Archive for October, 2007

GIS in Practice Conference in Warsaw, 29 Nov 2007

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

On 29 November 2007 an interesting event will take place in Warsaw, Poland. The annual XIV GIS in Practice Conference is devoted to discuss topics about space management, local community development and communal participation.

Full name of the conference in Polish language:

XIV edycja konferencji GIS W PRAKTYCE – GIS – zarządzanie przestrzenią, rozwĂłj lokalny i partycypacja społeczna

Unfortunately, I couldn’t find English translation of the conference overview and program, so I decided to produce it myself. Here is, more or less, detailed summary of the conference topics:

  • New role of GIS in communication and communal participation support. (Paweł Decewicz, Centrum Gospodarki Przestrzennej)
  • What does the geospatial infrastructure and INSPIRE directive bring to local governments, communities and municipalities? (dr ElĹźbieta Bielecka, Instytut Geodezji i Kartografii):
    • What exactly is INSPIRE?
    • Who are INSPIRE beneficiaries?
    • Is INSPIRE supposed to be success?
  • Geoportals, traditional GIS on the Internet or another media (Maciej Sztampke, ESRI)
    • New directions of GIS technology
    • Do these tools provide users with objective information?
    • Examples of interesting applications
  • Panel discussion: What does INSPIRE implementation and strategy mean for local governments?
    Guests: prof. Bogdan Ney, dr Marek Baranowski, dr Tomasz Stuczyński and Marcin Guzik. Moderator: Paweł Decewicz
  • Discussion of spatial conflicts in areas of NATURA 2000 network. (Katarzyna Twardowska i Ryszard Zakrzewski, Ministry of the Environment)
  • Case Study: Geoportals in promotion of NATURA 2000 areas of Baltic Sea countries (SMAN) on the example of Polish regions: Suwalszczyzna and AugustĂłw. (dr Marcin Bajorski, City of AugustĂłw)
  • Case study: GIS and Information Society, Graphic Database Varsovia.pl – preserving city’s identity. (dr Marek Ostrowski)
  • Presentation: GIS in space management – ESRI solutions. (ESRI)
  • Lecture: Using CommunityViz as GIS application to support public debate about the local development plan. (Paweł Decewicz, Centrum Gospodarki Przestrzennej)

All information above was stolen from the conference website maintained by Centrum Promocji Informatyki Ltd. company, the conference organizer.

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GDAL/OGR 1.4.3 Released

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

The GDAL/OGR Team Finally, the long awaited stable release of GDAL and OGR has been published. Current stable release number is 1.4.3. There is not much of magic of numerology behind this number and it just says it consists of 3rd iteration of patches to 1.4 stable release.

The official GDAL/OGR 1.4.3 announcement says:

Folks,

The GDAL Team is pleased to announce the release of GDAL/OGR 1.4.3.
This is intended to be a successive bug fix release after GDAL/OGR 1.4.2
and it’s extending the GDAL 1.4.x stable branch.
This release does not include the many new features in the development
trunk (which will appear as GDAL/OGR 1.5.0).

With GDAL/OGR 1.4.3, 65 Trac tickets were addressed:

http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/query?status=closed&milestone=1.4.3

The NEWS is available at:

http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/1.4.3-News

Source packages with GDAL/OGR 1.4.3 are available at:

http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal143.zip
http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal-1.4.3.tar.gz

Happy New GDAL!

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GDAL 1.4.3 RC3

Monday, October 29th, 2007

Hello GDAL lovers again :-). The new day today brings us fresh package with GDAL 1.4.3 Release Candidate 3. It consists of small fixes for annoying issue about changed data and time of pymod files. If you are interested in details of the problem, please refer to Ticket #1954 on the GDAL Trac.

Traditionally, here is the original announcement I posted to the gdal -dev list:

Folks,

This is announcement of new Release Candidate of GDAL 1.4.3.
The only update is patch fixing problem that Frank reported today:

http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/1954

and shortly discussed here:

http://lists.maptools.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2007-October/014651.html

GDAL 1.4.3 Release Candidate 3
——————————

65 tickets were addressed:

http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/query?status=closed&milestone=1.4.3

The NEWS is available at:

http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/1.4.3-News

Source packages with 1.4.3 “Release Candidate 3″ are available at:

http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal143rc3.zip
http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal-1.4.3rc3.tar.gz

We would be thankful for testing and reporting any issues.

Best regards
– Mateusz Loskot

…and yet another step toward the GDAL 1.4.3 stable has been left behind our backs.

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Win32 binaries of GDAL 1.4.3 RC2

Sunday, October 28th, 2007

Frank prepared Windows binaries (32-bit) based on GDAL 1.4.3 Release Candidate 2:

For those for whom building from source is inconvenient, please consider testing using these binaries.

The Win32 binaries are available at the OSGeo Download Server:

http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/win32/1.4.3

Thanks in advance for testing.

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GDAL 1.4.3 RC2

Sunday, October 28th, 2007

This is very important update to the GDAL 1.4.3 Release Candidate 1 published yesterday. I screwed and generated GDAL 1.4.3 RC1 packages with sources from trunk, so users found it surprising when they encountered a bunch of new features and drivers. On the other hand, it was a pre-announcement of the GDAL 1.5.0 release :-P

Here is the official announcement sent on the gdal-dev list:

From – Sun Oct 28 18:50:31 2007
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:50:26 +0100
From: Mateusz Loskot <mateusz@loskot.net>
To: gdal-dev@lists.maptools.org
Subject: GDAL /OGR 1.4.3 Release Candidate 2

Folks,

*** IMPORTANT ***
I appologize for my mistake during preparation of gdal-1.4.3 RC1
and you got sources from ‘trunk’ instead of from ‘branches/1.4′.
Following GDAL 1.4.3 RC 2 is dedicated to correct this issue.
Special thanks to Joaquim Luis reporting the problem very fast.

GDAL 1.4.3 Release Candidate 2
——————————

64 tickets were addressed:

http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/query?status=closed&milestone=1.4.3

The NEWS is available at:

http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/1.4.3-News

Source packages with 1.4.3 “Release Candidate 2″ are available at:

http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal143rc2.zip
http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal-1.4.3rc2.tar.gz

We would be thankful for testing and reporting any issues.

Best regards
–
Mateusz Loskot

Huh, that was fast testing

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GDAL 1.4.3 RC1

Sunday, October 28th, 2007

It’s been quite a long way, but finally GDAL 1.4.3 RC1 was issued today. Initially, the 1.4.3 was planned to be final patch release for 1.4.x but recently heard rumors tell me that we can expect 1.4.4 in near future.

Here is the RC1 announcement I posted on the gdal-dev list:

Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 06:57:53 +0100
From: Mateusz Loskot <mateusz@loskot.net>
To: gdal-dev@lists.maptools.org
Subject: [Gdal-dev] GDAL /OGR 1.4.3 Release Candidate 1

Folks,

The GDAL Team is pleased to announce that today we’ve cleaned
all issues assigned to the roadmap of milestone 1.4.3 and
we are very close to issue next stable release numbered 1.4.3.

64 tickets were addressed:

http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/query?status=closed&milestone=1.4.3

The NEWS is available at:

http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/1.4.3-News

Source packages with 1.4.3 “Release Candidate 1″ are available at:

http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal143rc1.zip
http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal-1.4.3rc1.tar.gz

We would be thankful for testing and reporting any issues.

Best regards
–
Mateusz Loskot

You should expect final stable release for 1.4.3 very soon.

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