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gvSIG Third Annual Conference Report
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Mapping Hacks has a interesting report on the gvSIG third annual conference. gvSIG is an important desktop GIS system written in Java, now in the OSGeo incubation process. From the report: "The conference drew a diverse audience of several hundred attendees from Europe and Latin America. As the conference - and indeed gvSIG itself - has largely been funded by government agencies, the crowd here has been a pretty fascinating mix of hackers and bureaucrats, one that is hopefully representative of the future role of Open Source GIS in governments around the world. [...] Sr. Camargo made an observation that, I think, perfectly captures the considerable value of Free and Open Source software to the less wealthy parts of the world, where, perhaps, the analytical capacities of GIS for environmental and civic planning is needed most. He said — and I paraphrase in English — “We could not buy the licenses for proprietary GIS software. If we tell the mayor of this village what the software license alone costs, he will go nuts. Should he spend all this money on GIS software? He would rather use the money to fix the roads in his village.” He added: “But we could not even simply obtain the software without a license. If we were to pirate the proprietary software, we would only get it in English — and then no one in the village would be able to use it.”" Here's more discussion on the OSGeo mailing list.
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gvSIG 1.1 Released
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The open source GIS gvSIG 1.1 has been recently announced. All Points Blog explains the buzz around gvSIG: "- The team includes two rather large main contractors and a host of smaller ones. There are also volunteers. That's about 40 developers, with total staff (including management) at about 70-80.
- The current funding includes E12 million that runs from 2007 until 2013.
- There are 1000 subscribers on the project list, and the project has been downloaded 70,000 times.
- The plan for success included the idea of starting small, proving the result worked and growing the project from there. The guiding principle is "we have to share knowledge" and the group is anxious to show the success of this new model for collaboration." See below for previous gvSIG coverage.
Industry: gvSIG Update Version 1.1.1 and 3D Pilot Extension
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Alvaro Anguix writes "gvSIG 1.1.1, a partial update of gvSIG 1.1, is now available for download in which some problems detected by our users have been fixed, so it is possible to working normally with the application.
As usual, it can be downloaded from the Download section of the web page.
The problems fixed in this distribution can be checked from the Release Notes Section and to install the partial update you must have gvSIG 1.1 correctly installed.
On the other hand, the pilot application awarded the development contract for the 3D Extension by the Regional Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport is available too. It allows the creation of 3D Views, XYZ-projected as well as spherical (planetary), where local and remote data sources can be loaded as layers, and displayed using most of the options available in 2D like transparency, labeling, legends, etc.
It's available in the Extensions section of the web page and to install this extension you must have correctly installed gvSIG 1.1.1 version." I copied below several previous stories on the open source GIS gvSIG.
gvSIG 1.1.1: ArcSDE Client Extension
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Alvaro Anguix writes "The ArcSDE client extension for gvSIG 1.1.1 that allows users to access this kind of spatial databases, easily loading geometries by using the same interface as the rest of database layers is available. So far this extension only allows access to vector layers in the database. From the gvSIG project, we would like to sincerely thank the Ministry for Sustainable Development and Territorial Planning of the Region of Murcia for its dedication to supporting this new extension, substantially improving the application for the benefit of all members of the gvSIG community. It is available in the Extensions option from the Downloads section of the web page. Advice: To install this extension you must have correctly installed gvSIG 1.1.1 version. Regards, Alvaro Anguix gvSIG Team" See also gvSIG related stories below.
Industry: gvSIG Community
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Alvaro Anguix writes "Hello everyone
This mail is being sent to several lists, so I apologize for those who receive multiple copies.
We intend to put in place an infrastructure that allows collaboration on a speedy, direct and open way with gvSIG.
We are at the beginning of this work, but we prefer to announce it and start realeasing what we are doing, better than waiting to have “the Cathedral”.
You can visit https://gvsig.org/ to see what we are having prepared. In the Documentation section, you will find documentation for users and on-line developers.
At the same time, two of the issues on which we are taking into account the Community as much as possible, are testing and translations tasks.
All of you interested in testing should contact Manual Madrid indicating in which areas of gvSIG you would like to help as testers, if you are a single tester or a coordinator of a testing group, and all those things that might occur to you.
With regard to the translations, the coordinator is Mario Carrera . We know that several groups of translators are being organized in different places like Germany and Italy. We have great interest in having the highest quality in english translations, as a base from which extend gvSIG to other linguistic communities. Of course, this is applying not only to the gvSIG interface but to the documentation in general.
That's why, on the issue of translation into English, we would like to have translators and supervisors, that are mostly specialists in Geomatics and english native-tongued.
Finally, a few days ago we were in the 2^nd Meeting in Open GIS Software in Girona. We congratulate the organizers and greet all the people with whom we had the opportunity to share a few days very rewarding, both professionally and personally.
Wish the Meetings of Girona become an unmissable event every year.
Sincerely, Gabi"
gvSIG has been mentioned several times before, see related stories below.
This mail is being sent to several lists, so I apologize for those who receive multiple copies.
We intend to put in place an infrastructure that allows collaboration on a speedy, direct and open way with gvSIG.
We are at the beginning of this work, but we prefer to announce it and start realeasing what we are doing, better than waiting to have “the Cathedral”.
You can visit https://gvsig.org/ to see what we are having prepared. In the Documentation section, you will find documentation for users and on-line developers.
At the same time, two of the issues on which we are taking into account the Community as much as possible, are testing and translations tasks.
All of you interested in testing should contact Manual Madrid indicating in which areas of gvSIG you would like to help as testers, if you are a single tester or a coordinator of a testing group, and all those things that might occur to you.
With regard to the translations, the coordinator is Mario Carrera . We know that several groups of translators are being organized in different places like Germany and Italy. We have great interest in having the highest quality in english translations, as a base from which extend gvSIG to other linguistic communities. Of course, this is applying not only to the gvSIG interface but to the documentation in general.
That's why, on the issue of translation into English, we would like to have translators and supervisors, that are mostly specialists in Geomatics and english native-tongued.
Finally, a few days ago we were in the 2^nd Meeting in Open GIS Software in Girona. We congratulate the organizers and greet all the people with whom we had the opportunity to share a few days very rewarding, both professionally and personally.
Wish the Meetings of Girona become an unmissable event every year.
Sincerely, Gabi"
gvSIG has been mentioned several times before, see related stories below.
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