OSGeo-Live 6.0 released

20 August 2012

Version 6.0 of the OSGeo-Live GIS software collection and accompanying Lightening Presentation, has been released, ready for distribution at a large number of geospatial conferences and workshops from around the world.

Release Highlights

OpenJDK 7: All OSGeo-Live java applications have successfully been migrated to OpenJDK 7. This move to OpenJDK has been driven by Oracle's announcement that Sun Java is no longer allowed to be distributed in Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, or OSGeo-Live.

Translations
Ubuntu 12.04

About OSGeo-Live

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. The lightening overview introduces all these applications, and hence provides a comprehensive introduction to the breadth of Geospatial Open Source.

http://live.osgeo.org

It includes:

50 Quality Geospatial Open Source applications installed and pre-configured
Quality free world maps and geodata
One page overviews and quick start guides for all applications
Overviews of key OGC standards
Translations for Greek, German, Polish, Spanish and Japanese

GeoServer
MapServer
deegree
GeoNetwork - Metadata Catalogue
pycsw - Metadata Catalogue
MapProxy - Proxy WMS & tile services
QGIS Server - Web Map Service
52°North WSS - Web Security Service
52°North WPS - Web Processing Service
52°North SOS - Sensor Observation Service
TinyOWS - WFS-T Service
ZOO Project - Web Processing Service

Data

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

Geospatial Libraries

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

Other software of interest (not available Live)

MapWindow GIS - Microsoft Windows based GIS
MapGuide Open Source - Web Service

Where to find OSGeo-Live

You can pick up an OSGeo-Live DVD or USB and/or see the presentation at:

Our http://live.osgeo.org website
Malaysian Geospatial Forum, Malaka, Malaysia, March 2012
Spanish FOSS4G 2012, Girona, Spain, March 2012
FOSSGIS 2012, Dessau, Germany,March 2012
AWRA GIS and Water Resources Conference, New Orleans, USA, March 2012
GISRUK 2012, Lancaster University, UK, April 2012
FOSS4G North America 2012, Washington DC, USA, April 2012
FOSS4G-CEE & Geoinformatics 2012, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2012,
MapWindow/FOSS4G Regional Netherlands, Velp, The Netherlands, June 2012
International Environmental Modeling and Software Society Conference (IEMSS), Leipzig, Germany, July 2012
34th International Geological Conference, Brisbane, Australia, August 2012
International FOSS4G2012, Beijing, China, September 2012
INTERGEO, Hannover Germany, October 2012

Credits

Over 80 people have directly helped with OSGeo-Live packaging, documenting and translating, and thousands have been involved in building the packaged software.

Packagers, documenters and translators include: Agustín Díez, Aikaterini Kapsampeli, Alan Boudreault, Alexandre Dube, Alex Mandel, Andrea Antonello, Andrea Yanza, Angelos Tzotsos, Anne Ghisla, Anton Patrushev, Argyros Argyridis, Astrid Emde, Brian Hamlin, Bruno Binet, Cameron Shorter, Christos Iossifidis, Dane Springmeyer, Daniel Kastl, David Mateos, Diego González, Dimitar Misev, Dominik Helle, Edgar Soldin, Eike Hinderk Jürrens, Eric Lemoine, Etienne Dube, Fran Boon, François Prunayre, Frank Gasdorf, Gavin Treadgold, Gérald Fenoy, Hamish Bowman, Haruyuki Seki, Henry Addo, Hernan Olivera, Howard Butler, Ian Turton, Jackie Ng, Jan Drewnak, Javier Sanchez, Jesús Gómez, Jim Klassen, Jody Garnett, Johan Van de Wauw, Jorge Arévalo, Jorge Sanz, José Antonio Canalejo, Judit Mays, Klokan Petr Pridal, Kristof Lange, Lance McKee, Lars Lingner, Lucía Sanjaime, Mage Whopper, Manuel Grizonnet, Marco Puppin, Mark Leslie, Massimo Di Stefano, Mauricio Miranda, Mauricio Pazos, Michaël Michaud, Michael Owonibi, Micha Silver, Mike Adair, Milena Nowotarska, Nathaniel V. Kelso, Ned Horning, Nobusuke Iwasaki, Oliver Tonnhofer, Òscar Fonts, Otto Dassau, Paul Meems, Pedro-Juan Ferrer, Pirmin Kalberer, Ricardo Pinho, Roald de Wit, Roberto Antolín, Ruth Schoenbuchner, Samuel Mesa, Sergio Baños, Simon Cropper, Simon Pigot, Stefan A. Tzeggai, Stefan Hansen, Steve Lime, Thierry Badard, Thomas Baschetti, Tom Kralidis, Trevor Wekel, Valenty Gonzalez, Yoichi Kayama

Sponsoring organisations

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) provides the primary development & hosting infrastructure and personnel for the project, and for many of the software teams which contribute to it.

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. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianGis and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGIS

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