Still catching up the geonews that showed up during our holiday break, here’s the open source / open data geonews in batch mode.
Open source geospatial software:
- Desktop virtual globes on their way out? Here’s WebGL Earth 2, “Open-source virtual planet web application running in any web browser with support for WebGL HTML5 standard”
- There’s Geocolor that we haven’t mentioned before, the web-based Geocolor classifies data contained in geojson properties, and assigns color values based on the simplestyle-spec
- AsterixDB is an open source Big Data Management System that has some spatial functions
- MapGuide Open Source 2.6 has been released
- The open source disaster event mapping system is discussed over Slashdot, Ushahidi Helps Track Everything From Election Violence to Oil Spills (Video)
- There’s a new PostGIS Minimalist X3D Viewer for PHP and ASP.NET
- If you can’t wait to test OpenLayers 3, Build applications using OpenLayers 3 and OpenGeo Suite (Part 1)
- If you need a proxy, New MapProxy 1.7.0 release
- Updates, GeoServer 2.5.2 released and GeoTools 11.2 released
Open data:
- O’Reilly have an article on the Ten years of OpenStreetMap
- With that, look how impressive we’ve done thanks to the OSM Then And Now website comparing OSM with today’s
- Does its data stay fresh? Yes, here’s The Average Age of OpenStreetMap Objects
- And yes, OpenStreetMap now has ‘Corporate Members’
- OpenAerialMap is being rebooted thanks to new major supporters
- All buildings in there now, San Francisco complete in OpenStreetMap
- Here’s how to Generate maps of sun and shade from OpenStreetMap data
- Thanks to open data, we now have OpenBeerMap
- Environment Canada added the global ‘Dominant precipitation type’ WMS layer to the long list of live and forecast weather layers available in WMS [disclaimer; I’m involved]
- Styles for everyone, QGIS Ordnance Survey Opendata Cartographic Styles
- If you need a high-resolution DEM dataset, 5 meter elevation model of Vienna published
Everything else open:
- OpenScienceMap is a platform to enable researchers to collaborate
- Using the open source CartoDB, CartoDB launched a tool to easily map geotagged tweets around the world
- A webinar from Penn State planned for September 4th, Learning Open Web Mapping from Start to Finish
- That’s really geogeeky, Turning an android device into a GIS workstation or server
- In France, the government launched GeoRisques, basically, providing multi-risk assessment for any location in France
- A conference in Asia, Geospatial open source FOSS4G-Asia conference to be held in Bangkok Dec 2-5