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News Office. gvSIG Project writes "The 5th Edition of the gvSIG Conference, organized by the Regional Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport (CIT), will be held from December 2nd until December 4th at the Feria Valencia Convention and Exhibition Center, and will once again host the eclipseDay.
In these difficult times when collaboration is most important, we cope with the adversities together with the aim of coming out strengthened by them. We continue moving ahead together. This is part of the gvSIG project and through this approach we keep on growing. This is our slogan for the fifth edition of the gvSIG Conference: We keep growing.
The call for papers for the Fifth Edition of the gvSIG conference is now open. As of today communication proposals can be sent to the email address: contacto-jornadas-gvsig@gva.es; they will be evaluated by the scientific committee as to their inclusion in the conference program.
There are two types of communication: paper or poster. Information regarding to regulations on communication presentations can be found in the report's section. Abstracts will be accepted until September 21st .
Organizations interested in collaborating in the event can find information in the section: How to collaborate?"
gvSIG has been mentioned several times in the past, see selected stories below.
In these difficult times when collaboration is most important, we cope with the adversities together with the aim of coming out strengthened by them. We continue moving ahead together. This is part of the gvSIG project and through this approach we keep on growing. This is our slogan for the fifth edition of the gvSIG Conference: We keep growing.
The call for papers for the Fifth Edition of the gvSIG conference is now open. As of today communication proposals can be sent to the email address: contacto-jornadas-gvsig@gva.es; they will be evaluated by the scientific committee as to their inclusion in the conference program.
There are two types of communication: paper or poster. Information regarding to regulations on communication presentations can be found in the report's section. Abstracts will be accepted until September 21st .
Organizations interested in collaborating in the event can find information in the section: How to collaborate?"
gvSIG has been mentioned several times in the past, see selected stories below.
Related Stories
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.
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.
Industry: 4th gvSIG Conference - Registration Period is Open
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News Office. gvSIG Project writes "Opened the registration period for the 4th gvSIG Conference, organized by the Regional Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport (CIT). They will be celebrated from 3rd to 5th December 2008 in the Valencia Conference Centre, and the Open Geospatial Consortium Meeting (1st to 5th December) and the Eclipse Day (2nd December) event will be celebrated at the same time. Registrations are free of cost (limited capacity) and must be done through the application form on the Conference web page (http://www.jornadasgvsig.gva.es/ingl/boletindeins cripcion/). Registration requests made by e-mail, telephone or fax will not be attended.
Once the registration is done you will immediatelly receive a confirmation code. Please, keep this code for later consultations or for update the registration data.
At the end of the conferences the participants, including present public, will receive an Participation Certificate."
Once the registration is done you will immediatelly receive a confirmation code. Please, keep this code for later consultations or for update the registration data.
At the end of the conferences the participants, including present public, will receive an Participation Certificate."
Industry: ESRI Refuses Conference Access to Open Source Companies 2 comments
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It may be sensationalism, but strange nonetheless. From the ESRI Spain conference incident thread, writen by one Spanish company employee supporting gvSIG: "Ok, some coworkers of him went to Madrid few days
ago to attend the Annual ESRI Users Conference. Because IVER has
customers that use ESRI technology they, as every year, wanted to know
the latest "arc-news". Obviously they registered previously and they
were confirmed by the organization.
Well, when they tried to register at the beginning of the conference,
the Marketing Director invited them to abandon the conference. Even
more, the Managing Director of ESRI Spain insisted one of the IVER
people that "to talk with customers, better she should go to a café or
on the street". Quite annoying and bizarre!" You can read the whole thread to learn more about reactions and also look at the original entry in Spanish.
Industry: gvSIG Mobile Ported to Openmoko
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iknowjoseph writes "Juan Lucas Domínguez Rubio has announced the release of gvSIG Mobile for Openmoko; the first time the software has been made available for handhelds not based on Windows Mobile:
Screenshots, link to the source, installation instructions etc available from Juan Lucas' blog." We mentioned Openmoko before and gvSIG plenty of times. This is an interesting step for mobile (e.g. on phones) open source GIS.Features include:
Browsing Spherical Mercator remote tile services (OpenStreetMap layers and Yahoo Maps Satellite layer).
Easily configurable access to standard WMS servers (version 1.1.1). The application applies a tile approach.
Support for the vector data file de facto standard (ESRI shapefile, *.shp).
