Archive for the ‘GIS[en]’ Category

Little GRASS hint: Running GRASS without “make install”

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

The problem Sometimes, I was just wondering, why there must be two versions of GRASS in my system, when I compile GRASS from source code: I have source code of GRASS in my /home/jachym/src/grass/grass6/ directory. Every time I download fresh updates and recompile, I have to run make install in order ...

New Ubuntu GIS repository

Monday, November 5th, 2007

You can add deb http://les-ejk.cz/ubuntu gutsy multiverse line into your /etc/apt/sources.list file. What is in there: * Qgis 0.9.0 -- from official QGIS downloads site * GDAL 1.4.2 Number of packages will slowly increase. Please let me know in case of any problems.

GIS Packages for Ubuntu – no longer necessary?

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

Today, I upgraded my system to Ubuntu 7.10 "GutsyGibbon". I find out, that most of the GIS packages, I was providing are available in current repositories: * libgdal1-1.4.0 (version 1.4.1) * proj (version 4.5.0) * mapserver (version 4.10.3) * grass (version 6.2.2) * gpsbabel (version 1.3.3) only qgis is a bit older, because of the qgis ...

PyWPS 2.0.0

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

After a year of development, Python Web Processing Service (PyWPS) 2.0.0 is new stable release, which fixes number of bugs and instabilities in previous 1.0.0 version, as well as adds new functionality. PyWPS implements OGC Web Processing Service 0.4.0 standard. It is developed with native support for GRASS GIS, however, it can be used with ...

PyWPS and OpenLayers

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

This days, I'm playing around with OpenLayers. It is great map client, which can be used to display any type of web-distributed data, including WMS, WFS, MapServer, KML, Google or Yahoo maps, TileCache and many many others. Vector data are displayed using SVG, there is support for vector editing. There ...

New version of GRASS GIS

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

Two days ago, new version of GRASS GIS of number 6.2.2. came out. This is a bugfix release, so no major changes are there. For more, see announcement. You can already download fresh Ubuntu packages from Les-ejk's Ubuntu repository.

wxGRASS: New GRASS GUI – 2.

Monday, May 28th, 2007

GIS Manager GIS Manager has the same functionality, as in previous, Tcl/Tk-based GU. In GIS Manager, you can start all GRASS modules (nearly 350 now days), either from the menu on the top of the window, ...

GIS Packages for Ubuntu 7.04

Saturday, May 26th, 2007

Today, i made the last set of GIS packages for Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn). There are GRASS GIS 6.2.1 (stable) http://grass.itc.it GDAL/OGR 1.4.0 (stable) http://gdal.org PROJ4 4.5.0 (stable) http://proj.maptools.org QGIS 0.8.0 (stable) http://qgis.org GPSBABEL 1.3.3 (stable) http://www.gpsbabel.org UMN MapServer 4.10 (stable) http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu Packages are available for both, i386 and amd64 platforms. Please, let me know, if ...

wxGRASS: New GRASS GUI – 1.

Saturday, May 19th, 2007

Background In the year 2006, users and developers have decided to replace current d.m graphical user interface, which was shipped together with GRASS 6.0 and which was originally written by ...

New r.in.wms

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

GRASS has a module for OGC WMS longer time. Originally r.in.onearth written by Sören was the first. Then I came and scripted first general r.in.wms version and than Cedric Shock came and scripted two or three scripts together, which replaced old r.in.wms code and made it more complex. Personally, I did ...