News¶
| 24/08/2009: | GSDView Open Source Edition v. 0.6.0 released. With respect to the alpha version a serious bug in sub-datasets handling has been fixed. New component (PluginManager) for plugin management. It is configurable via preferences dialog. |
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| 10/05/2009: | GSDView Open Source Edition v. 0.6.0 alpha 1 released. Almost complete application re-write: new architecture that allows multiple data access backends (currently only GDAL backend is provided), updated dataset browser with new contextual actions, Multiple Document Interface (MDI), new preference dialog, improved GDAL configuration handling. |
| 30/08/2008: | New Home Page. The project Home Page has been completely rewritten. Now the sphinx tool is used to generate the entire documentation set. |
The complete News archive is also available.
Introduction¶
GSDView (Geo-Spatial Data Viewer) is a lightweight viewer for geo-spatial data and products. It is written in python and Qt4 and it is mainly intended to be a graphical front-end for the GDAL library and tools. GSDView is modular and has a simple plug-in architecture.
At the moment GSDView is at a very early development stage.
Downloads¶
Please refer to the SourceForge project page.
Requirements¶
In order to run GSDView you should have the following software installed:
Installation¶
Decompress the distribution package:
$ tar xvfz gsdview-X.YY.tar.gz
From the package directory run the following command as superuser:
# python setup.py install
You can also install GSDView in a custom location:
# python setup.py install --prefix=<PATH_TO_INSTALL_DIR>
Note
If you have all dependencies installed you can run GSDView without installation by simply running the following command in the package root:
$ python run.py
Note
WindowsTM users can run GSDView without installation by double-clicking on gsdview.pyw file.
If it doesn’t exist you can get it by making a copy of the run.py file and renaming it run.pyw.
License¶
GSDView is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2.
