He said — and I paraphrase in English — “We could not buy the licenses for proprietary GIS software. If we tell the mayor of this village what the software license alone costs, he will go nuts. Should he spend all this money on GIS software? He would rather use the money to fix the roads in his village.” He added: “But we could not even simply obtain the software without a license. If we were to pirate the proprietary software, we would only get it in English — and then no one in the village would be able to use it.”" Here's more discussion on the OSGeo mailing list.
gvSIG 1.1.1: ArcSDE Client Extension [+]
Alvaro Anguix writes "The ArcSDE client extension for gvSIG 1.1.1 that allows users to access this kind of spatial databases, easily loading geometries by using the same interface as the rest of database layers is available. So far this extension only allows access to vector layers in the database. From the gvSIG project, we would like to sincerely thank the Ministry for Sustainable Development and Territorial Planning of the Region of Murcia for its dedication to supporting this new extension, substantially improving the application for the benefit of all members of the gvSIG community. It is available in the Extensions option from the Downloads section of the web page. Advice: To install this extension you must have correctly installed gvSIG 1.1.1 version. Regards, Alvaro Anguix gvSIG Team" See also gvSIG related stories below.
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