OSGeo-Live 11.0 has been released! It has been a major reboot, with a refocus on leading applications and emphasis on quality over quantity. Less mature parts of the projects have been dropped with a targeted focus placed on upgrading and improving documentation. There is now support for isohybrid ISO images with UEFI

52°North’s latest SOS version is now available on OSGeo-Live!

The 52°North SOS 4.4.0 facilitates European air quality data reporting and exchange. New features include:

• INSPIRE Download Service implementation
  • Technical Guidance for implementing download services using the OGC Sensor Observation Service and ISO 19143 Filter Encoding
  • Guidelines for the use of Observations & Measurements and Sensor Web Enablement-related standards in INSPIRE (D2.9)
  • Inspire Specialized Observations
• Hierarchical offering (similar to hierarchical procedure)
• New Operations
  • InsertFeatureOfInterest
  • DeleteResultTemplate
• Support for insertion of procedure types
• UVF encoding
• netCDF encoding
• Insertion of “up-to-date” sample data that can be simply used by the build-in Helgoland Client
  • The SOS example requests are still for the test data!
• More details on new features and implemented bugfixes can be found in the release notes.

OSGeo-Live is a self-contained bootable DVD, USB flash drive and Virtual Machine based upon Lubuntu Linux (version 16.04 LTS). OSGeo-Live is pre-configured with a wide variety of robust open source geospatial software. All applications can be tried without installing anything on your computer, simply by booting the computer from a DVD or USB drive, or running in a Virtual Machine environment. Each featured package is accompanied by both a publication quality one page descriptive summary and a short tutorial on how to get started using it.

With this version, you can run instances of the following 52°North service implementations:

• 52°North SOS version 4.4.0 Just go to Geospatial → Web Services → Start 52°North SOS to start testing. Firefox will open with three tabs:
  • a client to test the SOS
  • a quick start page to get things started
  • a documentation page about the 52°North SOS implementation
• 52°North WPS version 3.6.1 Just go to Geospatial → Web Services → Start 52°North WPS to start testing:
  • a simple client to test the WPS
  • a quick start page to get things started
  • a documentation page about the 52°North WPS implementation

Just give it a try and test a lot of geospatial applications without installing any of them. The OSGeo Live DVD contains software for the following categories, and it is all FOSS:

• Browser Clients
• Domain Specific GIS
• Data Stores
• Desktop GIS
• Navigation and Maps
• Spatial Tools
• Web Services