Category Archives: english

Building up gvSIG Community in UK

Posted on 10/02/2011 by adelrey

Over the last two years the gvSIG Project has participated at the OSGIS (Open Source GIS UK (OSGIS) Conference Series at the Centre for Geospatial Science (CGS) of the University of Nottingham. The OSGIS conference series has a strong international … Continue reading →

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Happy birthday OSGeo!

Posted on 04/02/2011 by Mario

The gvSIG Team is proud to congratulate the Open Source Geospatial Foundation on its 5th birthday. We are on the same trip to promote free software and knowledge so OSGeo successes are ours too. Happy birthday!!

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Setting up a planet

Posted on 25/01/2011 by Mario

One of the most important elements of any free software project is its community, that is the companies, entities, users and developers working and using gvSIG products and technologies. Planets are a great way to aggregate all the blogging activity … Continue reading →

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From gvSIG Desktop to Inskcape

Posted on 25/11/2010 by Mario

I want to share an interesting post from Anna Hodgkinson on the gvSIG international mailing list about how to edit a gvSIG produced map layout on Inskcape using PDF format as an exchange format. Dear Wolfgang, dear list, I have been … Continue reading →

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KML 2.2 for gvSIG

Posted on 22/10/2010 by csanper

Project Introduction Nowadays, KML it’s an OGC standard vectorial format hardly used because it has the very known Google support. As far as now, gvSIG is using GPE “Geographic Markup Language Persistent Engine ” library. This library is based on the … Continue reading →

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Social media on gvSIG

Posted on 05/10/2010 by Mario

I’ve used twitter and facebook for a while more or less mixing personal and professional stuff because, well, I don’t want to deal with «where to write things», I have enough with all blogs I write for. Some time ago … Continue reading →

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Back from Latin American and Caribbean gvSIG conference

Posted on 23/07/2010 by Mario

Last week part of the gvSIG Team attended the Second Latin American and Caribbean gvSIG Conference. It has held in Caracas, Venezuela at Alba Caracas Hotel, organized by the National Information and Technology Centre (CNTI) and the Geographical Institute of … Continue reading →

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gvSIG 1.10: New version and new way to report bugs.

Posted on 10/07/2010 by Manuel

gvSIG 1.10beta has been released with the aim that the gvSIG Community help us to debug it. Users test the software in multiple and variated scenarios, what let us find errors difficult to find in other way. That’s why we … Continue reading →

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gvSIG Community

Posted on 03/06/2010 by Viqui

Hi all, I’m Viqui, from the gvSIG team, and nowadays I’m taking on a new role as community manager. Through this post I want to pass on some points of view about what do we understand as community, and which … Continue reading →

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gvSIG mini as one of the 30 best free apps for Android

Posted on 01/06/2010 by Mario

It’s not me, the guys of TehcRadar have ranked gvSIG mini: An incredibly comprehensive mapping tool which combines many major online maps like Google, Bing, Open Street Map and more, which will win UK fans for one huge reason alone … Continue reading →

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