Access to GPS device via Gpsd. A rotating arrow shows on the map indicating position and heading. Coordinates are also shown.
gvSIG: Translation Management Extension is Now Available
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gvSIG project News Office writes "The extension to easily manage the user interface over a gvSIG installation, allowing for the translation to new languages without having to install a new version of gvSIG is now available. It also allows updating or to complete languages already installed, and facilitates the translation to new languages using some of the ones already installed as a reference by exporting the necessary files, as well as the uninstalling of a language translation.
It is available in the Extensions section of the web page.
New languages are included too, as well as updates of some languages already included in gvSIG, to be loaded with this extension in gvSIG 1.1.2. Languages can be downloaded from here, where is the explanation about how to load them in gvSIG too.
Advice: To install this extension you must have correctly installed gvSIG 1.1.2 version."
See gvSIG related stories below.
Normalization Extension for gvSIG 1.1.2
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gvSIG Project writes "It is available already for gvSIG the normalization extension. This extension allows separating chains of text in different parts and storing them in table fields. These chains of text can have their origin in plain text files or in the different records of a table field.
It is available in the Extensions section of the gvSIG web page.
Advice: To install this extension you must have correctly installed gvSIG 1.1.2 version."
See also related stories below.
Calendar: 1st Latin American and Caribbean gvSIG conference
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gvSIG Project writes "Buenos Aires will host the 1st Latin American and Caribbean gvSIG users' conference [1], organized by the National Geographic Institute of the Republic of Argentina and the gvSIG Association, with the slogan: "Cooperation is Growth"
This conference will serve as a meeting point to an increasing number of experts and stakeholders in free geomatics, to share experiences and exchange ideas. It will be a turning point towards consolidating the Latin American gvSIG community.
During the conference the latest advances in the gvSIG project will be presented such as the uses and solutions based on gvSIG that are being carried out in diverse Latin American countries; projects that closely follow the international interoperability standards and which are also more sustainable.
Participation in this conference will be open to any person or organization interested in providing a communication and proposals can be sent for evaluation by the Scientific Committee.
The call for communications proposals is open from today until July 27, 2009. Information regarding regulations on communication presentations can be found in the communication's section on the conference's webpage [2].
[1] http://www.gvsig.org/web/community/events/jornadas -lac/2009/
[2] http://www.gvsig.org/web/community/events/jornadas -lac/2009/Comunicaciones"
See some previous gvSIG stories below.
This conference will serve as a meeting point to an increasing number of experts and stakeholders in free geomatics, to share experiences and exchange ideas. It will be a turning point towards consolidating the Latin American gvSIG community.
During the conference the latest advances in the gvSIG project will be presented such as the uses and solutions based on gvSIG that are being carried out in diverse Latin American countries; projects that closely follow the international interoperability standards and which are also more sustainable.
Participation in this conference will be open to any person or organization interested in providing a communication and proposals can be sent for evaluation by the Scientific Committee.
The call for communications proposals is open from today until July 27, 2009. Information regarding regulations on communication presentations can be found in the communication's section on the conference's webpage [2].
[1] http://www.gvsig.org/web/community/events/jornadas -lac/2009/
[2] http://www.gvsig.org/web/community/events/jornadas -lac/2009/Comunicaciones"
See some previous gvSIG stories below.
Application Domains: gvSIG Mini for Java and Android Phones
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Jorge Sanz writes "gvSIG Mini has been born. gvSIG Mini is a brand-new open-source project (GNU/GPL) aimed at cellular phones. It can access free maps based on tile services (OpenStreetMap, Yahoo, etc.), with WMS client, address searching, POIs, routing and more. It has been developed by Prodevelop (Spain). We are pleased to receive your comments, suggestions, contributions,... and are open to collaborate with anyone willing to use or modify this project, or work in similar ones. More information at http://gvsigmini.org/ or just point your devices to http://m.gvsigmini.org/ and give it a try!"
See also previous gvSIG stories below. By the way, gvSIG is now at version 1.9rc2.
New Version of gvSIG Desktop Released: gvSIG 1.9
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gvSIG 1.9 has been released, read more below to read the full announcement. GeoMusings shares a summary: "The new features in 1.9 are summarized here.
Some of the new features, including SLD import/export, are pretty interesting. gvSIG seems to be flourishing a bit under the wing of OSGEO." See also related stories below, we regularly mention gvSIG.
There's also an unofficial gvSIG Mobile 0.1.5 now available.
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