GeoTools

Batch Geonews: Debacle over OGC and the GeoServices REST API Standard, OpenLayers vs Leaflet, More Geo from Google I/O, and much more

The recent geonews in batch mode, covering a larger timespan than usual.

On the open source front:

On the Google front:

On the Esri front:

In the everything-else category:

Slashdot discussed a few minor geo-related stories:

In the maps category:

Batch Geonews: Google Earth 7.1 Released, OpenSnowMap.org, OpenPOIs, MapBox.js 1.0, and much more

Here's the recent geonews in batch mode.

On the open source front:

On the Google front:

In the everything-else category:

In the maps category:

GeoTools 9.0 Released

[this story was submitted by a user as a press release (thanks!), I'm republishing it as a story too since it's a pertinent major release]

The GeoTools community is pleased to announce the availability of GeoTools 9.0 for download from sourceforge:

This release is also deployed to our OSGeo Maven Repository.

This is the first stable release of the 9.x series made in conjunction with the GeoServer 2.3.0 release. This release represents the successful transition of the project to a six month timed release cycle.

This release contains mostly bug fixes since 9.0-RC1. Please see the change log for more details.

Here is a summary of the major news in the 9.x series:

  • Feature Collection Clean up: we have retired several methods from FeatureCollection that were only applicable for in memory feature collections. A Quality Assurance review was performed on all FeatureCollection implementations resulting in a great improvement on consistency. Thanks to Jody Garnett and Andrea Aime for this work.
  • The Vector Grid module has graduated from the "unsupported" staging area and is now included as an extension. Thanks to Micheal Bedward for championing this work.
  • General support for complex features has been factored out into the gt-complex module for reuse.
  • FeatureCollection, FeatureIteartor and FeatureReader are Java 7 ready with support for try-with-resource syntax.
  • Partial 3D data support has been added with direct support for PostGIS, Oracle, and Property DataStore. Thanks to Andrea Aime for the initial implementation, with a follow-up funded by NTLIS for Oracle support.
  • Thanks to Niels Charlier for putting together ReferenceEnvelope3D allowing us to query three-dimensional datasets.
  • WMS client support has greatly improved with WMS 1.3.0 now enabled by default during version negotiation. Thanks to LISAsoft and the OGC for supporting this work.
  • New OGC models have been added for WCS 2.0 and OWS 2.0 along with XML support.
  • Updated to use the latest ImageIO-Ext 1.1.6 and JTS 1.13 releases

The GeoTools 9.0 series contains API changes. Developers are encouraged to review the upgrade instructions prior to use.

If you missed the previous milestones, betas and RCs you can have a look at the complete set of improvements provided by the 9.0 series here:

Thanks for using GeoTools!

 

GeoTools 2.9.0 Released

The GeoTools community is pleased to announce the availability of GeoTools 9.0 for download from sourceforge:

This release is also deployed to our OSGeo Maven Repository.

This is the first stable release of the 9.x series made in conjunction with the GeoServer 2.3.0 release. This release represents the successful transition of the project to a six month timed release cycle.

This release contains mostly bug fixes since 9.0-RC1. Please see the change log for more details.

Here is a summary of the major news in the 9.x series:

  • Feature Collection Clean up: we have retired several methods from FeatureCollection that were only applicable for in memory feature collections. A Quality Assurance review was performed on all FeatureCollection implementations resulting in a great improvement on consistency. Thanks to Jody Garnett and Andrea Aime for this work.
  • The Vector Grid module has graduated from the "unsupported" staging area and is now included as an extension. Thanks to Micheal Bedward for championing this work.
  • General support for complex features has been factored out into the gt-complex module for reuse.
  • FeatureCollection, FeatureIteartor and FeatureReader are Java 7 ready with support for try-with-resource syntax.
  • Partial 3D data support has been added with direct support for PostGIS, Oracle, and Property DataStore. Thanks to Andrea Aime for the initial implementation, with a follow-up funded by NTLIS for Oracle support.
  • Thanks to Niels Charlier for putting together ReferenceEnvelope3D allowing us to query three-dimensional datasets.
  • WMS client support has greatly improved with WMS 1.3.0 now enabled by default during version negotiation. Thanks to LISAsoft and the OGC for supporting this work.
  • New OGC models have been added for WCS 2.0 and OWS 2.0 along with XML support.
  • Updated to use the latest ImageIO-Ext 1.1.6 and JTS 1.13 releases

