News¶
| 26/12/2012: | Renewed sphinx theme. The HTML sphinx theme has been renewed. It is now based on the pydoctheme. |
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| 24/12/2012: | Packaging scripts updated to support PyInstaller 2.0. The packaging scripts have been updated to run with the new PyInstaller 2.0. |
| 04/11/2012: | Implemented support for Python 3. Now GSDView can be run using Python 3 (GDAL >= 1.10 is required). Contextually support for Python < 2.6 has been dropped. |
| 03/09/2012: | SCM moved to Git. The GSDView code is now maintained in a Git repository. Git is a modern and distributed SCM system that makes it easier for developers to manage the development process. All developers that have a checkout of the old SVN repository should make a fresh checkout. |
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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 2.6 or higher (including Python 3.x)
- 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
Note
in order to run GSDView with Python 3.x GDAL >= 1.10 is required.
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.
