Live GIS Disc Press Release 22

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OSGeo-Live 4.5, the Open Source Geospatial DVD, released

28 March 2011

Version 5.0 of the OSGeo-Live GIS software collection has been released. OSGeo-Live is a self-contained bootable DVD, USB flash drive and Virtual Machine based upon Ubuntu Linux that is pre-configured with a wide variety of robust open source geospatial software. The applications can be trialled without installing anything on your computer, simply by booting the computer from the DVD or USB drive.

Homepage

http://live.osgeo.org

Highlights

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• 45 Quality GeoSpatial Open Source applications installed and pre-configured
• Quality free world maps
• One page overviews and quick starts for all applications
• Overviews of key OGC standards
• Translations for Greek, German, Polish, Spanish and Japanese

Packages

Browser Clients

• OpenLayers 2.10 - Browser GIS Client
• Geomajas - 1.8 Browser GIS Client
• Mapbender 2.7.2 - Geoportal Framework
• MapFish 2.2 - Web Mapping Framework
• GeoMoose 2.4 - Web GIS Portal

Crisis Management

• Sahana Eden 0.5.5 - Disaster management
• Ushahidi 2.1 - Mapping and Timeline for events

Databases

• PostGIS 1.5 - Spatial Database
• SpatiaLite 2.3.1 / 2.4 beta - Lightweight Database
• Rasdaman 8.2 - Multi-Dimensional Raster Database
• pgRouting 1.05 - Routing for PostGIS

Desktop GIS

• Quantum GIS (QGIS) 1.7.0
• GRASS GIS 6.4.1
• gvSIG Desktop 1.11
• User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) 1.2.2
• Kosmo Desktop 2.0.1
• OpenJUMP GIS 1.4.0.1
• SAGA 2.0.7
• OSSIM 1.8.6 - Image Processing
• Geopublisher 1.7 - Catalogue
• AtlasStyler 1.7 - Style Editor
• osgEarth 2.0 - 3D Terrain Rendering

Navigation and Maps

• GpsDrive 2.11 - GPS Navigation
• Marble 1.0.2 - Spinning Globe
• OpenCPN 2.5.0 - Marine GPS Chartplotter
• OpenStreetMap Tools
• Prune 12 - View, Edit and Convert GPS Tracks
• Viking 9.9.94 - GPS Data Analysis and Viewer
• zyGrib 5.0 - Weather Forecast Maps

Spatial Tools

• GeoKettle 2.0-RC1 - ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) Tool
• GDAL/OGR 1.8.0 - GeoSpatial Data Translation Tools
• GMT 4.5.2 - Cartographic Rendering
• Mapnik 0.7.1 - Cartographic Rendering
• MapTiler 1.0beta2 - Create Map Tiles
• OTB 3.10 - Image Processing
• R Spatial Task View 2.12.1 - Statistical Programming

Web Services

• GeoServer 2.1.1
• MapServer 6.0.1
• deegree 3.0
• GeoNetwork 2.6.4 - Metadata Catalog and Catalog Services for Web
• MapProxy 1.1.1 - Proxy WMS & tile services
• QGIS Server 1.7.0 - Web Map Service
• 52°North WSS 2.2.0 - Web Security Service
• 52°North WPS - 2.0 RC6 - Web Processing Service
• 52°North SOS - 3.2.0 Sensor Observation Service
• TinyOWS 1.0 - WFS-T Service
• ZOO Project 1.0.0 - Web Processing Service

Data

• Natural Earth 1.3.1 - Geographic Data Sets
• OSGeo North Carolina 2008 - USA Educational dataset
• OpenStreetMap - Sample extract from OpenStreetMap

Geospatial Libraries

• GeoTools - Java GIS Toolkit
• MetaCRS - Coordinate Reference System Transformations
• libLAS - LiDAR Data Access

Credits

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Over 60 people have directly helped with OSGeo-Live packaging, documenting and translating, and thousands have been involved in building the packaged software.

Packagers and documenters: Alan Boudreault, Alex Mandel, Alexandre Dube, Andrea Antonello, Anton Patrushev, Astrid Emde, Brian Hamlin, Bruno Binet, Cameron Shorter, Dane Springmeyer, Daniel Kastl, Eike Hinderk Jürrens, Eric Lemoine, Etienne Dube, Fran Boon, François Prunayre, Gavin Treadgold, Gérald Fenoy, Hamish Bowman, Haruyuki Seki, Henry Addo, Ian Turton, Jody Garnett, Johan Van de Wauw, Jorge Sanz, Judit Mays, Klokan Petr Pridal, Kristof Lange, Lance McKee, Manuel Grizonnet, Mark Leslie, Massimo Di Stefano, Michael Owonibi, Nathaniel V. Kelso, Pirmin Kalberer, Ricardo Pinho, Sergio Baños, Simon Pigot, Stefan A. Tzeggai, Stefan Hansen, Thierry Badard and Trevor Wekel

Translators: Aikaterini Kapsampeli, Angelos Tzotsos, Anne Ghisla, Argyros Argyridis, Astrid Emde, Christos Iossifidis, Daniel Kastl, Haruyuki Seki, Javier Sanchez, Jorge Sanz, Lars Lingner, Marco Puppin, Massimo Di Stefano, Milena Nowotaska, Nobusuke Iwasaki, Otto Dassau, Ruth Schoenbuchner, Thomas Baschetti, Valenty Gonzalez and Yoichi Kayama

Sponsoring institutions:

LISAsoft provides sustaining resources and staff toward the management and packaging of software onto the Live DVD. http://www.lisasoft.com

Information Center for the Environment at the University of California, Davis provides hardware resources and development support to the OSGeo Live project. http://ice.ucdavis.edu

The DebianGIS and UbuntuGIS teams provide and quality-assure many of the core packages.