Categoria: OSGeo

  • The OSGeo umbrella

    The Open Source Geospatial Foundation β€’ OSGeo β€’ is an umbrella organization for a lot of free and open source software projects focused on geospatial technology, that is, maps πŸ™‚ Projects range from low-level programming libraries like GDAL/OGR (that is also used by ESRI software) to full-fledged desktop apps like QGIS and gvSIG and powerful…

  • GFOSS news

    I’ve been meaning to do this for a long time now (since 2009 apparently). I am proud to announce the first issue of GFOSS news, a newsletter from and about the GFOSS community with a focus on Italy. The tagline is “software, dati, persone” (software, data, people) and it is exactly like that. It’s a…

  • Total Open Station packaged for OpenSUSE

    Thanks to Angelos Tzotzos (Remote Sensing Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens) Total Open Station has an installable package for OpenSUSE, since a few weeks. Installing is as easy as: $ sudo zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Application:/Geo/openSUSE_12.1/ GEO $ sudo zypper refresh $ sudo zypper install TotalOpenStation Any report about this package will be very welcome. We…

  • 13 aprile: Mapping Party a Portofino

    È il primo in Liguria: per contribuire a creare un’informazione geografica libera e fare una passeggiata all’aria aperta. pagina wiki con i dettagli per l’organizzazione Articolo su Mentelocale.it. Altri mapping parties il 13 aprile in Italia

  • M(‘)appare Milano – campagna di mappatura OpenStreetMap sotto la Madonnina

    M(‘)appare Milano Γ¨ la nuova iniziativa lanciata da GFOSS.it e OpenStreetMap per coinvolgere i mappatori milanesi in micro eventi della durata massima di 3 ore durante i quali si procede alla raccolta dei dati di una zona limitata di territorio. La fase di editing della mappa verrΓ  svolta dai partecipanti al proprio domicilio. Lo scopo…