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NEW NEWS
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| 2008-03-18 |
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A new release of the Open Navigation
Surface has been released on the web-
site's download section (click here to go to
the download page). This is
essentially a roll-up of bug fixes,
particularly for memory leaks and
problems with metadata string
termination and whitespace handling.
See file 'CHANGES.txt' for details.
This is SVN tag 'release-1.1.0'
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| 2008-02-21 |
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A new candidate release of the Open
Navigation Surface has been released
on the web-site's download section
(click here to go to
the download page). A candidate
release is made prior to a full
release to allow interested developer
to check the proposed code-base for
the next stable release, and provide
any comments or corrections to be
incorporated before the official
release. The release target for 1.1.0
is 2008-03-14. Comments
can be sent to the developers using
the e-mail address on the contacts
page, and should be sent prior to
2008-03-07. Some modifications to the
Candidate Release might be made in the
meantime (if there are show-stopper
bugs to be fixed), and will be
anounced here if so. For those with
direct SVN access, this is revision
110, tag 'release-1.1.0'.
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| 2006-05-02 |
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A new release of the Open Navigation
Surface has been released on the web-
site's download section (click here to go to
the download page). This updates the
build system for Win32 platforms to
avoid problems with DLL builds,
removes conflicts with Win32 standard
libraries, updates code to avoid
warnings with some Linux builds, and
changes the elevation and uncertainty
values in the tracking list from
double to single precision. The
example BAG files have also been
updated to match. This is SVN tag
'release-1.0.1'
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| 2006-04-14 |
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The first full release of the Open
Navigation Surface is now available.
A source code archive has been
generated from the project's
SubVersion server, and is now
available for download from the
website (click here to go
to the download page). This release of
the project has significantly more
documentation that the candidate
release, and a much improved build
system. The release also contains an
updated version of the File
Specification Document, which contains
details of the project's structure and
how to request updates and extensions
to the BAG format.
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| 2006-02-08 |
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The first Candidate Release of the
Open Navigation Surface is now
available. A source code archive has
been generated from the HEAD branch of
the project's CVS repository, and is
now available for download from the
website (click here to go to
the download page). The intent of
this release is to allow time for
comments from any interested users
before the First Release, currently
scheduled for 2006-03-31. Comments
can be sent to the developers using
the e-mail address on the contacts
page, and should be sent prior to
2006-03-03. Some modifications to the
Candidate Release might be made in the
meantime (if there are show-stopper
bugs to be fixed), and will be
anounced here if so. Note that the
download asks for some basic
information on who is downloading the
package and their intended use. This
is cached internally, and will not be
used for any other purpose, nor will
it be released to anybody else. We
don't like spam either, and will not
sell or otherwise distribute your
information.
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| 2006-01-17 |
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At its teleconference meeting today, the ONSWG agreed on the release
schedule for the ONS library. The process will be to release a
'Candidate' version of the library for comment on 2006-02-03, accept
comments from users until 2006-03-03, and then incorporate the feedback
for a full release on 2006-03-31. The candidate release will be source
code only, but the full release will contain both source and binary
versions for selected platforms. Both of the releases will be hosted
through the web-site. More details can be found in the
meeting notes.
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| 2005-09-15 |
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An update on the status of the project was presented by Shannon Byrne
of SAIC at the Fourth International Conference on High-Resolution
Surveys in Shallow Water (Plymouth, UK) today. Included in the paper were
demonstrations of the first BAG file being used in HIPS,
Fledermaus and SABER
using the alpha level code from the second ONSWG meeting. The paper is now
available for download from the whitepapers section
of the website, and the presentation from the presentations
section.
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| 2005-07-22 |
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The second ONSWG meeting completed today in Durham, NH, with the first build-out
of the ONS library from source. This would not have been possible without
the hard work and dedication of the programmers who brought their talents to the
process, and the employers who let them do it. Our
thanks to all of them! There will now be a period of testing and debugging to
make the code safe for the rest of the world, with the aim that there will be
a testable alpha library and a real BAG file for the Shallow Survey conference
in 2006-09, along with trial integrations into some of the vendor packages. The
meeting notes can be downloaded from the notes section
of the website.
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| 2005-07-13 |
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A paper on the Open Navigation Surface has been accepted for publication in
the International Hydrographic Review. Based on the work to date as
presented at the US Hydro 2005 conference, the paper provides details of
the principles of the project, the structure of the library, and the
methods required for the Digital Signature Scheme. The paper will be
published in the 2005-11 editing of the journal (V6(2)) and will be
available here in PDF format from the whitepapers
section as soon as possible thereafter.
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| 2005-06-15 |
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A paper on the Open Navigation Surface has been accepted for the Fourth
International Conference on High-Resolution Hydrographic Survey in
Shallow Water (click here for
the conference web-site), which is to be held in Plymouth, UK from 12-15 September
2005. The paper, "The Open Navigation Surface Project" aims to show the
first full implementation of the project's library, including integration
of the file structure into commercial software developed and maintained
by the members of the ONSWG through their day jobs. The paper effort
is being spearheaded by Shannon Byrne of SAIC. The extended abstract
associated with the presentation, and the presentation, will be available
for download from this web-site after the conference.
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| 2005-05-17 |
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The second meeting of the Open Navigation Surface Working Group is
currently being organized for July 2005, with current best week
being that starting 2005-07-18. The primary goal for the meeting
will be to examine progress on the project in support of a beta release
of the library, and to determine what still needs work. The meeting
will be held at the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping and NOAA-UNH
Joint Hydrographic Center at the University of New Hampshire. More
details will be announced as they are settled. As before, all of
the sponsoring organizations are asked to nominate one or at most
two people to attend so that the meeting size does not grow out of
control. However, the meeting is open should organizations not
represented at the original meeting wish to send a representative.
For more details on getting involved, click
here.
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| 2005-03-28 |
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In its first public outing, Brian Calder presented a paper on the ONS
project at the US Hydrographic Conference 2005 in San Diego, CA today.
The paper (DOWNLOAD
[104k]) describes the structure of the project, and its
current state of development.
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| 2005-02-28 |
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The Open Navigation Surface web-site is now available for use. This site
contains information on the ONS project, whitepapers generated by the
project Working Group members, and the current status of the project.
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