Mateusz Loskot

Yesterday, Paul Ramsey from Refractions Research announced that GEOS project has moved to Subversion repository.

The new repository is available here through HTTP protocol. In order to checkout main development branch (trunk) of the GEOS sources, just run following command as anonymous user, without giving any username or password:

svn checkout http://svn.refractions.net/geos/trunk geos

All current commiters should be able to log in using their existing accounts and passwords.

There is a new IRC channel devoted for discussions about the FOSS4G 2006 fair called #foss4g2006. The channel is available on servers of the FreeNode.net IRC network.

The #foss4g2006 channel is logged, so you can always access previous discussions.

As you can read on the FOSS4G 2006 website http://foss4g2006.org:

FOSS4G2006 is a four day conference, bringing together all the Free and Open Source Software for Geoinformatics (FOSS4G) communities.

It will be hosted in Lausanne, Switzerland. I’m sure it will be one of the greatest GIS and Open Source event in the Europe this year.

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In the March 2006, when I was working in Taxus SI Ltd. company, I started porting the PROJ.4 library to Windows CE platform. I checkouted the source code of PROJ.4 library from its CVS repository and applied changes required to build it with the eVC++ 4.0 compiler.

At the end of March 2006 I announced first results and sent big patch to the proj@lists.maptools.org mailing list. During next months the Windows CE port was waiting for someone interested to test and use it.

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Today, Frank Warmerdam announced new release of his FWTools 1.0.5. Full announcement can be found in FWTools mailing list archives, here.

What’s new in the FWTools 1.0.5?

• Bug fixes and new features
• Enabled GEOS support in MapServer
• Enabled MrSID support (on Windows) by default, as opposed to as a plugin.

Next FWTools releases should also bring MrSID support for Linux users.

FWTools is a set of Open Source GIS binaries for Windows and Linux systems produced by Frank Warmerdam.

Short news, I’ve just updated and tested GEOS project files for Visual C++ 2005. I added new unit tests to the project. Note, that I created the project with Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition, but you can use it with any edition of VC++ 2005.

You can download the project files for Visual C++ 2005 from my unofficial GEOS repository. After you download the geos-msvc-2005-project.zip package, unzip it and read the README file inside. You only need to checkout GEOS sources from CVS or unpack them from the official archive. Note, that Visual C++ will launch unit tests automatically at the end of building process, as a post-build event.