News¶
| 13/11/2011: | GSDView Open Source Edition v. 0.6.5 released. Fixed some compatibility issues with new PyQt4 and sip versions. Full support to PySide (>= 1.0.4). Please refer to ChangeLog for more details. |
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| 31/07/2011: | GSDView now also works with PySide Full support to PySide has been implemented. Now GSDView can optionally use PySide as Qt4 bindings instead PyQt4 and SIP. |
| 24/07/2011: | A new tentative package for Mac OS X A new tentative package for Mac OS X. It includes a beta version of GDSView 0.6.5. Feedback is very welcome. |
| 28/11/2010: | GSDView Open v. 0.6.4 run on Fedora 14. In Fedora 14 it has been fixed a bug in GDAL packaging that caused a GSDView crash on startup. The (recently updated) RPM package now runs nicely on Fedora too. |
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Introduction¶
GSDView (Geo-Spatial Data Viewer) Open Edition 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.
Note
two editions of GSDView currently exist:
- an open source version named GSDView Open Edition that is freely available (GPL2) and provides only very basic features
- a GSDView Pro Edition that is non free and provides a larger number of features (including image analysis tools and integration components for external image processing tools)
Downloads¶
Please refer to the SourceForge project page.
Requirements¶
In order to run GSDView you should have the following software installed:
- Python 2.5 or higher
- SIP 4.7.5 or higher
- PyQt4 4.6 or higher
- numpy 1.3.0 or higher
- gdal 1.6.1 or higher
In replacement of PyQt4 an SIP it is possible to use:
- PySide 1.0.4 or higher
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.
