Archive for the ‘GIS’ Category

QGIS 1.0 ‘Kore’

Monday, January 26th, 2009

Už je to sice dva týdny, takže trochu s křížkem po funuse, ale přece: vyšla nová verze QGISu -- prohlížečky geodat s rozhraním ne nepodobným ArcView 3.x (budiž mu křemíkové nebe lehké). QGIS je pořád ještě asi nejsnazší cesta pro mnoho lidí, jak dostat GRASS na Windows, díky zásuvnému modulu GRASS ...

PyWPS and Ka-Map video

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

Fabio Andres Herrera has produced this interesting video. The resolution could be better, so we just have to beleave him, that it is ...a test pilot for OGC WPS 1.0.0 specification, using PyWPS 3.0.0 over Ka-Map Framework as a thing client [1] Impressing. [1] http://lists.wald.intevation.org/pipermail/pywps-devel/2009-January/000477.html

GRASS 7 icons

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

In current grass_trunk development branch of GRASS GIS, new icon set is arrived (thanks to Robert Szczepanek). Now, you can have three sets of GRASS Icons at once: grass, silk, grass2. If you want to use them, just start the wx-python gui (GRASS 7.x), and Config->Preferences->Advanced and set the Icon ...

Revitalising UbuntuGIS

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

Ubuntu GIS is project, which was most active year or two ago. It happened, that most of the team members left and now, GIS Packages in Ubuntu are far from ,,hot``. Recently, new UbuntuGIS mailing list was created. More people were asking, how they could help. We hope, that in the ...

GRASS 6.4 — comming soon!

Sunday, December 21st, 2008

Long awaited GRASS 6.4.x branch was created in subversion repository two days ago! This new version will bring tons of improvements as well as brand new modules. New wxPython GUI should became THE GRASS GUI and should replace old Tcl/Tk-based one, which brings (among others), new NVIZ ...

HSLayers,MapFish and others

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

OpenLayers OpenLayers is JavaScript library for displaying geographic data in web browsers. It became very popular last years, since it is very easy to use and looks cool. With OpenLayers, it is possible to manage all kind of OGC Services (WMS, WFS, ...) and proprietary maps (such as Google Maps, Yahoo ...

GDAL 1.6.0

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

Vyšel GDAL 1.6.0. Mezi zajímavé novinky patří zejména: Ovladače BLX Magellan Topo Driver EIR Erdas Imagine Raw Driver Oracle GeoRaster Driver GRIB Driver (součást standardní distribuce) ...

PyWPS 3.0.0

Friday, November 7th, 2008

It took us more then one and half year, but finally, it is here: PyWPS 3.0.0 with support for WPS 1.0.0. The code structure has been completely rewritten. We use python-htmltml templating system now. You can setup several environment variables and so, you can configure many WPS servers ...

GRASS 6.3 for Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex 8.10

Friday, October 31st, 2008

Packages of current stable release of GRASS GIS are from now available in Les-ejk's Ubuntu repository. There is one (known to me) issue with the new wxPython-based gui. However, you can use the old Tcl/Tk GUI without problems. Please let me know, in case, you find any bug. Happy #ging!

Mapy pro vaši Garminu

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

Už jsem tady psal o projektu OpenStreetMap, který podpořil nějakými daty také můj zaměstnavatel. Velmi zkráceně: projektu jde o to, zmapovat svět, a používá k tomu nic prostšího, než volně dostupná data a hlavně GPSky, podle jejichž logů jsou potom mapy kresleny. Jak ale dostat mapy do vaší GPSky? Možností je ...