GeoKettle on Sourceforge portal

The GeoKettle project now relies on the project hosting infrastructure offered by Sourceforge. You can access the project on the Sourceforge portal.
Among other things, you will now be able to access to the svn repository of the project and to an issue tracking system.
Note that a new version (3.2.0-20090609) of GeoKettle has just been released.




What is new since release 3.1.0-20081103?

• The GeoKettle extensions were ported to the new Pentaho Data Integration (PDI) version 3.2.0-stable. As such, this release of GeoKettle includes all the improvements from the new PDI version.
• Added a "GIS File Output" step. At present, this step supports the writing of Shapefiles
• Added support for Spatial Reference Systems (SRS). SRS metadata was added to ValueMeta for Geometry fields. Steps allowing to set a SRS ("Set SRS") and transform coordinates (reproject) of geometries from one SRS to another ("SRS Transformation") have also been developed. The SRS support is based on GeoTools' implementation of coordinate reference systems (org.opengis.referencing package)
• In line with SRS support, SRS metadata for PostGIS and Oracle Spatial DBMS is retrieved and written when reading/writing geometry columns. To conform to integrity constraints when writing to a geometry column, one must ensure that the SRS in GeoKettle matches the one defined for the geometry column in the DBMS.
• Reading and writing SRS metadata (in the form of .PRJ files containing WKT definitions of SRS) is also supported when reading/writing Shapefiles in the GIS File Input/Output stepsUpdated GeoTools libraries to version 2.5.5 and JTS to version 1.10