Live GIS Disc Press Release 66

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OSGeo-Live 9.5 Released

21 March 2016

ATHENS, GREECE. -- The Open Source Geospatial Foundation has released version 9.5 of OSGeo-Live. In a process of community-driven, open and reproducible software development, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation publishes OSGeo-Live twice yearly. This Spring 2016 Edition of OSGeo-Live features QGis 2.14 "Essen" LTS, a friendly, standards-driven and open-source desktop GIS application, every OSGeo Incubated Project, and a thoroughly interoperable collection of more than fifty software packages for maps, mapping and every aspect of geospatial data handling. Once again, users across the globe can depend on OSGeo-Live, which includes overview and introductory examples for every major software package, translated into twelve languages.

"This may very well be the best OSGeo-Live to date. We are seeing massive new interest from the educational and government sectors, and have enjoyed the technical benefits of a rock-solid Ubuntu 1404 LTS, combined with the light-weight LXDE desktop interface for ease of use," said Cameron Shorter, Geospatial Programs Manager at LISASoft, Australia. QGis 2.14 LTS includes more than one hundred new features added or improved since the last QGis LTS release (version 2.8), sponsored by dozens of geospatial data providers, private sector companies and public sector governing bodies around the world.

New and notable to technical integrators is a substantial increase in Ubuntu .deb packages, making more than one hundred software components individually installable in an industry-standard way. Available debian/ubuntu packages include: PostGIS 2.2 (with optional SFCGAL geometry engine); Project Jupyter (previously known as the IPython Notebook); R geostatistics modules; GRASS 7; Mapserver 7, JOSM and Merkaartor Openstreetmap editors; SAGA desktop analytics, and a collection of python language interfaces including folium, pySAL, cartopy, Iris, fiona, rasterio, shapely, netCDF4 and geoPandas.

Included in OSGeo-Live are web-mapping frameworks Leaflet and OpenLayers (versions 2 and 3), Cesium, Rasdaman, Sahana, Ushahidi, Geoserver, Geonode, Geomoose, desktop OpenJUMP, uDig among others, and OpenStreetMap sample data, Natural Earth sample layers, and the SciPy Python analytics stack. A downloadable ISO disk image is available, in addition to a Virtual Machine (VM) image, to try the collection without installing any software.

For more information, please visit our website live.osgeo.org.


Release Highlights

New Applications
Java World Wind - Desktop Virtual Globe
istSOS - Sensor Observation Service
Updated Applications
22 geospatial programs have been updated to newer versions.

About OSGeo-Live

OSGeo-Live is a self-contained bootable DVD, USB flash drive and Virtual Machine, pre-installed with robust open source geospatial software, which can be trialled without installing anything. It includes:

  • Over 50 quality geospatial Open Source applications installed and pre-configured
  • Free world maps and sample datasets
  • Project Overview and step-by-step Quickstart for each application
  • Lightning presentation of all applications, along with speaker's script
  • Overviews of key OGC standards
  • Translations to multiple languages

Homepage: http://live.osgeo.org

Download details: http://live.osgeo.org/en/download.html

Post release glitches collected here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc/Errata/9.5

Credits

Over 180 people have directly helped with OSGeo-Live packaging, documenting and translating, and thousands have been involved in building the packaged software.

Developers, packagers, documenters and translators include:

Activity Workshop, Agustín Dí­ez, Aikaterini Kapsampeli, Alan Beccati, Alan Boudreault, Alessandro Furieri, Alexander Bruy, Alexander Kleshnin, Alexander Muriy, Alexandre Dube, Alexey Ardyakov, Alex Mandel, Amy Gao, Andrea Antonello, Andrea Yanza, Andrey Syrokomskiy, Andry Rustanto, Angelos Tzotsos, Anna Muñoz, Antonio Falciano, Antonio Santiago, Anton Novichikhin, Anton Patrushev, Argyros Argyridis, Ariel Núñez, Assumpció Termens, Astrid Emde, Balasubramaniam Natarajan, Barry Rowlingson, Benjamin Pross, Brian Hamlin, Bruno Binet, Bu Kun, Cameron Shorter, Christophe Tufféry, Christos Iossifidis, Cristhian Pin, Damian Wojsław, Dane Springmeyer, Daniel Kastl, Danilo Bretschneider, Daria Svidzinska, David Mateos, Denis Rykov, Diego González, Diego Migliavacca, Dimitar Misev, Dmitry Baryshnikov, Dominik Helle, Edgar Soldin, Eike Hinderk Jürrens, Elena Mezzini, Eric Lemoine, Erika Pillu, Estela Llorente, Etienne Delay, Etienne Dube, Evgeny Nikulin, Fabian Schindler, Fran Boon, François Prunayre, Frank Gasdorf, Frank Warmerdam, Friedjoff Trautwein, Gabriele Prestifilippo, Gavin Treadgold, Giuseppe Calamita, Grald Fenoy, Grigory Rozhentsov, Guillaume Pasero, Guy Griffiths, Hamish Bowman, Haruyuki Seki, Henry Addo, Hernan Olivera, Hirofumi Hayashi, Howard Butler, Hungary, Hyeyeong Choe, Ian Edwards, Ian Turton, Ilya Filippov, Jackie Ng, Jan Drewnak, Jane Lewis, Javier Rodrigo, Javier Sánchez, Jesús Gómez, Jim Klassen, Jing Wang, Jinsongdi Yu, Jody Garnett, Johan Van de Wauw, John Bryant, Jorge Arévalo, Jorge Sanz, José Antonio Canalejo, José Vicente Higón, Judit Mays, Klokan Petr Pridal, Ko Nagase, Kristof Lange, kuzkok, Lance McKee, Larry Shaffer, Lars Lingner, Luca Delucchi, Lucía Sanjaime, Mage Whopper, Manuel Grizonnet, Marc-André Barbeau, Marco Curreli, Marco Puppin, Marc Torres, Margherita Di Leo, Maria Vakalopoulou, Mario Andino, Mario Carrera, Mark Leslie, Markus Neteler, Massimo Di Stefano, Matteo De Stefano, Matthias Streulens, Mauricio Miranda, Mauricio Pazos, Maxim Dubinin, Michaël Michaud, Michael Owonibi, Micha Silver, Mike Adair, Milan P. Antonovic, Milena Nowotarska, M Iqnaul Haq Siregar, Nacho Varela, Nadiia Gorash, Name, Nathaniel V. Kelso, Ned Horning, Nicolas Roelandt, Nobusuke Iwasaki, Oliver Tonnhofer, Òscar Fonts, Otto Dassau, Pasquale Di Donato, Patric Hafner, Paul Meems, Pavel, Pedro-Juan Ferrer, Pirmin Kalberer, Raf Roset, Regina Obe, Ricardo Pinho, Roald de Wit, Roberta Fagandini, Roberto Antolin, Roberto Antolí­n, Robin Lovelace, Roger Veciana, Ruth Schoenbuchner, Samuel Mesa, Scott Penrose, Sergey Grachev, Sergey Popov, Sergio Baños, Simon Cropper, Simon Pigot, Stefan A. Tzeggai, Stefan Hansen, Stefan Steiniger, Stephan Meissl, Steve Lime, Takayuki Nuimura, Thierry Badard, Thomas Baschetti, Thomas Gratier, Tom Kralidis, Toshikazu Seto, Trevor Wekel, Valenty González, Vera, Victor Poughon, Xianfeng Song, Yoichi Kayama, Zhengfan Lin, Zoltan Siki

Sponsoring organisations

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