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SAGA GIS 2.0 Released
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The Free Geo Tools blog informs us the open source SAGA GIS version 2.0 has been released. SAGA GIS is Windows-only and here the SAGA GIS official website. From this latter link: "SAGA – System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses- is a hybrid GIS software. The first objective of SAGA is to give (geo-)scientists an effective but easy learnable platform for the implementation of geoscientific methods, which is achieved by SAGA's unique Application Programming Interface (API). The second is to make these methods accessible in a user friendly way. This is mainly done by the Graphical User Interface (GUI). Together this results in SAGA's true strength: a fast growing set of geoscientifc methods, bundled in exchangeable Module Libraries." From the blog: "Version 2.0 now has a terrific 400-page manual, available at the SourceForge download page along with a copy of the demo data used in the manual."
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The name is also changing to "Free Geography Tools". While no one has complained, there are too many other people using GeoTools (the Java GeoTools toolkit, the ESRI extensions, GeoTools Software, the Coastal GeoTools Conference, etc.).