New web site for the GeoBI Initiative!

A new web site for the GeoBI Initiative is out!

Visit it at www.geobi.org.

GeoKettle: new version to download!

A new version of GeoKettle (2.0) has been released!

GeoKettle now benefits from Geospatial capabilities also for advanced processing thanks to Sextante plugin as well as other mature, robust and well know Open Source libraries like JTS, GeoTools, deegree, OGR.

Try it now!

GeoBI case studies

Two post-graduate degree thesis in Computer Science Engineering, supported by GeoBI initiative and the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Padua (Italy), have been focused on Location Intelligence in Open Source environment:

• Competitive Intelligence nella Pubblica Amministrazione: il caso dell'e-Government - Giovanni Minelle (in Italian)
• Location Intelligence: sviluppo del cruscotto di gestione dell'e-Government Intelligence di Regione Veneto con software open source - Alessio De Rossi (in Italian)

OGC WFS accepted as ISO Standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announced that the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) has approved the OGC Web Feature Service (WFS) Interface standard as an International Standard.

Other main ISO standards approved for GeoSpatial applications\services\data are:

• ISO19125-1:2004 (Geographic information - Simple Feature Access - Part 1: Common Architecture);
  
• ISO 19125-2:2004 (Geographic information - Simple feature access - Part 2: SQL Option);
• ISO 19128 Web Map Service (WMS);
• ISO 19136 (Geographic information - Geography Markup Language (GML).

new license for Mapfish framework

The new version 2.1 of Mapfish framework*, also used in SpagoBIGeoReportEngine, has been released. The re-licensing from GPL to BSD is an important feature in order to include the library in a lot of both commercial and open source applications!

Here, all the changes.
Here, new documentation.

* Camptocamp is a GeoBI initiative member