Hello, After a lot of work I've prepared a 0.8 release of the Geoinformatica stack of free geospatial software. Geoinformatica is a stack, which is based on GDAL and OGR (through which Proj4, PostGIS, GEOS are available), depends on GTK+ and Cairo to provide visualization and GUI, and uses Perl to glue everything together. Geoinformatica uses also libral for raster algebra.
The core parts of the release are available at http://map.hut.fi/files/Geoinformatica/v0.8/ , the Perl modules are also at CPAN. Besides these at least a new GDAL is more or less required. There's a convenient almost-all-in-one (GTK+ has to downloaded separately but Perl is included) Windows port available at http://map.hut.fi/files/Geoinformatica/win32/ The homepage of Geoinformatica is at http://geoinformatics.tkk.fi/twiki/bin/view/Main/GeoinformaticaSoftware The goal of Geoinformatica is provide a high-level, high-quality and fast programming, CLI and GUI application development environment for geospatial domain. Geoinformatica also contains a simple desktop geospatial data viewer-browser-visualizer-CLI (implemented in ~100 lines of Perl code). I'd be very happy to hear comments, complaints, and suggestions from people who try it out. The Windows port should be very simple to set up and try (install GTK+ from http://gladewin32.sourceforge.net, download latest Geoinformatica.zip, unzip to C:\ and run gui.bat). This release is an intermediate point in a road to 1.0 and contains many issues: - the PostGIS-connection seems to be broken in the Windows port - the APIs, although stabilization has now a high priority, may still change somewhat - the Perl in the Windows-port is in-house compiled MinGW version and MinGW+MSYS is used for other parts as well (including GDAL and its Perl bindings) - visualization is not yet completely Cairo-based, thus for example PDF output is not yet available - the extension mechanisms are not yet very well developed in all cases (extending Geoinformatica with other FOSS libraries and domain-specific toolsets has a high priority) - numerous small details are not as they should be Enjoy, Ari -- Prof. Ari Jolma Geoinformaatio- ja paikannustekniikka / Geoinformation and positioning Teknillinen Korkeakoulu / Helsinki University of Technology tel: +358 9 451 3886 address: POBox 1200, 02015 TKK, Finland Email: ari.jolma at tkk.fi URL: http://www.tkk.fi/~jolma _______________________________________________ Freegis-list mailing list Freegis-list@intevation.de https://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list
