52°North August News

03 September 2008, 11:04am

A year ago, ITC’s Integrated Land and Water Information System (ILWIS) successfully migrated to the open source scene with ILWIS 3.4 Open. Since then it has enjoyed increasing use in the open source community. We registered 20,000 hits in one year! An increasingly active community has just brought out a new release – ILWIS 3.5 Open. This release provides a more flexible, easy to install, powerful, PC-based GIS and Remote Sensing software package.

ILWIS 3.5 Open

The new modular software package ILWIS 3.5. Open provides enhanced functionality, a plug in architecture for ILWIS extensions, as well as web enablement. It has also been upgraded to a modern development environment.

The new features include:

• ILWIS as an OGC compliant WMS client: visualization of WMS layers (or combinations thereof) as raster maps.
• Calculation tool for Surface Energy Balances (SEBS).
• ILWIS as an MS Visual 2008 project.
• Easy extension of analytical functions (so-called applications and applications UIs) based on a plug-in system.
• Improved possibilities/capabilities for writing server side applications: separation of the user interface and analytical functionality.

SOS passes OGC compliancy test

The Sensor Observation Service release 52N-SOS-3.0.0 successfully passed the OGC CITE testing and is now fully compliant with the new OGC SOS implementation specification (version 1.0.0).

SPS is OGC compliant

The Sensor Planning Service is a reference implementation of the OGC Sensor Planning Service specification (version 1.0.0) and has successfully passed the compliancy testing during the OGC CITE testing. The modular plug-in architecture allows easy integration of new sensor types. The newest release (52N-swe-sps-1.0.0) provides an exemplary plug-in for an Axis network camera.

OX-Framework supports new OGC Web Service types

The current OX-F release has been adapted to provide additional client support for the following OGC web service types:

• SOS (and the affiliated O&M spec) - OGC approved version 1.0.0
• SPS - OGC approved version 1.0.0
• SAS - the latest RFC version
• CSW – OGC approved version 2.0.2 together with ebRIM 3.0
• WCS - OGC approved versions 1.1.1

The entire OX-Framework is also available as a preconfigured eclipse project.

New WPS release candidates

The new Web Processing Service release candidate implements the current OGC WPS 1.0.0. The WPS uDig client and the WPS Jump client plug-ins have also been enhanced. Additional changes since the last version include:

• XML-based configuration
• KML support
• new website, including online javaDoc
• various bugfixes

Downloads:

WPS:
http://52north.org/maven/project-sites/wps/52n-wps-webapp/download.html

WPS uDig client:
http://52north.org/maven/project-sites/wps/52n-wps-client-udig-site/download.html

WPS jump client:
http://52north.org/maven/project-sites/wps/52n-wps-client-jump/

New cooperation partners

52°North proudly announces two new Associate Cooperation Partners:

- The German Federal Waterways Engineering and Research Institute, the BVBS’s Information Technology Center (Bundesanstalt für Wasserbau, Fachstelle der BVBS für Informationstechnik) in Illmenau, Germany and

- the Austrian Research Centers GmbH - ARC in Seibersdorf, Austria.

New repositories

52°North has moved its code from SourceForge to our own Subversion repositories. Please feel free to download current code from the site below.

News Source:
Dipl.-Geogr. Ann Hitchcock
52°North Initiative for Geospatial Open Source Software GmbH
Martin-Luther-King-Weg 24
48155 Münster
Germany
Tel: +49 (0)251 7474 520
Fax: +49 (0)251 7474 530
email: hitchcock@52north.org

ILWIS 3.5 Open download

SOS download

SPS download

OX-F download

52 North code repository

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