gvSIG 2.3, the new gvSIG version, is now available to download. According to the gvSIG association, this version has been a qualitative leap — on a functional level as well as an architecture one — because of all the improvements and features. Downloads are available from the project website, and there are two distribitions: installable and portable. Features of this version... read more
Presentations and videos from the first gvSIG Festival are now available online. The festival — a virtual conference about free geomatics — was held May 23-27, offering 25 presentations in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish and Russian. All of the presentation material is now available, as well as recordings of every session. The material can be filtered by language. The festival was sponsored by... read more
A unique multi-language event will take place May 23-27. The first gvSIG Festival will host more than 20 webinars in different languages, bringing together GIS professionals from all corners of the world. For this first virtual festival, colleagues of the gvSIG community will discuss experiences related to the gvSIG technology (gvSIG Desktop, Online, Roads, etc.). For the next edition, gvSIG will open a period for sending proposals... read more
The first gvSIG 2.2 Release Candidate (gvSIG 2.2 RC1) is now available for download. The gvSIG project team is asking for the gvSIG community to help test and debug version 2.2 as soon as possible so the final version can be released. The gvSIG team encourages users to test the software and send them any errors and suggestions in the users mailing list. The main... read more
Presentations, posters and articles presented at the 10th International gvSIG Conference are now available online. The conference was held Dec. 3-5, 2014, in Valencia, Spain. Videos of sessions and workshops are also available online. All of the videos are available with both English and Spanish audio, except for three workshops given on Wednesday and Thursday that are only in Spanish. “With this publishing,... read more
The gvSIG Association has published the final version of gvSIG 2.1. This is the first version based on the new architecture oriented to users, and offers many new features, the association said. Besides the new functionalities and the correction of a great number of errors that were detected through community collaboration, the association wants to highlight the availability of a distribution for Linux 64... read more
On the coattails of last week’s Geospatial Solutions newsletter outlining the United Nations’ five- to ten-year vision on geospatial information management, and my column on the mobile device operating system war, here are some more thoughts on those subjects. As the cost of GIS data collection devices (handheld, tablet) has plummeted in the past two years and smartphones have proliferated, the quest for inexpensive... read more
