{"id":1742,"date":"2016-03-26T09:20:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T16:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.light42.com\/wordpress\/?p=1742"},"modified":"2016-03-28T10:13:57","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T17:13:57","slug":"osgeo-live-9-5-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.light42.com\/wordpress\/?p=1742","title":{"rendered":"OSGeo-Live 9.5 Released"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"osgeolive_menu6\"<\/a> The OSGeo Community<\/a> has announced immediate availability of the OSGeo-Live reference distribution of geospatial open-source software, version 9.5. OSGeo-Live<\/b><\/a> is available now as both 32-bit and 64-bit .iso images, as well as a 64-bit Virtual Machine (VM), ready to run. Users across the globe can depend on OSGeo-Live, which includes overview and introductory examples for every major software package on the disk, translated into twelve languages. LINK<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

New Applications:<\/em>
\n\u2022 Project Jupyter<\/strong> (formerly the IPython Notebook)<\/em> with examples
\n\u2022 istSOS<\/strong> – Sensor Observation Service
\n\u2022 NASA World Wind<\/strong> – Desktop Virtual Globe<\/p>\n

Twenty-two geospatial programs have been updated to newer versions, including:<\/p>\n

\u2022 QGIS 2.14 LTR<\/strong> with more than one hundred new features added or improved since the last QGIS LTR release (version 2.8), sponsored by dozens of geospatial data providers, private sector companies and public sector governing bodies around the world.
\n\u2022 MapServer 7.0<\/strong> with major new features, including complex filtering being pushed to the database backends, labeling performance and the ability to render non-latin scripts per layer. See the complete list of new features<\/a>
\n\u2022 Cesium<\/strong> JavaScript library for world-class 3D globes and maps
\n\u2022 PostGIS 2.2<\/strong> with optional SFCGAL geometry engine
\n\u2022 GeoNetwork 3.0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Analytics and Geospatial Data Science:<\/em>
\n\u2022 R<\/strong> geostatistics
\n\u2022 Python<\/strong> reference libraries including Iris, SciPy, PySAL, geoPandas<\/p>\n

About OSGeo-Live<\/h3>\n

OSGeo-Live is a self-contained bootable USB flash drive, DVD and Virtual Machine, pre-installed with robust open source geospatial software, which can be trialled without installing any software.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Over 50 quality geospatial Open Source applications installed and pre-configured
\n\u2022 Free world maps and sample datasets
\n\u2022 Project Overview and step-by-step Quickstart for each application
\n\u2022 Lightning presentation of all applications, along with speaker’s script
\n\u2022 Overviews of key OGC standards
\n\u2022 Translations to multiple languages
\n\u2022 Based upon the rock-solid Lubuntu 14.04 LTS GNU\/Linux distribution, combined with the light-weight LXDE desktop interface for ease of use.<\/p>\n

Homepage: http:\/\/live.osgeo.org<\/a>
\nDownload details: http:\/\/live.osgeo.org\/en\/download.html<\/a>
\nPost release glitches collected here: http:\/\/wiki.osgeo.org\/wiki\/Live_GIS_Disc\/Errata\/9.5<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The OSGeo Community has announced immediate availability of the OSGeo-Live reference distribution of geospatial open-source software, version 9.5. OSGeo-Live is available now as both 32-bit and 64-bit .iso images, as well as a 64-bit Virtual Machine (VM), ready to run. Users across the globe can depend on OSGeo-Live, which includes overview and introductory examples for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.light42.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.light42.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.light42.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.light42.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.light42.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1742"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/blog.light42.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1757,"href":"http:\/\/blog.light42.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions\/1757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.light42.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.light42.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.light42.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}