Robert Szczepanek initiated a new public mailing list that has just been added to the stack at the OSGeo mailing lists server – graphics@lists.osgeo.org:
Let’s create common, resuable graphical elements for many OSGeo projects.
We focus our discussion on design aspects of graphics – symbols, icons and signs.
Robert has been working on graphics and icons for GIS for long time.
The OSGeo Foundation Chief Returning Officer (CRO) has posted new nominations to OSGeo Charter Members.
Personally, I’m glad to see Robert Szczepanek from Poland listed among other noble members of OSGeo Community. Robert has played an important & leading role in FOSS and FOSS4G advocacy, education and development in our Polish yard for long time:
It’s a good news for OSGeo Community in Poland.
In one of presentations from this year’s edition of BoostCon, I found a small track of Quantum GIS project. This is Bill Hoffman‘s presentation titled A CMake-Based Software Process for Development and Integration Testing (PDF) and the track is citation taken from Martin Dobias’ blog post Having fun with CMake:
I was quite surprised with the speed of building Quantum GIS codebase in comparison to Autotools.
All presentations from the BoostCon’09 are available to download including Barend‘s slides and article with about Generic Geometry Library. There are much more interesting materials from the conference available and as another one somehow related to geospatial works, I’d like to point Graphics Programming Workshop about programming with Adobe’s Graphics Interface Library which is a part of Boost C++ Libraries (>= 1.35.0). There are both, slides and source codes, available to download.
Linux.com published an interesting article – a tutorial – about famous components of Free and Open Source Software stack for Web Mapping. Justin Palk, the author, gives a very accessible introduction to building Web Mapping solution using GeoServer, PostGIS and OpenLayers. I think it’s a great writing for anyone who takes first steps in Web Mapping with FOSS4G.
Serving and styling maps with GeoServer by Justin Palk on September 24, 2008
libgeotiff 1.2.5 has been released.
Libgeotiff is an open source library normally hosted on top of libtiff for reading, and writing GeoTIFF information tags.
As officially announced, the new version includes a few bug fixes and improvements, coordinate systems dictionaries have been updated to EPSG 6.17 dataset.
There is also a new feature called Simple Tags Interface to make it easier to use libgeotiff to process geotiff tags in other file format. This new interface is used in libLAS to support LAS files georeferencing.
Packages of libgeotiff 1.2.5 are hosted on OSGeo Download server:
http://download.osgeo.org/geotiff/libgeotiff/
A week ago, Frank Warmerdam proposed to make GeoTIFF a subproject of OSGeo MetaCRS project, because of a few reasons:
Motion: Libgeotiff as a MetaCRS sub-project was not waiting long and eventually has gained full acceptance from Project Steering Committee of MetaCRS, means passed.
Since July 28, 2008 GeoTIFF project is now a part of MetaCRS initiative lead by OSGeo community.
A few days ago, I published my second HOWTO dedicated to Quantum GIS developers using Visual C++ under Windows. The whole series is devoted to using Visual C++ 2005 compiler to build QT library and to start QGIS development on Widows.
Similarly to the first one, the second tutorial has been also published on the QGIS Wiki, titled as Building Quantum GIS with Visual C++ 2005.
Yesterday, I started small series of articles dedicated for Quantum GIS developers which want to work on Windows and use Visual C++ 2005 IDE to develop QGIS. The first article is devoted to QT compilation. Next, I’ll try to explain process of building Quantum GIS using VC++ 2005.