From freegis at intevation.de Sat Apr 5 21:59:42 2008 From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de) Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 21:59:42 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-updates] GeoNetwork Message-ID: <20080405195942.7A49D60016E@lists.intevation.de> Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: GeoNetwork Updated by: jan (2008-04-05 21:54:53) Homepage: http://geonetwork-opensource.org/ Version: 2.2 ChangeLog: ---------- Upgrades from version 2.1 to 2.2. Description: ------------ GeoNetwork is a web based Geographic Metadata Catalog System developed by FAO-UN and WFP-UN. The system implements the ISO 19115 Geographic Metadata and ISO 23950 (Z39.50) standards. Best regards Your FreeGIS Core Team. From freegis at intevation.de Thu Apr 17 16:21:41 2008 From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de) Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:21:41 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-updates] Geoserver Message-ID: <20080417142141.0A50A628FE0@lists.intevation.de> Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: Geoserver Updated by: bjoern (2008-04-10 09:16:14) Homepage: http://geoserver.org Version: 1.6.3 ChangeLog: ---------- New Version. Previous was 1.6.1. Minor feature enhancements and major bugfixes. New Features: * Watermarking * Limiting the SRS listing Description: ------------ The GeoServer project is a full transactional Java (J2EE) implementation of the OpenGIS Consortiums Web Feature Server (WFS) specification. Additionally a OGC Web Map Server (WMS) and support for WCS (Web Coverage Service) and WMS Raster is realised. Best regards Your FreeGIS Core Team. From freegis at intevation.de Thu Apr 17 17:11:13 2008 From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de) Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:11:13 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-updates] InteProxy Message-ID: <20080417151113.8C06763675F@lists.intevation.de> Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: InteProxy Updated by: jan (2008-04-17 16:22:51) Homepage: http://inteproxy.wald.intevation.org Version: 0.3.1 ChangeLog: ---------- Updates from 0.3.0 to 0.3.1. This is a bug-fix release, important for the use scenario where InteProxy acts like a web-proxy. Description: ------------ InteProxy is a tool that adds secure transmission via SSL a well as user authentication to those OWS-based applications that that do not support these security features. Best regards Your FreeGIS Core Team. From freegis at intevation.de Tue Apr 29 21:40:43 2008 From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de) Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:40:43 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-updates] TF.NET Message-ID: <20080429194043.5A87A600D60@lists.intevation.de> Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: TF.NET Updated by: jan (2008-04-29 21:20:32) Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/tf-net/ Version: 1.0.8 ChangeLog: ---------- New entry at FreeGIS. Description: ------------ TF.NET (Topology Framework .NET) represents a topology manipulation API capable of handling managed objects representation of topological entities based on other popular APIs, exposing it's JTS-based common topology manipulation core to them. Best regards Your FreeGIS Core Team. From freegis at intevation.de Mon May 5 09:06:27 2008 From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de) Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 09:06:27 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-updates] Geographic Resources Analysis Support System Message-ID: <20080505070627.12F6F600D5E@lists.intevation.de> Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: Geographic Resources Analysis Support System Updated by: markus (2008-05-01 01:30:43) Homepage: http://grass.osgeo.org/ Version: Stable: 6.2.3;Preview: 6.3.0;Dev:7.0.svn ChangeLog: ---------- GRASS 6.3.0 was released as technology preview with new features since GRASS 6.2.3 and new native MS-Windows support. It comes with more than 3400 minor and important fixes. Description: ------------ GRASS GIS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) is a Free Software Geographical Information System (GIS) with raster, topological vector, image processing, volume voxel management/visualization, 2D/3D vector engine with vector network analysis and graphics production functionality that operates on various platforms through shell and a graphical user interface.

