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: ---------- Changes License from GNU GPL to GNU GPL v2. Description: ------------ gen2shp is a simple C-Progam which can read the format required by the ESRI ArcInfo generate command. Best regards 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: ---------- 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: ------------ 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. Best regards 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: ---------- 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: ------------ 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: ---------- Updated URL (was: http://cran.at.r-project.org/src/contrib/Views/Spatial.html). New version, previous was 2.1.1. Several bugfixes. Description: ------------ 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: ---------- 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: ------------ 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: ---------- New version. Previous was 2.09. Description: ------------ 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: ---------- New Website (old one was: http://www.seismology.harvard.edu/~becker/igmt). New version (previous was 1.2.20070325). Description: ------------ 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. Best regards Your FreeGIS Core Team. 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: ---------- New drivers: AeronavFAA, ArcObjects, GPSBabel, HTF, LIBKML, MSSQLSpatial, NAS, OpenAir, PDS, PGDump, SOSI, SUA, WFS. * Significantly improved drivers: DXF, GML 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 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: ---------- New version, previous was 0.4.1. 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 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: ---------- 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: ------------ 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: ---------- 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: ------------ 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: ---------- 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: ------------ 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: ---------- 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: ------------ 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: ---------- New Version, previous was 1.3.5. Several bugfixes 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 Wed Apr 6 20:41:02 2011 From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de) Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 20:41:02 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-updates] The Generic Mapping Tools Message-ID: <20110406184102.E5034600594@lists.intevation.de> Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: The Generic Mapping Tools Updated by: michael (2011-01-16 09:43:55) Homepage: http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/ Version: 4.5.5 ChangeLog: ---------- several bugfixes 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 Wed Apr 6 20:41:24 2011 From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de) Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 20:41:24 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-updates] deegree Message-ID: <20110406184124.B3E2B600599@lists.intevation.de> Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: deegree Updated by: michael (2011-01-16 13:26:40) Homepage: http://www.deegree.org/ Version: 3.0 ChangeLog: ---------- New version (major release) 3.0, previous was 2.2. * Complete Rewrite from scratch * Easier and more robust configuration * Major performance and scalability improvements * Based on a complete ISO 19107 geometry model implementation. Description: ------------ Deegree offers the substantial building blocks for the building of a Spatial Data Infrastructure by implementing the standards of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and ISO/TC 211. Deegree components can be used to either develop a standalone desktop mapping solution to be locally installed on a users machine, or to set up a highly distributed and service-based infrastructure. Best regards Your FreeGIS Core Team. From freegis at intevation.de Wed Apr 6 20:41:45 2011 From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de) Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 20:41:45 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-updates] Geoserver Message-ID: <20110406184145.D491660059B@lists.intevation.de> Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: Geoserver Updated by: michael (2011-01-16 10:25:28) Homepage: http://geoserver.org Version: 2.0.2 ChangeLog: ---------- New version. Previous was 1.7.3. New features, wide array of bugs squashed, issues resolved and improvements. 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 Wed Apr 6 20:42:07 2011 From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de) Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 20:42:07 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-updates] geos Message-ID: <20110406184207.65EAB60059E@lists.intevation.de> Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: geos Updated by: michael (2011-01-16 15:07:24) Homepage: http://geos.refractions.net/ Version: 3.2.2 ChangeLog: ---------- New version, previous was 3.1.0. New features: Return of up to 15 digits of precision * Drastically improved Buffer speed in JTS-1.10 sync * Single-sided buffer operations * Replacement of MarkupSTL with tinyXML * Various bug and leak fixes, optimizations Description: ------------ GEOS (Geometry Engine - Open Source) is a C++ port of the Java Topology Suite (JTS). As such, it aims to contain the complete functionality of JTS in C++. This includes all the OpenGIS "Simple Features for SQL" spatial predicate functions and spatial operators, as well as specific JTS topology functions such as IsValid(). Best regards Your FreeGIS Core Team. From freegis at intevation.de Wed Apr 6 20:42:22 2011 From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de) Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 20:42:22 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-updates] Thuban Message-ID: <20110406184222.0BB6260C4A1@lists.intevation.de> Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: Thuban Updated by: michael (2011-01-16 15:00:49) Homepage: http://thuban.intevation.org/ Version: 1.2.2 ChangeLog: ---------- Added Screenshot URL. Changed License from GPL to GPLv2 Description: ------------ Thuban is an interactive geographic data viewer. Main features are its cross-plattform GUI, extensability and flexibility for deriving individual GIS applications. Thuban is implemented with wxPython which allows its GUI to blend in with desktop on different platforms. Best regards Your FreeGIS Core Team. From freegis at intevation.de Wed Apr 6 20:42:37 2011 From: freegis at intevation.de (freegis@intevation.de) Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 20:42:37 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Freegis-updates] Geographic Resources Analysis Support System Message-ID: <20110406184237.B334760059D@lists.intevation.de> Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: Geographic Resources Analysis Support System Updated by: michael (2011-01-16 08:33:15) Homepage: http://grass.osgeo.org/ Version: 6.4.1RC1 ChangeLog: ---------- Updating GRASS to the current stable version. 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 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: ---------- Version update from 5.6.0 to 5.6.5. Several bugfixes Description: ------------ 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: ---------- New Version. Previous was 1.4. Major improvements in editing functionality, import of OGR-formats, new Python shell Description: ------------ 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. Best regards Your FreeGIS Core Team.