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FOSS4G Geonews: OpenAerialMap's Reboot, QGIS Hackfest and OpenStreetMap, PostGIS and more
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Still in my catching up efforts, here's the recent geospatial open source geonews.
A year ago we shared an OAM status report and now by email I got news of re-energizing the OpenAerialMap project and here's the technical proposal for the further development of OAM. I wish them good luck!
AntoloGIS offers an open source geospatial software dependency map, with no surprise, GDAL/OGR is in the middle.
Version 0.9.0 of the FDO Toolbox has been released.
GeoServer is now in OSGeo incubation.
There's an interesting summary of the Quantum GIS (QGIS) hackfest in Vienna, discussing its status and future. Yes, QGIS 2.0 is discussed with a target release date before the end of 2010!
Mapperz explains how you can easily load 'on demand' OpenStreetMap data in Quantum GIS 1.3.0.
Also related, V1 has an entry on the spatial data quality of OpenStreetMap.
There's an entry on connecting to GeoNetwork CSW from ArcMap and ArcGIS Explorer
Paul Ramsey's 30-minutes talk on The State of PostGIS is now available.
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Technology: The State of OpenAerialMap
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Christopher Schmidt offers an informative post on the state of OpenAerialMap. First time we mentioned OpenAerialMap.org is in August 2007, see related stories below.
From the entry: "With no active community around the project -- in part due to technical
limitations, in part due to any active groups seeking to help build that
community -- the project stagnated. With the easy problems solved, only
the hard problems were left, and the hard problems tended to be hard to
solve. [...] In an effort to kick-start the community, I think we have the following
needs:
* Improving the relationship with TelaScience, and the servers provided
by them, to be more clear.
* A clear vision for what OAM should be should be defined.
* An active community needs to be built around supporting and improving
the site, so that it does not stagnate again.
* It is important to make it as easy as possible for the target users
of OAM to upload data. [...] I hope this helps to clarify the situation with regard to OAM, and spur
the community onwards towards taking the base that has been started with
and developing a real solution to some of the hard problems the project
needs to solve to continue to grow."
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