Mateusz Loskot

Short announcement, today I set up small mirror for FWTools - Open Source GIS Binary Kit for Windows and Linux. It’s available through HTTP under http://fwtools.loskot.net.

Recently, some users reported they have problems with accessing the main FWTools website from various countries, like China, so perhaps this mirror will help them to access the package without any problems.

Please, drop me a note if you’ve encountered problems with accessing the fwtools.loskot.net server.

Spread the FWTools!

Update 2007-09-14 06:50:12 UTC

Added download statistics - http://loskot.net/stats_fwtools.php

Update 2007-09-07 20:44:47 UTC

I think it may be helpful if users know geographical location of the fwtools.loskot.net mirror:

• IP: 67.19.42.2
• City: Dallas Texas
• Country: United States
• Time Zone: CST

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.

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.

Yesterday, I installed Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition and Microsoft Platform SDK. I followed manual installation instructions to install Visial C++ 2005. Second, I installed Platform SDK as described here. I also had to take a few additional steps, not explained in the guidelines above. Simply, official guidelines seems to be incomplete. So, if you are going to build GDAL with Visual C++ 2005, please follow instructions from the [Gdal-dev] Building with Visual C++ 2005 Express thread on the gdal-dev list. I also wrote short HOWTO as comment #3 to bug report #1170 recently submitted to GDAL bugzilla.

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…I’m going to talk big about myself a little…
Yesterday, Paul Ramsey from Refractions Research gave me developer privileges to the official GEOS CVS repository. So, now I think I can say Hello! to the GEOS Development Team :-). After about two months of hacking, patching and contributing to GEOS project I’ve became a bit more privileged developer. This is a big honour for me to join the GEOS Team. I’m really happy!

I’d like to thank Sandro Santilli for his trust and advocacy. I’m very glad that I met Sandro on my way of life. I’d like to send big thanks to Frank Warmerdam, Howard Butler and Norman Vine for promoting my simple person to GEOS project and to the World of Open Source GIS generally.

The main roles I’m going to play in the GEOS project are: bug tracking and fixing, refactoring, introducing new techniques and tools to improve GEOS stability as well as supporting GEOS users. I’m also working on port of GEOS library for Windows CE operating system (current state: compilable).