From olivier.ertz at heig-vd.ch Thu Feb 2 15:10:22 2012 From: olivier.ertz at heig-vd.ch (Olivier ERTZ) Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:10:22 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] OGRS2012 :: CALL FOR PAPERS - Open Source Geospatial Research and Education Symposium Message-ID: <4F2A994E.2010007@heig-vd.ch> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- OGRS2012 :: CALL FOR PAPERS Open Source Geospatial Research and Education Symposium October 24 – 26, 2012 in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland Hosted by School of Business and Engineering Vaud (HEIG-VD) Website: http://www.ogrs2012.org Contact: cfp at ogrs2012.org Notice, PDF version of this call is available here : http://cfp.ogrs2012.org. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- (our apologies for cross-postings) Dear colleagues, The Open Source Geospatial Research and Education Symposium (OGRS) is a meeting dedicated to exchanging ideas on development and use of open source geospatial software in both research and education. Motivated by the inaugural symposium in Nantes, France, OGRS2012 will be held from October 24 – 26, 2012 in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland. The symposium is hosted and organized by the School of Business and Engineering Vaud (HEIG-VD), in partnership with EPFL Lausanne, University of Lausanne, University of Geneva, which are all academic institutions in Western Switzerland, and the Institute for Research on Urban Sciences and Techniques in France. The main goals are: - to build a panel of new scientific research and education practices using and contributing to open source initiatives in the geospatial fields; - to discuss a framework and highlight a rationale about geospatial open source technology usage in research and education activities; - to provide an innovation platform to network and develop ideas for future collaborative work between academia – from research to education – and other actors of the field (associations, foundations, local authorities, industry etc.). For more details, visit the overview page on the website. Keynote speakers : - Luc Anselin, Director, Regents' Professor and Walter Isard Chair at School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Director at GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, Arizona State University; - Gérard Hégron, Scientific Director in charge of sustainable city at IFSTTAR (French Institute of Science and Technology for Transport, Planning and Networks); - Helena Mitasova, Associate Professor at Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University; - Robert Weibel, Professor of Geographical Information Science at Department of Geography, University of Zürich. Submission : The symposium will integrate several opportunities for presenting : oral presentations, workshops, posters and discussion groups. To participate in any of these opportunities, authors are invited to submit an extended abstract (1000 to 1500 words, references and keywords excluded) through the conference website. The official language is English. The international scientific advisory board will review and select abstracts for inclusion in the symposium and publication in the symposium proceedings. A subset of contributions will be invited to submit full papers for possible publication in a special issue of the Journal of Spatial Information Sciences (JOSIS), pending a peer review of full papers. For more details on how to submit a contribution, please visit the call for papers page on the website : http://cfp.ogrs2012.org. Important dates : - submission deadline for abstracts is May 28, 2012. - authors will be notified by June 30, 2012 on program inclusion and selection for JOSIS submission - deadline to submit full papers is September 30, 2012. We would appreciate if you could kindly distribute this call to other interested parties of your acquaintance. Best regards, OGRS2012 program committee From neteler at osgeo.org Mon Feb 20 22:38:36 2012 From: neteler at osgeo.org (Markus Neteler) Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:38:36 +0100 Subject: [Freegis-list] GRASS GIS 6.4.2 released Message-ID: GRASS GIS 6.4.2 released 19 February 2012 http://grass.osgeo.org We are pleased to announce the release of a new stable version of GRASS GIS. This release fixes bugs discovered in version 6.4.1 of the program and adds a number of new features. This release includes over 760 updates to the source code since 6.4.1. As a stable release series, the 6.4 line will enjoy long-term support and incremental enhancements while preserving backwards-compatibility with the entire GRASS 6 line. The new wxPython graphical user interface (wxGUI) has been updated with many new features and tools. Python is now a fully supported scripting language, including an updated Python toolkit to simplify the authoring of personal scripts, support for NumPy based array calculations, and a Python application interface for the GRASS C libraries. Additionally, MS-Windows support continues to mature. GRASS 6.4.2 debuts ten new modules, a new GUI cartographic composer tool, a new GUI object-oriented modeling environment, and improved infrastructure for installing community supplied add-on modules. Read the full story at http://grass.osgeo.org/announces/announce_grass642.html About GRASS GIS The Geographic Resources Analysis Support System, commonly referred to as GRASS, is an Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS) and geospatial analysis toolkit. For nearly three decades, GRASS has provided powerful raster, vector, and geospatial processing engines in a single integrated software suite. GRASS includes tools for spatial modeling of raster and vector data, visualization, the management and analysis of geospatial information, and the processing of satellite and aerial imagery. It also provides the capability to produce sophisticated presentation graphics and publication-quality hardcopy maps. GRASS has now been translated into twenty languages and supports an extensive array of data formats. It is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). GRASS differs from many other GIS software packages used in the academic and professional worlds in that it is developed and distributed by users for users, mostly on a volunteer basis. Its code and spatial processing algorithms are open and transparent, and the software is distributed free of charge. The source code is also freely available, allowing for immediate customization, examination of the underlying algorithms, the addition of new features, and faster identification and patching of bugs.