[Gvsig_english] gvSIG 0.6-rc 1 (unstable) available

[Mario Carrera]

Hello,

We inform you that gvSIG is initiating the stabilisation process of the next
version 0.6. Already available is the first draft of the version gvSIG 0.6-rc1,
it can be found under
http://www.gvsig.gva.es/ingles/descargasw/descarga_software.htm (Downloading
the program).
Hereby, we would like to encourage you to participate in this project by
informing us about any detected error, simplest way by the means of the e-mail
distribution list.
Definitely, we appreciate every kind of feedback and suggestion.

New features of this version:

Web Services (OGC)

     - The clients of two new web services are integrated:
              o	Catalogue Service: In a Spatial Data Infrastructure, this is a
basic service that helps to search and find cartographic data
              o	Nomenclature Service (Gazetteer): Helps to localise positions on
the basis of toponymy and geographic names

     - Several features of the WMS client have been improved:
              o	More user-friendly interface
              o	Complete information about every layer of the WMS server
              o Style formatting
              o	Support of temporal dimensions
              o	Possibility to configure the intern order of the layer rendering
process
              o	Layers of the table of contents are manageable from the context
menu


Supported data formats:
     -The feature “Export to raster” supports two new data formats:
              o	jpeg (georeferenced)
              o	jpeg2000 (georeferenced)


Raster layers:
     -The pansharpening tool helps to increase the resolution of satellite
images, if they are panchromatic.


Type of data sources:
     -It is possible to create layers on the basis of a table that contains
coordinates. The resulting layer will contain a point for every pair of
coordinates. Furthermore, any change of the table coordinates will modify
automatically the position of the points.  



We count on your collaboration.
Kind regards



Mario Carrera Rodríguez
Grupo SIG-CAD / gvSIG
Servicio de Organización e Informática
Conselleria d'Infraestructures i Transport
Generalitat Valenciana
Valencia (España)