The GeoTools 9.0 series contains API changes. Developers are encouraged to review the upgrade instructions prior to use.

If you missed the previous milestones, betas and RCs you can have a look at the complete set of improvements provided by the 9.0 series here:

Thanks for using GeoTools!

 

Open Source Geonews: OSM2GIS, OSGeo-Live 6.5, OSGeo Board Priorities, OpenBlock Project, JTS Union VS ArcGIS Dissolve, and much more

Still catching up, here's the recent open source geospatial news.

New software:

Software updates front:

Everything else:

GeoTools 8.6 Released

The GeoTools community is pleased to announce the availability of GeoTools 8.6 for download from source forge:

This release is also deployed to the OSGeo Maven Repository. For more information on setting up your project with Maven consult the Quickstart.

About GeoTools 8.6
This is a bug fix release containing fixes and improvements, including:

  • Several fixes in the WFS client, making it work against TinyOWS and ArcGIS WFS server
  • Improvements in usage of filter fuctions from SLD (some functions did not properly convert their arguments from string to numeric)
  • Removed tiling artifacts when rendering oversampled grid coverages
  • Sped up the usage of FIDFilter objects in map rendering

Full details are available in Jira's release notes.

 

Upgrading from GeoTools 2.7

 

For those migrating from GeoTools 2.7, upgrade instructions are available. No additional GeoTools 2.7 released are scheduled. Thanks for using GeoTools, and Enjoy!
The GeoTools Community
http://geotools.org

GeoTools 8.5 released

The GeoTools community is pleased to announce the availability of GeoTools 8.5 for download from source forge

This release is also deployed to the OSGeo Maven Repository. For more information on setting up your project with Maven consult the Quickstart.

About GeoTools 8.5

This is a bug fix release containing a number of fixes and improvements, including:

  • several fixes to rendering transformations allowing several transformations to be chained together  in the same rendering request (e.g., interpolate values from discrete points and then also extract isolines from it)
  • fixes to date/time handling in CQL
  • spotted and fixed a deadlock in the rendering subsystem happening if the renderer gets abruptly stopped while working against a very fast data source (or a very slow Graphics2D implementation)
  • a new PullParser class allowing for better streaming parsing of large amounts of XML (e.g., GML, KML)
  • better handling of raster "no data" during reprojection, avoiding border artifacts in the results
  • a new Oracle specific filter function exposing Oracle spatials's K nearest neighbor search

Full details are available in Jira's release notes.

Upgrading from GeoTools 2.7

For those migrating from GeoTools 2.7, upgrade instructions are available. No additional GeoTools 2.7 released are scheduled. 

Thanks for using GeoTools, and Enjoy!

The GeoTools Community 

http://geotools.org

FOSS4G Geonews: GeoServer CSS vs SLD, Cesium, SplashMaps, Open Bank Project Maps, and more

Here's the recent FOSS4G geonews.

In open source software updates:

In the everything else category:

Batch Geonews: OpenLayers Cookbook Reviews, Wearable LiDAR, More Apple Maps News, Most Expensive Cities Map, and much more

Here's the recent geonews in batch mode, covering a way too long time-span.

On the open source / open data front:

On the Esri front:

On the Microsoft front:

Geo-related stories discussed over Slashdot:

More on Apple Maps from MacRumors and APB:

In the miscellaneous category:

In the maps category:

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