[Freegis-updates] NCAR Graphics

2011-04-06 Thread freegis

Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: NCAR Graphics

Updated by: michael (2011-01-16 15:26:05)

Homepage:http://ngwww.ucar.edu/
Version: 5.2.1

ChangeLog:
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New version, previous was 4.2.3. New functions: 'wrf_updraft_helicity' - 
Calculates updraft helicity from WRF model output. Updates to GRIB1/GRIB2 
reader: Added support for reading (NCEP) Climate Forecast System Reanalysis 
(CFSR): 1979-2010 files * Updated ability to read WAFS upper-air forecasts in 
GRIB2 code form.


Description:

NCAR Graphics Software is comprised of a library containing
  Fortran/C utilities for drawing contours, maps, vectors,
  streamlines, weather maps, surfaces, histograms, X/Y plots,
  annotations, an ANSI/ISO standard version of GKS, a math library containing a 
collection of 1,2,3-D interpolators and approximators,
  applications for displaying, editing, and manipulating graphical output,
  map databases, many FORTRAN and C examples.


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[Freegis-updates] Interactive Mapping of Geoscientific Datasets

2011-04-06 Thread freegis

Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: Interactive Mapping of Geoscientific 
Datasets

Updated by: michael (2011-01-16 11:20:57)

Homepage:http://earth.usc.edu/~becker/projects.i.html
Version: 1.2-20080724

ChangeLog:
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New Website (old one was: http://www.seismology.harvard.edu/~becker/igmt). New 
version (previous was 1.2.20070325).


Description:

iGMT provides a graphical user interface and was built using the Tcl/Tk 
computer language. Besides supplying a user friendly way of handling GMT, iGMT 
comes with built-in support for many different geoscientific data sets, such as 
topography, gravity, seafloor age, hypocenter catalogs, plate boundary files, 
hotspot lists, CMT solutions etc.


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[Freegis-updates] OGR

2011-04-06 Thread freegis

Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: OGR

Updated by: michael (2011-01-16 11:04:32)

Homepage:http://www.gdal.org/ogr
Version: 1.8.0

ChangeLog:
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New drivers: AeronavFAA, ArcObjects, GPSBabel, HTF, LIBKML, MSSQLSpatial, NAS, 
OpenAir, PDS, PGDump, SOSI, SUA, WFS. * Significantly improved drivers: DXF, GML


Description:

The OGR Simple Features Library is a C++ open source library
 (and commandline tools) providing read (and sometimes write) access to a 
variety of vector file formats including ESRI Shapefiles, and Mapinfo mid/mif 
and TAB formats.


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[Freegis-updates] Geographic Resources Analysis Support System

2011-04-06 Thread freegis

Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: Geographic Resources Analysis Support 
System

Updated by: michael (2011-01-16 08:33:15)

Homepage:http://grass.osgeo.org/
Version: 6.4.1RC1

ChangeLog:
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Updating GRASS to the current stable version.


Description:

GRASS GIS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System)
is a Free Software Geographical Information System (GIS)
with raster, topological vector, image processing,
volume voxel management/visualization,
2D/3D vector engine with vector network analysis
and graphics production functionality that operates on
various platforms through shell and a graphical user interface.

p
Books about GRASS:br
a href=http://www.grassbook.org/;Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach/a
  by Markus Neteler and Helena Mitasova (new: 2007)


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[Freegis-updates] MapServer

2011-04-06 Thread freegis

Updated or new entry on FreeGIS.org: MapServer

Updated by: michael (2011-01-16 09:56:30)

Homepage:http://www.mapserver.org/
Version: 5.6.5

ChangeLog:
--
Version update from 5.6.0 to 5.6.5. Several bugfixes


Description:

The heart of UMN MapServer is a CGI-based application for
delivering dynamic GIS and image processing content
via the World-Wide Web (WWW).
The package also contains a number of stand alone
applications for building maps, scalebars and legends offline.
Access to the development environment of MapServer is
possible with a number of different programming languages.


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