Category Archives: english

gvSIG at FOSS4G 2016

Posted on 04/07/2016 by dispiste

The FOSS4G 2016 is just around the corner and the gvSIG Association will be there with three presentations and two workshops (plus the code sprint!). As you might know, the FOSS4G is the most important international Free and Open Source … Continue reading →

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Another big lie: interoperability without open source software

Posted on 30/06/2016 by Mario

The interoperability concept is currently on everyone’s tongue. Everything has to be interoperable. It’s necessary, it’s ideal, it’s legal. Implementation of an IT system or solution wouldn’t come to mind to anybody. Or, at least, consciously. But, what is the … Continue reading →

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How to solve the problem about label and symbol size when exporting to PDF file in gvSIG

Posted on 28/06/2016 by Mario

When we create a layout in gvSIG, and we export it to PDF format or we print it, we sometimes can see that labels that we had added to the different elements of the map appear in a different size … Continue reading →

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Towards gvSIG 2.3: Bing Maps, Google Maps and Google Street View

Posted on 22/06/2016 by Giuliano Ramat

Let’s have a look to a couple of new features that will be included in next release gvSIG 2.3. Users will have access to data from Bing Maps and Google Maps, being able to select between different geographic information types they offer. Although it … Continue reading →

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Towards gvSIG 2.3: LiDAR data

Posted on 20/06/2016 by Giuliano Ramat

In gvSIG 2.3 users will be able to access a new source of data that has been using more and more, the LiDAR data. gvSIG 2.3 drivers provide to read and write LiDAR in gvSIG according to LAS specification. A cropping tool will be … Continue reading →

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Towards gvSIG 2.3: Reproject 2D View into a 3D View

Posted on 20/06/2016 by Giuliano Ramat

In the next coming release of gvSIG 2.3, several improvements (and very striking) related to 3D views will be provided. One of the most important one will be the possibility to reproject a 2D view 3D view. In gvSIG 2.2 3D Views can … Continue reading →

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Counter for identical registers in a field, using Scripting in gvSIG

Posted on 17/06/2016 by Mario

If we have an attribute table in gvSIG we can obtain the number of registers for each different value of a field, how many times they are repeated. For that we will have to create a new script in gvSIG, … Continue reading →

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From Aaron Swartz to the access to the free scientific knowledge

Posted on 07/06/2016 by mjlobato76

In Europe we are very grateful because the ministers of Competitiveness of the European Union (EU)gave recently their support to all European articles, publicly funded or public-private are accessible free of charge for 2020. Thus, the member states of the … Continue reading →

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1st gvSIG Festival. Presentations and videos are now available

Posted on 31/05/2016 by Mario

We would like to inform you of the availability of presentations presented during the 1st gvSIG Festival, which was held from May 23rd to 27th. This gvSIG Festival was a virtual conference about free geomatics with 25 presentations in English, … Continue reading →

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gvSIG Festival: Fifth Day [Videos]

Posted on 27/05/2016 by Alvaro

Monitoring Global Urban Expansion: Assessing the quality of urban layouts (English) [Manuel Madrid. gvSIG Association] ONG2.0 formación en gvSig e ICT4D para proyectos de cooperación internacional (Spanish) [Valeria Sanguineti, Giuliano Ramat. ONG2.0] See you next gvSIG Festival!!

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