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Gaia SDI Platform Now Available for Linux, Mac Users

By Anil Sharma, TMCnet Contributor

The Carbon Project has reportedly announced the beta release of Gaia 3.4 for Mono, a powerful free platform designed to support Spatial Data Infrastructure users.

 

According to officials, the software was developed with the Mono Project open source framework, allowing Gaia to be used on any Linux or Mac desktop.

 

Officials said that Gaia 3.4 for Mono is a geospatial network platform that provides seamless synergy between Microsoft (News - Alert) Bing Maps, Yahoo Maps, OpenStreetMap, ESRI ArcGIS Server, Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) KML, GML, GMLsf, WMS, WMTS, WFS, Filters, WCS, ESRI Shape, Autodesk (News - Alert) and MapInfo formats, and more.

 

“Gaia for Mono is part of our commitment to help all SDI users meet tomorrow's infrastructure, transportation, environmental and national security challenges,” said Jeff Harrison, president and CEO of The Carbon Project (News - Alert), in a statement.

 

Harrison said that some of the most powerful desktop programs produced for Linux in recent years are built with the Mono open source .NET (News - Alert) framework.

 

“I’m very proud our team is able to bring Gaia to a new community of users,” he said.

Nuke Goldstein, chief technology officer of The Carbon Project, said that Gaia 3.4 for Mono platform is built with the latest CarbonTools PRO open-geospatial development toolkit and its source code is available to CarbonTools PRO developers.

 

“The Gaia for Mono package is compiled to comply with the Mono Project multi-platform framework, allowing Gaia to be used on any Linux or Mac OS,” Goldstein said in a statement.

 

The Carbon Project is a, high-energy software and technology company specializing in spatial data infrastructure applications and geosocial solutions. The company provides SDI and GIS solutions to meet tomorrow's transportation, infrastructure, environmental and national security challenges.

 

Back in August, The Carbon Project had announced the availability of an open source dashboard for Geodata.gov, the federal government's information service for maps and data. The free application enables "at-a-glance" visualization of geospatial assets and monitoring of Geospatial One-Stop search functions from desktop PCs.

Anil Sharma is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Anil’s articles, please visit his columnist page.

Edited by Amy Tierney