Books about GRASS:
Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach by Markus Neteler and Helena Mitasova (new: 2007) Best regards Your FreeGIS Core Team. From freegis at intevation.de Mon May 19 23:11:14 2008 From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de) Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 23:11:14 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-updates] OpenLayers Message-ID: <20080519211114.61168600D46@lists.intevation.de> Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: OpenLayers Updated by: bjoern (2008-05-15 12:21:13) Homepage: http://openlayers.org/ Version: 2.6 ChangeLog: ---------- New Version. Previous was 2.5. Major feature enhancements. * Client side reprojection * Smooth commercial layer panning * KML styling support and pretty, auto-sizing popups * Improved styling support! Description: ------------ OpenLayers is a JavaScript tool for adding dynamic maps in any web page. It can display map tiles and markers loaded from any source. Best regards Your FreeGIS Core Team. From freegis at intevation.de Mon May 19 23:12:56 2008 From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de) Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 23:12:56 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-updates] PyOGCLib Message-ID: <20080519211256.1F489600D46@lists.intevation.de> Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: PyOGCLib Updated by: bjoern (2008-05-15 12:26:15) Homepage: http://pyogclib.sourceforge.net/ Version: 0.1 ChangeLog: ---------- This project is no longer active. Successor is OWSLib. Description: ------------ PyOGCLib aims to develop and distribute a Python based library for the implementation of the OpenGIS specifications, notably Web Map Server (WMS) and Web Feature Server (WFS). Best regards Your FreeGIS Core Team. From freegis at intevation.de Mon May 19 23:16:51 2008 From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de) Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 23:16:51 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-updates] OWSLib Message-ID: <20080519211651.76655600D70@lists.intevation.de> Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: OWSLib Updated by: bjoern (2008-05-15 12:28:25) Homepage: http://trac.gispython.org/projects/PCL/wiki/OwsLib Version: 0.3 ChangeLog: ---------- New entry at FreeGIS. Description: ------------ OGC Web Service utility library ------------------------------- Python-Package for working with OGC map, feature, and coverage services. OWSLib provides a common API for accessing service metadata and wrappers for GetCapabilities, GetMap, and GetFeature requests. Best regards Your FreeGIS Core Team. From freegis at intevation.de Mon May 19 23:17:36 2008 From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de) Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 23:17:36 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-updates] PostGIS Message-ID: <20080519211736.DD283600D74@lists.intevation.de> Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: PostGIS Updated by: bjoern (2008-05-15 12:47:57) Homepage: http://postgis.refractions.net/ Version: 1.3.3 ChangeLog: ---------- New Version. Previous was 1.3.2. Bug fix release and some minor feature enhancements. * Improvements in the shp2pgsql/pgsql2shp utilities o Better windows support o DBF-only loading support o Support for OS/X 10.5 o Output for Date types in DBF * New function ST_SimplifyPreserveTopology( geometry, float8) to simplify polygons without creating invalid geometry * KML support updates * SVG support updates Description: ------------ PostGIS adds support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL object-relational database. In effect, PostGIS "spatially enables" the PostgreSQL server, allowing it to be used as a backend for GIS.

PostGIS/PostgreSQL includes the following functionality:

Best regards Your FreeGIS Core Team. From freegis at intevation.de Mon May 19 23:19:03 2008 From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de) Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 23:19:03 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-updates] mapnik Message-ID: <20080519211903.E17C0600D76@lists.intevation.de> Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: mapnik Updated by: bjoern (2008-05-15 12:59:17) Homepage: http://mapnik.org Version: 0.5.1 ChangeLog: ---------- New Version. Minor bugfix release. 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 Mon May 19 23:20:50 2008 From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de) Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 23:20:50 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-updates] Shapely Message-ID: <20080519212050.25D79600D71@lists.intevation.de> Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: Shapely Updated by: bjoern (2008-05-15 12:40:52) Homepage: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Shapely/ Version: 1.0.4 ChangeLog: ---------- New Version. Previous was 1.0.1. Bug fix release and a simple GEOS geometry cache to improve performance when wrapping coordinate data stored outside of Shapely. Description: ------------ Shapely is a Python package for programming with geospatial geometries. It is based on GEOS. Shapely is ignorant about coordinate and reference systems. Projection responsibility is left to specific applications. Best regards Your FreeGIS Core Team. From freegis at intevation.de Mon May 19 23:24:36 2008 From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de) Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 23:24:36 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-updates] GeoWebCache Message-ID: <20080519212436.1A3F9600D74@lists.intevation.de> Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: GeoWebCache Updated by: bjoern (2008-05-15 12:14:28) Homepage: http://geowebcache.org Version: 0.8.1 ChangeLog: ---------- New Version. Previous was 0.6. Major feature enhancements and Bug Fixes * New Architecture * KML support * Automatic Configuration Description: ------------ GeoWebCache is a WMS tile cache, meaning it acts as a proxy between the client and the WMS server and stores the image, implemented as a Java HttpServlet. It does automatic matching to the best available tile and supports JCS and file backends. Best regards Your FreeGIS Core Team. From freegis at intevation.de Mon May 19 23:35:57 2008 From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de) Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 23:35:57 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-updates] Quantum GIS Message-ID: <20080519213557.43C9A600D64@lists.intevation.de> Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: Quantum GIS Updated by: jan (2008-05-19 23:32:09) Homepage: http://qgis.org/ Version: 0.9.1 ChangeLog: ---------- Updates from 0.9.1 to 0.10.0. Description: ------------ Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Geographic Information System (GIS) that runs on various platforms. QGIS supports vector, raster, and database formats. It supports many common spatial data formats. QGIS supports plugins to do things like display tracks from your GPS. Best regards Your FreeGIS Core Team. From freegis at intevation.de Mon May 19 23:45:33 2008 From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de) Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 23:45:33 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-updates] The Generic Mapping Tools Message-ID: <20080519214533.48076600D65@lists.intevation.de> Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: The Generic Mapping Tools Updated by: jan (2008-05-19 23:43:28) Homepage: http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/ Version: 4.3.1 ChangeLog: ---------- Updates from 4.2.1 to 4.3.1. 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 Sun May 25 21:04:55 2008 From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de) Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 21:04:55 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-updates] Geoserver Message-ID: <20080525190455.994F060016C@lists.intevation.de> Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: Geoserver Updated by: bjoern (2008-05-22 11:30:13) Homepage: http://geoserver.org Version: 1.6.4 ChangeLog: ---------- New Version. Previous was 1.6.3. Major bugfix release. Description: ------------ The GeoServer project is a full transactional Java (J2EE) implementation of the OpenGIS Consortiums Web Feature Server (WFS) specification. Additionally a OGC Web Map Server (WMS) and support for WCS (Web Coverage Service) and WMS Raster is realised. Best regards Your FreeGIS Core Team. From freegis at intevation.de Sun Jun 1 00:34:59 2008 From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de) Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 00:34:59 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-updates] Hobutools Message-ID: <20080531223459.4AA2560016C@lists.intevation.de> Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: Hobutools Updated by: jan (2008-05-25 21:23:28) Homepage: http://hobu.biz/software/hobutools/index_html Version: 1.0.3 ChangeLog: ---------- The homepage and project vanished without notice. If you find a new homepage or remains of the code, please let the FreeGIS team know. Description: ------------ Hobutools is a binary distribution of useful GIS Python packages combined into a single Windows installer. Attention: The project vanished. If you know about a new homepage or have the old code, please let the FreeGIS team know. Best regards Your FreeGIS Core Team. From freegis at intevation.de Mon Jun 23 20:41:52 2008 From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de) Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:41:52 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-updates] JTS Topology Suite Message-ID: <20080623184152.5F6C6600B8E@lists.intevation.de> Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: JTS Topology Suite Updated by: bjoern (2008-06-22 14:08:48) Homepage: http://www.vividsolutions.com/jts/jtshome.htm Version: 1.9 ChangeLog: ---------- New Version. Previous was 1.8. Major feature enhancements. JTS 1.9 has been released on SourceForge ( https://sourceforge.net/projects/jts-topo-suite/ ) Description: ------------ A Java API of spatial predicates and functions. The goal is to provide a complete, consistent, robust implementation of fundamental 2D spatial algorithms. It should conform to the Simple Features Specification for SQL. Best regards Your FreeGIS Core Team. From freegis at intevation.de Tue Jun 24 09:18:46 2008 From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de) Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:18:46 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-updates] PyGarmin Message-ID: <20080624071846.E998E600BB8@lists.intevation.de> Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: PyGarmin Updated by: bernhard (2008-06-24 09:17:19) Homepage: http://pygarmin.org/ Version: 0.7 ChangeLog: ---------- New homepage. (The 0.7 release can still be acquired from http://sourceforge.net/projects/pygarmin/) Description: ------------ PyGarmin is a set of Python classes which implement the protocol used by Garmin GPS receivers to talk to each other and to other machines. It is based on the official protocol specification. Best regards Your FreeGIS Core Team. From freegis at intevation.de Tue Jun 24 09:27:07 2008 From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de) Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:27:07 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-updates] GeoJSON Python Library Message-ID: <20080624072707.B9560600BB8@lists.intevation.de> Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: GeoJSON Python Library Updated by: bernhard (2008-06-24 09:24:32) Homepage: http://trac.gispython.org/projects/PCL/wiki/GeoJSON Version: 1.0a4 ChangeLog: ---------- New. Description: ------------ A reference implementation of the PythonGeoInterface and the GeoJSON draft at http://geojson.org. Best regards Your FreeGIS Core Team. From freegis at intevation.de Tue Jun 24 09:30:10 2008 From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de) Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:30:10 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-updates] GeoJSON Python Library Message-ID: <20080624073010.7DA0B600BB8@lists.intevation.de> Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: GeoJSON Python Library Updated by: bernhard (2008-06-24 09:29:20) Homepage: http://trac.gispython.org/projects/PCL/wiki/GeoJSON Version: 1.0a4 ChangeLog: ---------- Connected to GeoJSON. Description: ------------ A reference implementation of the PythonGeoInterface and the GeoJSON draft at http://geojson.org. Best regards Your FreeGIS Core Team. From freegis at intevation.de Tue Jun 24 09:50:39 2008 From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de) Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:50:39 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-updates] Merkaartor Message-ID: <20080624075039.6162A600BBB@lists.intevation.de> Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: Merkaartor Updated by: bernhard (2008-06-24 09:41:02) Homepage: http://www.irule.be/bvh/c++/merkaartor/ Version: 0.010 (24 Mar 2008) ChangeLog: ---------- New entry at FreeGIS. Description: ------------ Merkaartor is (will be) a mapping program, especially for OpenStreetMap purposes. Best regards Your FreeGIS Core Team.