This new distribution has been added to the existing ones: Windows 32 bits and Linux 32 and 64 bits, as installable and portable versions.

We release this official distribution for users of this operating system for the first time.

More information: https://blog.gvsig.org/2016/09/14/towards-gvsig-2-3-portable-distribution-for-mac-os-x/ 

GDAL: projections and raster access library

From this version we use GDAL as projections and raster information access library.

One of the consequences of this change is the access to lots of new formats (MID/MIF de Mapinfo, Geojson, CityGML, etc.) through GDAL.

More information: in: https://blog.gvsig.org/2016/03/08/on-the-road-to-gvsig-2-3-new-available-formats-ogr-gdal/

New installer with 64 bits support

More efficient support for multigeometries

Java 8 support

PRJ format (projections) reading and writing

It is a file that is attached to an information layer (shapefile, raster…) that has information about its coordinates reference system.

More information:

https://blog.gvsig.org/2016/03/08/on-the-road-to-gvsig-2-3-read-and-write-prj-files-projections/

R statistics library support through Renjin or integrating R directly.

More information:

https://blog.gvsig.org/2016/03/17/running-r-source-code-from-gvsig-2-3-through-renjin/

and here:

https://blog.gvsig.org/2016/09/29/towards-gvsig-2-3-r-extension

Lots of improvements in scripting

There are a lot of improvements in the Scripting module in gvSIG 2.3. Now it is very easy to develop in gvSIG

More information in these links (posts in Spanish will be translated soon):

https://blog.gvsig.org/2016/09/06/towards-gvsig-2-3-new-integration-at-the-scripting-libraries/

https://blog.gvsig.org/2016/08/31/camino-a-gvsig-2-3-compatibilidad-y-cambios-en-scripts/

https://blog.gvsig.org/2016/09/01/camino-a-gvsig-2-3-ejemplo-de-script-con-la-nueva-implementacion/

https://blog.gvsig.org/2016/09/05/camino-a-gvsig-2-3-insertar-nuevos-geoprocesos-mediante-scripting/

https://blog.gvsig.org/2016/09/12/camino-a-gvsig-2-3-nuevas-funcionalidades-en-el-scripting-composer/

https://blog.gvsig.org/2016/09/20/camino-a-gvsig-2-3-autoarranque-de-scripts-al-iniciar-gvsig/

Tool to work with this spatial reference method in which the positions of the elements are referred to measurements along a linear element.

This ability involves a set of tools that let define routes, calibrate each route from the milestones, edit the M coordinate of an element, depict it and generate new layers that support dynamic segmentation.

More information in these links:

https://blog.gvsig.org/2015/11/24/on-the-road-to-gvsig-2-3-dynamic-segmentation-lrs-i/

https://blog.gvsig.org/2016/02/18/on-the-road-to-gvsig-2-3-dynamic-segmentation-ii/

https://blog.gvsig.org/2016/02/22/on-the-road-to-gvsig-2-3-dynamic-segmentation-iii/

https://blog.gvsig.org/2016/02/26/on-the-road-to-gvsig-2-3-dynamic-segmentation-iv/

https://blog.gvsig.org/2016/02/27/on-the-road-to-gvsig-2-3-dynamic-segmentation-v/

https://blog.gvsig.org/2016/02/27/on-the-road-to-gvsig-2-3-dynamic-segmentation-vi-and-final/

https://blog.gvsig.org/2016/02/29/on-the-road-to-gvsig-2-3-dynamic-segmentation-in-4-videos/

Google Maps, Bing Maps and Street View

Possibility to add Google Maps and Bing Maps map services.

Access to Google Street View.

More information: https://blog.gvsig.org/2016/06/22/towards-gvsig-2-3-bing-maps-google-maps-and-google-street-view/ 

LiDAR data support in .LAS format

More information: https://blog.gvsig.org/2016/06/20/towards-gvsig-2-3-lidar-data/

A wizard makes CSV loading easy, as table as well as layer

More information: https://blog.gvsig.org/2016/08/08/towards-gvsig-2-3-csv-wizard-importer/

New editing tools

Editing module continues improving with 3 new tools: change sense, curve to polyline, and parallel line.

Plugin that allows to configure and create gvSIG distributions automatically for any operating system, customizing its working, OGC services, EPSG, appearance…

3D View improvements

2D to 3D views reprojection support

Vector data support in 3D views

3D animations

Extrusion

More information:

https://blog.gvsig.org/2016/06/20/towards-gvsig-2-3-reproject-2d-view-into-a-3d-view/

http://jgrasstechtips.blogspot.com.es/2016/06/extrusion-for-3d-vector-view-in-gvsig.html

Possibility to view 3D Views in Anaglyph mode.

More information:

https://blog.gvsig.org/2016/09/09/towards-gvsig-2-3-anaglyph/

Animations

Animations generator for 3D Views.

More information: https://blog.gvsig.org/2016/09/06/towards-gvsig-2-3-3d-animations/

Cadastre browser (Spain)

Users in Spain will be able to look for parcels by cadastral reference or location.

More information: https://blog.gvsig.org/2016/06/02/camino-a-gvsig-2-3-buscador-de-referencias-catastrales-espana/

We will have a dataset catalogue with the cartography that we usually use, and they will be able to be loaded in our Views in a quick way.

More information: https://blog.gvsig.org/2016/09/20/towards-gvsig-2-3-bookmarks/

Automatic detection of heights

Building detection and height comparative between layers from LiDAR data

Online documentation available for users and developers