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ossimPlanet 1.6.8 Binary Installers Released

posted by Satri on Friday June 08, @05:05PM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the constestant-as-open-source-virtual-globe dept.
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mlucas17 writes "ossimPlanet 1.6.8 is now available for download. Binary installers for MacOSX and Windows will fetch the installers. This release has improved OGC WMS interfaces, performance enhancements, initial KML support, and WorldWind server access. Direct drag and drop of most geospatial formats is also supported. Much of the focus of ossimPlanet will remain on geodetic accuracy, native file formats, and distributed collaboration. This version supports broadcast and listening channels that allow navigation synchronization of multiple clients. An initial users guide can be downloaded from here. The home page for this open source project is located at http://www.ossim.org/." ossimPlanet was introduced here a few months ago, it's an high performance open source virtual globe.

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mlucas17 writes "ossimPlanet is a high performance, cross platform, open source software virtual earth. It differs from other solutions in that it is scientifically accurate, does not require pre-layering of data sets, and is written in C++. Binary installers for Windows and MacOSX and source code for all platforms are located at http://www.ossim.org.  It is built on top of OpenSceneGraph for advanced visualization and OSSIM for geo-spatial processing. OSSIM is one of the founding projects of the OSGeo foundation." This sounds really great. The website does not provide answers to some questions such as: does it supports kml? How ossimPlanet is or is not a competitor to NASA World Wind Java? Why is ossimPlanet rather unknown in the geospatial community at this moment?
ossimPlanet 1.7.0 Released [+]
mlucas17 writes "Binary installers are now available for ossimPlanet 1.7.0. This is the first release were we are supporting Windows XP installers in addition to the MacOSX versions. The new version includes BigTiff, Pixia NUI, KML and KMZ support. The OGC WMS interfaces have been improved and new communications mechanisms allow the synchronization of navigation and data in multiple ossimPlanets. With the KMZ support the user can drag and drop urban models from the Google 3D warehouse. The full installs include global bathymetry and elevation as well as a blue marble next generation backdrop. With ossimPlanet, the emphasis is on performance, native file access, and collaboration. OssimPlanet is part of the OSSIM project. OSSIM is part of the OSGeo open source foundation. More details are available at: http://www.ossim.org/OSSIM/News/Entries/2007/11/17 _ossimPlanet_1.7.0.html" Here's the previous story explaining what ossimPlanet is.
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  • In other news...

    (Score:2, Interesting)
    by PB (768) on Monday June 11, @03:00AM (#1486)
    ( http://gis.umcs.lublin.pl/ )
    ...people are still waiting for a Linux version that can be compiled without rewriting half of the includes (correcting wrong case in filenames) and then failing anyway. (Well, the last versuion I checked was 1.6.4, but there are no tarballs for other versions - or there are no tarballs at all, actually - and svn checkout fails, so it's all the same really.)