Archive for January, 2010
Sunday, January 31st, 2010
The Planet OSGeo is growing. Today, on behalf of the OSGeo Community, I’m happy to announce Tamas has joined with his blog Sharpening GIS at Your Will.
Tamas has been a contributor to GDAL and MapServer projects for years. He develops and maintains .NET/C# interfaces for both of the projects. He also is a member of the Project Steering Committee for GDAL project.
Welcome Tamas!
Tags: announcement, blog, planet, planet osgeo, Tamas Szekeres
Posted in c#, gis, osgeo | No Comments »
Saturday, January 30th, 2010
Frank has just posted announcement about freshly released GDAL/OGR 1.7.0:
This is the first major new release since the 1.6.0 release approximately one year ago
This new version brings quite a nice collection of new drivers for raster and vector data formats:
- New Raster Drivers: BAG, EPSILON, Northwood/VerticalMapper, R, Rasterlite, SAGA GIS Binary, SRP (USRP/ASRP), EarthWatch .TIL, WKT Raster
- GDAL PCIDSK driver using the new PCIDSK SDK by default
- New Vector drivers : DXF, GeoRSS, GTM, PCIDSK and VFK
- New utilities: gdaldem, gdalbuildvrt now compiled by default
- Add support for Python 3.X. Compatibility with Python 2.X preserved
- Remove old-generation Python bindings
- Significantly improved raster drivers: GeoRaster, GeoTIFF, HFA, JPEG2000 JasPer, JPEG2000 Kakadu, NITF
- Significantly improved vector drivers: CSV, KML, SQLite/SpataiLite, VRT
Tags: announcement, frank warmerdam, gdal, ogr, release, version
Posted in gdal, gis, open source, osgeo, wktraster | No Comments »
Saturday, January 30th, 2010
Activity of the OSGeo Community quite heavily relies on the Freenode IRC network, so this may be an interesting news:
hackers are exploiting a weakness in the Mozilla Firefox browser to wreak havoc on Freenode and other networks that cater to users of internet relay chat.
Here is the whole story Firefox-based attack wreaks havoc on IRC users posted to The Register
Mr Dan Goodin, I would wish you don’t cultivate the mainstream media alignment regarding the use of word hacker. Don’t call a hacker someone who has unlawful intentions, please.
Tags: Dan Goodin, firefox, freenode, Goodin, irc
Posted in author, open source, osgeo, security, systems | No Comments »
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
A few minutes ago, Bill Hoffman from Kitware posted short message to the CMake project mailing list with an interesting announce:
Kitware launched its first developer blog today with contributions from Company technical and business leaders.
The CMake build system is one of the main category of topics on the Kitware blog, so I presume it may be of interest of OSGeo Community as the CMake build system is slowly winning over more and more folks here :-)
First CMake-related post is about Deploying on Windows with DLL Manifest Issue
Another interesting post on the blog is Will Schroeder’s answer to the question Why Open Source Will Rule Scientific Computing? It’s really worth reading.
Tags: blog, build, cmake, Hoffman
Posted in cmake, gdal, geos, geotiff, liblas, linux, open source, osgeo, osx, programming, qgis, soci, windows | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
I’m delighted to announce Daniel Morissette has joined the Planet OSGeo with his very own blog launched recently: Geo Gears, Nuts & Bolts!
In this blog, I talk about open source geospatial software, cool mapping applications and toys… and anything I might find of interest –Daniel
Welcome Daniel!
Tags: blog, Daniel Morissette, osgeo, planet, planet osgeo
Posted in events, gis, open source, osgeo, programming | No Comments »