GEOVISE - Open Source GIS Solutions

I'm happy to announce the 1.1 release of Hibernate Spatial.

The major improvements are:
- support for Hibernate 3.6.x
- Added Dwithin() and transform() HQL-functions
- added dwithin() and havingSRID() methods to SpatialRestrictions
- Added a SpatialDialect for MySQL InnoDB
... and many more minor improvements and bugfixes.

More information can be found at: http://www.hibernatespatial.org/release_notes.html

Today we released the 1.0 version of Hibernate Spatial. This version supports Postgresql/Postgis, Oracle Spatial 10g/11g, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and MySQL.

For more information on this release, check out the download page.

Today we released a new version of Hibernate Spatial: release 1.0-M2. This will probably be the last milestone release for the definitive release 1.0. More information is on the download page.

This is the second installment of a series of posts on the subject of geospatial open source based on my talk at the CASCADOSS symposium. The topic for this post is vendor lock-in, or rather the widespread thought in the GIS world that open standards such as those promoted by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) will break vendor lock-in. In theory it should work: open standards should make GIS products interchangeable and interchangeability precludes vendor lock-in.

Recently I was invited to the CASCADOSS symposium to give my views on open source business models, specifically in the GIS market. For the presentation I developed some themes that might be of interest to others working on open source and/or GIS. I therefore decided to (finally) start putting this blog to some good use by publishing a series of posts that elaborate these themes. This is the first installment.