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<p>Version 4.5 of the OSGeo Live GIS software collection has been
released, along with a 25 minute video describing the 42
contributing GeoSpatial Open Source applications. </p>
<p>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. </p>
<dl>
<dt>Homepage</dt>
<dd> <a href="http://live.osgeo.org" class="external free"
title="http://live.osgeo.org" rel="nofollow">http://live.osgeo.org</a>
</dd>
</dl>
<h2> <span class="mw-headline">Highlights</span></h2>
<ul>
<li> 45 Quality GeoSpatial Open Source applications installed and
pre-configured </li>
<li> Quality free world maps </li>
<li> One page overviews and quick starts for all applications </li>
<li> Overviews of key OGC standards </li>
<li> Translations for Greek, German, Polish, Spanish and Japanese
</li>
</ul>
<h2> <span class="mw-headline">Packages</span></h2>
<ul>
<li> 52º North SOS (Sensor Observation Service) 3.1.1 </li>
<li> 52º North WPS (Web Processing Service) 2.0 RC6 </li>
<li> AtlasStyler (Feature Style Editor) 1.6 </li>
<li> deegree (Web Services) 2.3 </li>
<li> GDAL/OGR (GeoSpatial Data Translation Tools) 1.7.3 </li>
<li> GeoKettle (Business Intelligence) 3.2.0-20090609 </li>
<li> Geomajas (Browser GIS Client) 1.8 </li>
<li> GeoNetwork (Metadata Catalog) 2.6.3 </li>
<li> Geopublisher (Electronic Library Manager) 1.6 </li>
<li> GeoServer (Web Service) 2.1rc1 </li>
<li> GMT (Generic Mapping Tools) 4.5.1 </li>
<li> GpsDrive (GPS Navigation Software) 2.11 </li>
<li> GRASS GIS (Fully featured GIS) 6.4.0 </li>
<li> gvSIG Desktop (Desktop GIS) 1.10 </li>
<li> Kosmo Desktop (Desktop GIS) 2.0 </li>
<li> Mapbender (Geoportal Framework) 2.7 </li>
<li> MapFish (Web Mapping Framework) 2.0 </li>
<li> MapGuide Open Source (Web Service) 2.2.0 </li>
<li> Mapnik (Cartographic rendering engine) 0.7.0 </li>
<li> MapServer (Web Service) 5.6.6 </li>
<li> MapTiler (Tiled Map Publishing) 1.0beta2 </li>
<li> Marble (3D desktop globe) 0.9.5 </li>
<li> MB-System (Sea floor mapping) 5.2.1880 </li>
<li> OpenCPN (Marine GPS navigation) 2.3.1 </li>
<li> OpenJUMP GIS (Desktop GIS) 1.4.0.1 </li>
<li> OpenLayers (Browser GIS Client) 2.10 </li>
<li> osgEarth (Terrain rendering toolkit) 2.0 </li>
<li> OpenStreetMap (Tools for mapping the world) 3751 </li>
<li> OSSIM (Image Processing) 1.8.10 </li>
<li> OTB - ORFEO Toolbox Library (Image Processing) 3.8.0 </li>
<li> pgRouting (GIS Tools) 1.05 </li>
<li> PostGIS (Spatial Database) 1.5.2 </li>
<li> Prune (GPS Track Editing) 10-1 Lucid </li>
<li> Quantum GIS (Desktop GIS) 1.6.0 </li>
<li> QGIS mapserver (Web Service) 1.6.0 </li>
<li> Rasdaman (Multi-Dimensional Raster Database) 8.1 </li>
<li> R Spatial (Statistical Programming) 2.12.1 </li>
<li> SAGA (Desktop GIS) 2.0.5 </li>
<li> Sahana (Disaster management) Eden 0.5.3 </li>
<li> SpatiaLite (Spatial Database) 2.4 </li>
<li> uDig (Desktop GIS) 1.2.0 </li>
<li> Ushahidi (Crowd Sourced Event Mapping) 2.0.1 </li>
<li> Viking (Manage and plot GPS data) 0.9.9 </li>
<li> ZOO Project (Web Processing Service) 1.2.0 </li>
<li> zyGrib (Weather forecasting) 3.9.9.1 </li>
</ul>
<h2> <span class="mw-headline"> Credits </span></h2>
<p>Over 60 people have directly helped with OSGeo-Live packaging,
documenting and translating, and thousands have been involved in
building the packaged software. </p>
<p>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, Juan Lucas Domínguez
Rubio, 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 </p>
<p>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 </p>
<p>Sponsoring institutions: </p>
<p>LISAsoft provides sustaining resources and staff toward the
management and packaging of software onto the Live DVD. <a
href="http://www.lisasoft.com" class="external free"
title="http://www.lisasoft.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.lisasoft.com</a>
</p>
<p>Information Center for the Environment at the University of
California, Davis provides hardware resources and development
support to the OSGeo Live project. <a
href="http://ice.ucdavis.edu" class="external free"
title="http://ice.ucdavis.edu" rel="nofollow">http://ice.ucdavis.edu</a>
</p>
<p>The DebianGIS and UbuntuGIS teams provide and quality-assure many
of the core packages. </p>
<p>The Australian Government's Office of Spatial Data Management
sponsored reviews of software marketing documentation. <a
href="http://www.osdm.gov.au" class="external free"
title="http://www.osdm.gov.au" rel="nofollow">http://www.osdm.gov.au</a>
</p>
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Cameron Shorter
Geospatial Solutions Manager
Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050
Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254
Think Globally, Fix Locally
Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.lisasoft.com">http://www.lisasoft.com</a>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Cameron Shorter
Geospatial Solutions Manager
Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050
Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254
Think Globally, Fix Locally
Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.lisasoft.com">http://www.lisasoft.com</a>
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