Hello, The GeoSOA research group (http://geosoa.scg.ulaval.ca) of the Centre for Research in Geomatics at Laval University, Quebec City, Canada is proud to announce the release of a new version of GeoKettle (http://www.geokettle.org).
GeoKettle is a "spatially-enabled" version of Pentaho Data Integration (Kettle, http://kettle.pentaho.org). Pentaho Data Integration (Kettle) is a powerful, metadata-driven ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) tool dedicated to the integration of different data sources for building data warehouses. It is part of the open source BI (Business Intelligence) software suite designed by Pentaho (http://www.pentaho.com). This special distribution of Kettle includes extensions which enable the use of geospatial (GIS) data. Like Kettle, GeoKettle is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). GeoKettle v3.1.0-20081103 is still in alpha version but demonstrates the potential of this ETL tool dedicated to spatial data warehouses and Spatial OLAP (SOLAP) applications. What's new since release 2.5.2-20080531 ? - The GeoKettle extensions were ported to the new Pentaho Data Integration (PDI) version 3.1.0-GA. As such, this release of GeoKettle includes all the improvements from the new PDI version. - Changed the core Geometry object framework from GeOxygene to the Java Topology Suite (JTS). - Added native support for Oracle Spatial and MySQL geospatial DBMS. - Speed improvements: due to the upgrade of PDI core and to the JTS library, GeoKettle now offers better throughput. We measured a typical speedup of row throughput between 15% and 60% (depending of the transformation) when using geospatial data. For further details, to download GeoKettle and to join the active GeoKettle community through the different mailing lists, please visit the GeoKettle project page: http://www.geokettle.org Hoping you will enjoy GeoKettle. Th. -- Prof. Thierry Badard, Ph.D. ____________________________________________________________ Professeur au Département des sciences géomatiques (http://www.scg.ulaval.ca) Chercheur régulier au Centre de Recherche en Géomatique (http://www.crg.ulaval.ca) Chercheur régulier du Réseau de Centres d'Excellence GEOIDE (http://www.geoide.ulaval.ca) Chercheur collaborateur de la chaire de recherche industrielle en base de données géospatiales décisionnelles (http://mdspatialdb.chair.scg.ulaval.ca) Responsable du projet de formation sur les normes internationales en géomatique (http://standards.scg.ulaval.ca) Administrateur des projets open source GeOxygene et GeoKettle (http://oxygene-project.sourceforge.net & http://www.geokettle.org) Membre votant de la fondation OSGeo (http://www.osgeo.org) Département des sciences géomatiques Faculté de foresterie et de géomatique Pavillon Louis-Jacques Casault 1055, avenue du Séminaire Local 1343 Université Laval Québec (Québec) G1V 0A6 Canada Tél.: +1.418.656-7116 - Fax: +1.418.656-7411 Courriel : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://geosoa.scg.ulaval.ca ____________________________________________________________ *AVERTISSEMENT* Avis relatif à la confidentialité Notice of confidentiality Advertencia de confidencialidad http://www.rec.ulaval.ca/lce/securite/confidentialite.htm _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss