From freegis at intevation.de Wed Apr 6 20:32:27 2011
From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de)
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 20:32:27 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Freegis-updates] gen2shp
Message-ID: <20110406183227.1D5E560014E@lists.intevation.de>
Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: gen2shp
Updated by: michael (2011-01-16 13:45:12)
Homepage: http://intevation.de/~jan/gen2shp/gen2shp.html
Version: 0.3.1
ChangeLog:
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Changes License from GNU GPL to GNU GPL v2.
Description:
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gen2shp is a simple C-Progam which can read the format required
by the ESRI ArcInfo generate command.
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Your FreeGIS Core Team.
From freegis at intevation.de Wed Apr 6 20:32:48 2011
From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de)
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 20:32:48 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Freegis-updates] KFlog
Message-ID: <20110406183248.BB3D7600570@lists.intevation.de>
Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: KFlog
Updated by: michael (2011-01-16 15:19:31)
Homepage: http://www.kflog.org/
Version: 2.2.0
ChangeLog:
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new Version, previous was 2.1.0. New features: Support for our updated terrain and ground map files amd OpenAir airspace files * support for the WELT2000 airfield database. Improvements: flight evaluation * logger communication * support for the Cambridge 302 flight recorder. Added URL for screenshots.
Description:
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A soaring-pilot-software for KDE. It is used to display, analyze and evaluate flights logged with a gps-logger.
Different values of a flight-point can be displayed in the map, like altitude, cycling, speed and vario.
There is a maproom-page where you can download Aeronautical,
Ground- and terrain- and additional data for maps.
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Your FreeGIS Core Team.
From freegis at intevation.de Wed Apr 6 20:33:47 2011
From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de)
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 20:33:47 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Freegis-updates] Geographic Translator
Message-ID: <20110406183347.2096B600560@lists.intevation.de>
Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: Geographic Translator
Updated by: michael (2011-01-16 10:44:26)
Homepage: http://earth-info.nga.mil/GandG/geotrans/
Version: 3.0
ChangeLog:
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New version, previous was 2.5. MGRS, UTM and UPS modules updated. * Precision of the imported ellipsoid parameters improved. * Heights can now be included in input coordinate files containing map projection coordinates.
Description:
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GEOTRANS (Geographic Translator) is an application program which allows
users to easily convert geographic coordinates among a wide variety of
coordinate systems, map projections, and datums.
GEOTRANS runs in both Microsoft Windows (95/98/NT) and UNIX Motif environments.
Archives of several version might additionally be found
in
Remotesensing.org's geotrans directory.
Best regards
Your FreeGIS Core Team.
From freegis at intevation.de Wed Apr 6 20:34:00 2011
From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de)
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 20:34:00 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Freegis-updates] R-Project (rgeo)
Message-ID: <20110406183400.4F91C600572@lists.intevation.de>
Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: R-Project (rgeo)
Updated by: michael (2011-01-16 13:32:45)
Homepage: http://cran.at.r-project.org/web/views/Spatial.html
Version: 2011-01-10
ChangeLog:
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Updated URL (was: http://cran.at.r-project.org/src/contrib/Views/Spatial.html). New version, previous was 2.1.1. Several bugfixes.
Description:
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Comprehensive statics package including several
support modules for geospatial analysis, among them
an interface for GRASS.
Best regards
Your FreeGIS Core Team.
From freegis at intevation.de Wed Apr 6 20:34:14 2011
From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de)
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 20:34:14 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Freegis-updates] NCAR Graphics
Message-ID: <20110406183414.80F39600586@lists.intevation.de>
Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: NCAR Graphics
Updated by: michael (2011-01-16 15:26:05)
Homepage: http://ngwww.ucar.edu/
Version: 5.2.1
ChangeLog:
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New version, previous was 4.2.3. New functions: 'wrf_updraft_helicity' - Calculates updraft helicity from WRF model output. Updates to GRIB1/GRIB2 reader: Added support for reading (NCEP) Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR): 1979-2010 files * Updated ability to read WAFS upper-air forecasts in GRIB2 code form.
Description:
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NCAR Graphics Software is comprised of a library containing
Fortran/C utilities for drawing contours, maps, vectors,
streamlines, weather maps, surfaces, histograms, X/Y plots,
annotations, an ANSI/ISO standard version of GKS, a math library containing a collection of 1,2,3-D interpolators and approximators,
applications for displaying, editing, and manipulating graphical output,
map databases, many FORTRAN and C examples.
Best regards
Your FreeGIS Core Team.
From freegis at intevation.de Wed Apr 6 20:34:30 2011
From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de)
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 20:34:30 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Freegis-updates] GpsDrive
Message-ID: <20110406183430.D9DC1600589@lists.intevation.de>
Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: GpsDrive
Updated by: michael (2011-01-16 11:50:21)
Homepage: http://www.gpsdrive.de/
Version: 2.11
ChangeLog:
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New version. Previous was 2.09.
Description:
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Gpsdrive is a car navigation system.
It displays your position provided from your GPS
on a zoomable map.
The maps are autoselected
depending on position, prefered scale and
available resolution and can be downloaded from the Internet.
The program provides information about speed, direction,
bearing, arrival time, actual position and target position. Additional speech output via "festival" is available.
Best regards
Your FreeGIS Core Team.
From freegis at intevation.de Wed Apr 6 20:34:46 2011
From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de)
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 20:34:46 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Freegis-updates] Interactive Mapping of Geoscientific Datasets
Message-ID: <20110406183446.68F2460057C@lists.intevation.de>
Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: Interactive Mapping of Geoscientific Datasets
Updated by: michael (2011-01-16 11:20:57)
Homepage: http://earth.usc.edu/~becker/projects.i.html
Version: 1.2-20080724
ChangeLog:
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New Website (old one was: http://www.seismology.harvard.edu/~becker/igmt). New version (previous was 1.2.20070325).
Description:
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iGMT provides a graphical user interface and was built using the Tcl/Tk computer language. Besides supplying a user friendly way of handling GMT, iGMT comes with built-in support for many different geoscientific data sets, such as topography, gravity, seafloor age, hypocenter catalogs, plate boundary files, hotspot lists, CMT solutions etc.
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From freegis at intevation.de Wed Apr 6 20:35:10 2011
From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de)
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 20:35:10 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Freegis-updates] OGR
Message-ID: <20110406183510.02FF9600587@lists.intevation.de>
Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: OGR
Updated by: michael (2011-01-16 11:04:32)
Homepage: http://www.gdal.org/ogr
Version: 1.8.0
ChangeLog:
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New drivers: AeronavFAA, ArcObjects, GPSBabel, HTF, LIBKML, MSSQLSpatial, NAS, OpenAir, PDS, PGDump, SOSI, SUA, WFS. * Significantly improved drivers: DXF, GML
Description:
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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 Apr 6 20:35:24 2011
From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de)
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 20:35:24 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Freegis-updates] InteProxy
Message-ID: <20110406183524.C148660058F@lists.intevation.de>
Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: InteProxy
Updated by: michael (2011-01-16 13:40:39)
Homepage: http://inteproxy.wald.intevation.org
Version: 1.0.3
ChangeLog:
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New version, previous was 0.4.1.
Description:
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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 Wed Apr 6 20:36:23 2011
From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de)
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 20:36:23 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Freegis-updates] uDig
Message-ID: <20110406183623.25F3960058A@lists.intevation.de>
Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: uDig
Updated by: michael (2011-01-16 15:13:41)
Homepage: http://udig.refractions.net/
Version: 1.2.0
ChangeLog:
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New Version, previous was 1.1.1. New features: ImageIO-EXT rendering enabling additional raster formats and working with images larger then memory * On select platforms MRSID and ECW raster support * Tiled rendering * Support for GeoWebCache and TileCache via WMS-C * WFS 1.1.0 support (read-only) * Greatly improved ArcSDE support
Description:
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uDig is a spatial data viewer/editor, with special
emphasis on the OGC standards for internet GIS, the Web
Map Server and Web Feature Server standards.
uDig provides a common Java/Eclipse platform for
building spatial applications with open source components.
Best regards
Your FreeGIS Core Team.
From freegis at intevation.de Wed Apr 6 20:36:54 2011
From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de)
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 20:36:54 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Freegis-updates] OpenLayers
Message-ID: <20110406183654.DD8AC600592@lists.intevation.de>
Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: OpenLayers
Updated by: michael (2011-01-16 13:16:28)
Homepage: http://openlayers.org/
Version: 2.10
ChangeLog:
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New Version, previous was 2.7. New Addins 'InlineXhtml' adds support for WMS layers with SVG as image format, for SVG enabled browsers. Bugfixes.
Description:
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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 Wed Apr 6 20:37:20 2011
From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de)
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 20:37:20 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Freegis-updates] PROJ.4
Message-ID: <20110406183720.2CD8D600595@lists.intevation.de>
Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: PROJ.4
Updated by: michael (2011-01-16 09:15:06)
Homepage: http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/
Version: 4.7.0
ChangeLog:
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Implement mutex protection for grid loader/cacher. * NAD/EPSG Upgraded to EPSG 7.1. * Use autogen.sh from libLAS for wider platform (OSX, Solaris) compatibility.
Description:
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This package offers commandline tools and a library for
performing respective forward and inverse transformation of cartographic data to or from cartesian data with a wide range of selectable projection functions.
Best regards
Your FreeGIS Core Team.
From freegis at intevation.de Wed Apr 6 20:38:28 2011
From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de)
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 20:38:28 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Freegis-updates] Geospatial Data Abstraction Library
Message-ID: <20110406183828.97516600584@lists.intevation.de>
Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: Geospatial Data Abstraction Library
Updated by: michael (2011-01-16 09:27:02)
Homepage: http://www.gdal.org
Version: 1.8.0RC2
ChangeLog:
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New version, previous was 1.6.0. * Significantly improved OGR drivers : DXF, GML. * New GDAL drivers : GTX, HF2, JPEGLS, JP2OpenJPEG, JPIPKAK, KMLSUPEROVERLAY, LOS/LAS, MG4Lidar, NTv2, OZI, PDF, RASDAMAN, XYZ. * ew OGR drivers : AeronavFAA, ArcObjects, GPSBabel, HTF, LIBKML, MSSQLSpatial, NAS, OpenAir, PDS, PGDump, SOSI, SUA, WFS
Description:
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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 Apr 6 20:38:52 2011
From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de)
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 20:38:52 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Freegis-updates] PostGIS
Message-ID: <20110406183852.8FE1E600594@lists.intevation.de>
Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: PostGIS
Updated by: michael (2011-01-16 10:04:29)
Homepage: http://postgis.refractions.net/
Version: 1.5.2
ChangeLog:
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New Version, previous was 1.3.5. Several bugfixes
Description:
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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:
Books about GRASS:
Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach
by Markus Neteler and Helena Mitasova (new: 2007)
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From freegis at intevation.de Wed Apr 6 20:43:04 2011
From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de)
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 20:43:04 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Freegis-updates] MapServer
Message-ID: <20110406184304.6D49360059F@lists.intevation.de>
Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: MapServer
Updated by: michael (2011-01-16 09:56:30)
Homepage: http://www.mapserver.org/
Version: 5.6.5
ChangeLog:
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Version update from 5.6.0 to 5.6.5. Several bugfixes
Description:
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The heart of UMN MapServer is a CGI-based application for
delivering dynamic GIS and image processing content
via the World-Wide Web (WWW).
The package also contains a number of stand alone
applications for building maps, scalebars and legends offline.
Access to the development environment of MapServer is
possible with a number of different programming languages.
Best regards
Your FreeGIS Core Team.
From freegis at intevation.de Wed Apr 6 20:43:23 2011
From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de)
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 20:43:23 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Freegis-updates] Quantum GIS
Message-ID: <20110406184323.7162160C4A6@lists.intevation.de>
Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: Quantum GIS
Updated by: michael (2011-01-16 11:44:15)
Homepage: http://qgis.org/
Version: 1.6
ChangeLog:
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New Version. Previous was 1.4. Major improvements in editing functionality, import of OGR-formats, new Python shell
Description:
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Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Geographic Information System (GIS). QGIS supports vector, raster, and database formats. It supports many common spatial data formats. QGIS supports plugins to do things like display tracks from GPS or served online spatial data as OGC-compliant WMS or WFS.
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Your FreeGIS Core Team.