PostGIS/PostgreSQL includes the following functionality:
Cartographic Objects for Zope, or ZCO, is the first application using the Python Cartographic Library. ZCO compares to ZMapServer as the PCL compares to MapServer's mapscript module; more powerful, more flexible, and better suited to developing production mapping services and cartographic workflows. Best regards Your FreeGIS Core Team. From freegis at intevation.de Wed May 10 21:55:50 2006 From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de) Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 21:55:50 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-updates] OGR Message-ID: <20060510195550.66A3C1005DB@lists.intevation.de> Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: OGR Updated by: warmerda (2006-05-04 19:36:11) Homepage: http://www.gdal.org/ogr Version: 1.3.2 ChangeLog: ---------- Updated to 1.3.2. Description: ------------ The OGR Simple Features Library is a C++ open source library (and commandline tools) providing read (and sometimes write) access to a variety of vector file formats including ESRI Shapefiles, and Mapinfo mid/mif and TAB formats. Best regards Your FreeGIS Core Team. From freegis at intevation.de Wed May 10 21:56:25 2006 From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de) Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 21:56:25 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-updates] Geospatial Data Abstraction Library Message-ID: <20060510195625.AC1601005DB@lists.intevation.de> Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: Geospatial Data Abstraction Library Updated by: warmerda (2006-05-04 19:35:08) Homepage: http://www.gdal.org Version: 1.3.2 ChangeLog: ---------- Updated to GDAL 1.3.2. Description: ------------ GDAL is a translator library for raster geospatial data formats. As a library, it presents a single abstract data model to the calling application for all supported formats. Best regards Your FreeGIS Core Team. From freegis at intevation.de Wed May 10 22:01:56 2006 From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de) Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 22:01:56 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-updates] GPS Manager Message-ID: <20060510200156.D64961005DB@lists.intevation.de> Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: GPS Manager Updated by: jan (2006-05-10 22:00:23) Homepage: http://www.ncc.up.pt/gpsman/ Version: 6.3 ChangeLog: ---------- Update from 6.2.1 to 6.3. Quite a number of improvements have been added. Description: ------------ GPS Manager (GPSMan) is a graphical manager of GPS data that makes possible the preparation, inspection and edition of GPS data in a friendly environment. GPSMan supports communication with both Garmin and Lowrance receivers and real-time support for any receiver using NMEA-0183. GPSMan can also be used in command-line mode. Best regards Your FreeGIS Core Team. From freegis at intevation.de Wed May 10 22:14:37 2006 From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de) Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 22:14:37 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-updates] GPS Console Data Manager Message-ID: <20060510201437.A3E921005DB@lists.intevation.de> Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: GPS Console Data Manager Updated by: jan (2006-05-10 22:11:19) Homepage: http://gps-console.sourceforge.net/ Version: - ChangeLog: ---------- Added not that this project vanished from sourforge site with not comment. Description: ------------ Attention: This project vanished from the SourceForge site without any further notice. GPS Console is a program for retrieving, storing and manipulating GPS and other coordinate data in conjunction with GIS and Remote Sensing. It is designed for geologists, but easy enough to use that anyone will be able to enjoy it. Best regards Your FreeGIS Core Team. From freegis at intevation.de Wed May 10 22:37:18 2006 From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de) Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 22:37:18 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-updates] DC Maintenance Management System Message-ID: <20060510203718.3AA451005DB@lists.intevation.de> Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: DC Maintenance Management System Updated by: jan (2006-05-10 22:35:33) Homepage: http://dcmms.sourceforge.net/ Version: 1.1.1 ChangeLog: ---------- Updates from 1.1.0 to 1.1.1. This is a pure bug-fix and maintenance release. Description: ------------ A web-based maintenance management system for water and wastewater networks. Allows to store customer complaints and issue workorder sheets. Rather than using street names, maps and landmarks are used for navigation. Best regards Your FreeGIS Core Team. From freegis at intevation.de Wed May 10 23:07:21 2006 From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de) Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 23:07:21 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-updates] Portfolio Explorer Message-ID: <20060510210721.07AAE1005DB@lists.intevation.de> Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: Portfolio Explorer Updated by: jan (2006-05-10 23:00:33) Homepage: http://www.extendthereach.com/products/OSGeocoder.srct Version: 4.0.4.0 ChangeLog: ---------- New entry at FreeGIS. Description: ------------ This tool is a data and country independent geocoding engine. Best regards Your FreeGIS Core Team. From freegis at intevation.de Wed May 17 16:15:19 2006 From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de) Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 16:15:19 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-updates] Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Shoreline Database Message-ID: <20060517141519.2763A1005A3@lists.intevation.de> Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Shoreline Database Updated by: jan (2006-05-17 16:09:49) Homepage: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/gshhs.html Version: 1.3 ChangeLog: ---------- Updates from 1.2 to 1.3. Description: ------------ GSHHS is a high-resolution shoreline data set amalgamated from two data bases in the public domain. The data have undergone extensive processing and are free of internal inconsistencies such as erratic points and crossing segments. The shorelines are constructed entirely from hierarchically arranged closed polygons. The data can be used to simplify data searches and data selections, or to study the statistical characteristics of shorelines and land-masses. It comes with access software and routines to facilitate decimation based on a standard line-reduction algorithm. Best regards Your FreeGIS Core Team. From freegis at intevation.de Wed May 17 16:16:08 2006 From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de) Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 16:16:08 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-updates] The Generic Mapping Tools Message-ID: <20060517141608.4E7A71005A3@lists.intevation.de> Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: The Generic Mapping Tools Updated by: jan (2006-05-17 16:14:29) Homepage: http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/ Version: Stable: 3.4.6 and 4.1.2 ChangeLog: ---------- Updates 4.1.1 to 4.1.2. Description: ------------ GMT is a collection of about 60 UNIX tools that allow users to manipulate (x,y) and (x,y,z) data sets (including filtering, trend fitting, gridding, projecting, etc.) and produce Encapsulated PostScript File (EPS) illustrations ranging from simple x-y plots through contour maps to artificially illuminated surfaces and 3-D perspective views in black and white, gray tone, hachure patterns, and 24-bit color. GMT supports 30 common map projections plus linear, log and power scaling, and comes with support data such as coastlines, rivers, and political boundaries. Best regards Your FreeGIS Core Team. From freegis at intevation.de Thu May 18 23:17:23 2006 From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de) Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 23:17:23 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-updates] SharpMap Message-ID: <20060518211723.A3E121006A4@lists.intevation.de> Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: SharpMap Updated by: jan (2006-05-18 23:15:00) Homepage: http://sharpmap.iter.dk Version: 0.9 RC1 ChangeLog: ---------- Updates from 0.9 beta1 to 0.9 RC1. Changes include bugfixes and improvements of database support, projection support, documentation. Description: ------------ SharpMap is a simple-to-use map renderer that renders GIS vector data for use in web and desktop applications. The engine is written in C# and based on the .NET 2.0 beta2 framework. Best regards Your FreeGIS Core Team. From freegis at intevation.de Wed May 24 16:49:53 2006 From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de) Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 16:49:53 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-updates] mapnik Message-ID: <20060524144953.457F51006A6@lists.intevation.de> Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: mapnik Updated by: jan (2006-05-24 16:47:19) Homepage: http://mapnik.org Version: 0.3.0 ChangeLog: ---------- License changes from GNU GPL to GNU LGPL. Updates from 0.2.5a to 0.3.0. Changes include introduction of WMS support, Win32 Support, Many fixes. Description: ------------ Mapnik is a C++/Python toolkit for developing GIS applications. At the core is a C++ shared library providing algorithms/patterns for spatial data access and visualization. Best regards Your FreeGIS Core Team. From freegis at intevation.de Thu May 25 01:54:06 2006 From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de) Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 01:54:06 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-updates] phpPgGIS Message-ID: <20060524235406.51B4D1005D4@lists.intevation.de> Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: phpPgGIS Updated by: jan (2006-05-25 01:45:14) Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/phppggis/ Version: 4.0.1-2 ChangeLog: ---------- New entry at FreeGIS. Description: ------------ phpPgGIS is a PHP Web system to manage PostgreSQL/PostGIS. It was developed based on phpPgAdmin and MapServer. Best regards Your FreeGIS Core Team. From freegis at intevation.de Thu Jun 1 12:02:52 2006 From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de) Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 12:02:52 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-updates] gvSIG Message-ID: <20060601100252.954701006AB@lists.intevation.de> Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: gvSIG Updated by: jan (2006-06-01 12:01:53) Homepage: http://www.gvsig.gva.es Version: Stable: 0.6; Development: 1.0-alpha ChangeLog: ---------- Added Development version 1.0-alpha. The development version comes with numerous new features and improvements. Description: ------------ gvSIG is a tool for handling geographical information. It has a friendly interface, is capable to access several (raster and vector) formats. It will integrate in a single view both local and remote data through WFS, WMS and WCS. Best regards Your FreeGIS Core Team. From freegis at intevation.de Thu Jun 1 13:01:19 2006 From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de) Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 13:01:19 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-updates] AV PostGIS Connection Extension Message-ID: <20060601110119.B3B4D1005CC@lists.intevation.de> Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: AV PostGIS Connection Extension Updated by: jan (2006-06-01 12:56:16) Homepage: http://avpgcon.sourceforge.net Version: 1.12.2 ChangeLog: ---------- New entry at FreeGIS. Description: ------------ An ArcView 3.x extension for upload/download to/from PostGIS tables. Supports PostGIS theme queries. Best regards Your FreeGIS Core Team. From freegis at intevation.de Thu Jun 1 15:08:13 2006 From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de) Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 15:08:13 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-updates] rwgps Message-ID: <20060601130813.EB3741005D1@lists.intevation.de> Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: rwgps Updated by: jan (2006-06-01 15:07:44) Homepage: http://5b4az.mattsnetwork.co.uk/pages/misc.html Version: 0.6 ChangeLog: ---------- New homepage. Previous was http://www.qsl.net/5b4az/pages/misc.html Description: ------------ A serial-port driver/interface application for Rockwells Microtracker LP(tm) GPS Receiver module. rwgps can read some of the "Messages" transmitted by Microtracker LP and display them in a ncurses screen. It can also send some command Messages to the receiver to set parameters or initialize the receiver. Best regards Your FreeGIS Core Team. From freegis at intevation.de Thu Jun 1 15:08:23 2006 From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de) Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 15:08:23 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-updates] wxapt Message-ID: <20060601130823.B8FAA1006AE@lists.intevation.de> Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: wxapt Updated by: jan (2006-06-01 15:06:26) Homepage: http://5b4az.mattsnetwork.co.uk/pages/apt.html Version: 1.2 ChangeLog: ---------- New Homepage. Previous was http://www.qsl.net/5b4az/pages/apt.html. Description: ------------ This is an APT satellite weather image decoder for Linux. It can decode APT images direct from the receivers audio o/p via the computers soundcard or from a file of recorded APT signal samples. Currently wxapt supports the NOAA-type and Meteor-type APT formats. wxapt automatically sets up the sound card and the mixers recording/capture volume to the correct level and then determines the type of satellite form the signature of its sync pulse train. wxapt is a simple non-interactive command line tool for the console and was designed to be efficient and suitable for running on low power machines using simpler processors like the Intel StrongArm and similar. For this reason wxapt uses only integer arithmetic for all processing and does not require linking to math libraries for calculations.
There is also a GTK+-based user interface available which is called xwxapt. Best regards Your FreeGIS Core Team. From freegis at intevation.de Thu Jun 1 15:24:44 2006 From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de) Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 15:24:44 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-updates] Survex Message-ID: <20060601132444.5D6A41005CF@lists.intevation.de> Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: Survex Updated by: jan (2006-06-01 15:24:08) Homepage: http://www.survex.com/ Version: Stable: 1.0.39; Development: 1.1.7 ChangeLog: ---------- Updated version from 0.99 pre 7 to Stable: 1.0.39; Development: 1.1.7 There have been many improvements meanwhile. Description: ------------ Survex is very powerful cave survey software. It is still actively developing into a complete cave visualisation package. It has a nice frontend with windows and menus (aven), but does not offer a totally integrated environment. Best regards Your FreeGIS Core Team. From freegis at intevation.de Tue Jun 6 13:24:56 2006 From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de) Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 13:24:56 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-updates] KIDS Message-ID: <20060606112456.269AB1005AC@lists.intevation.de> Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: KIDS Updated by: jan (2006-06-06 13:14:55) Homepage: http://kids.fao.org Version: 2.4 ChangeLog: ---------- New entry at FreeGIS. Description: ------------ KIDS (Key Indicator Data System) is a software framework that provides the ability to implement thematic information systems that collect, reference, visualize, exchange and disseminate statistical, survey and indicator data. Visualization is possible through tables, mapping, raster images and graphs. Basic GIS overlay and legend editing functions are available for non-GIS users. Best regards Your FreeGIS Core Team. From freegis at intevation.de Tue Jun 6 15:50:20 2006 From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de) Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 15:50:20 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-updates] GISAR Message-ID: <20060606135020.12E931005AC@lists.intevation.de> Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: GISAR Updated by: jan (2006-06-06 15:43:57) Homepage: http://gisar.sourceforge.net/ENG/Index.htm Version: Release_050306 ChangeLog: ---------- This project completely changed its contents and therefore the main description has been exchanged. Also a there is a new version. Description: ------------ This is a map internet web service based on a huge raster maps or satellite images for tracking and monitoring the mobile objects (cars etc) using GPS. NOTE: FreeGIS was informed on March 7th 2003 by the author that he has withdrawn the Free Software license and that GISAR is now proprietary Software. At least release Release_300302 GISAR was under GNU GPL. In 2006 the development as Free Software has been started again, but with a different topic and contents. Best regards Your FreeGIS Core Team. From freegis at intevation.de Thu Jun 15 11:46:19 2006 From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de) Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 11:46:19 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-updates] GeoTypes Message-ID: <20060615094619.475FB1005B8@lists.intevation.de> Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: GeoTypes Updated by: jan (2006-06-15 11:45:44) Homepage: http://initd.org/tracker/psycopg/wiki/GeoTypes Version: 0.6.0 ChangeLog: ---------- Updates from 0.4.0 to 0.6.0. New homepage (previous was http://people.initd.org/rjt/). Description: ------------ GeoTypes is a python library that implements both the OpenGIS/Postgis and standard Postgresql geometry types, it integrates with the psycopg python/Postgresql interface. Best regards Your FreeGIS Core Team. From freegis at intevation.de Thu Jun 15 12:42:13 2006 From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de) Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 12:42:13 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-updates] HostGIS Message-ID: <20060615104213.89B1C1006D8@lists.intevation.de> Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: HostGIS Updated by: jan (2006-06-15 12:39:18) Homepage: http://www.hostgis.com/linux/ Version: ChangeLog: ---------- New entry at FreeGIS. Description: ------------ HostGIS Linux is a GNU/Linux distribution specifically made for handling GIS information. Best regards Your FreeGIS Core Team. From freegis at intevation.de Sun Jun 25 23:02:07 2006 From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de) Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 23:02:07 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-updates] Gen2shp Message-ID: <20060625210207.250ED1005D2@lists.intevation.de> Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: Gen2shp Updated by: jan (2006-06-25 22:59:55) Homepage: http://arcscripts.esri.com/details.asp?dbid=10606 Version: 5.0 ChangeLog: ---------- New homepage. Previous was: http://www.info-scoop.com/free/ Description: ------------ Implemented in Avenue, can be directly incorporated into AV projects. Converts 2D or 3D ASCII data from one or more generate format text files to one or more (multi-part) shapefiles. Available as Extension or just Scripts. Best regards Your FreeGIS Core Team. From freegis at intevation.de Sun Jun 25 23:34:30 2006 From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de) Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 23:34:30 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-updates] Flamingo Message-ID: <20060625213430.80BCD1005D2@lists.intevation.de> Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: Flamingo Updated by: jan (2006-06-25 23:21:06) Homepage: http://www.e-provincies.nl/smartsite2085.htm Version: 1.6c ChangeLog: ---------- New entry at FreeGIS. Description: ------------ Flamingo is a user friendly mapviewer written in Macromedia Flash. Best regards Your FreeGIS Core Team.