[needs-packaging] Minerva - 3D GIS with underground mapping

[Tree MendUs]

URL:
http://www.minerva-gis.org/
http://serv.asu.edu/cgi-bin/make_page?site=minerva&page=home

Description:
Minerva is an open-source program for viewing geospatial data that works on Windows, Mac, and Linux. It unifies standard GIS capabilities with high-performance, 3D visualization.

Minerva's primary strength is the ability to display raster and vector data together from multiple sources at interactive speeds. It can easily display large terrain and image repositories because it automatically draws the appropriate level of detail.

As a project under active development at the Fulton High Performance Computing Initiative at Arizona State University, Minerva has seen heavy use in our production visualization facility, Decision Theater. Projects completed with Minerva vary from school enrollment and disease propagation to real-time weather prediction.

Minerva was born out of a need for multi-screen, view-frustum corrected, planet-wide management and inquiry of geospatially referenced data of all kinds. This includes satellite images, terrain, temporal vector data, temporal volumetric data, and standard GIS "shape" data, loaded either from disk, spatial databases, or internet protocols.

Further, a lot of non-traditional geospatial data is underground, such as groundwater data and urban infrastructure. Minerva is a platform flexible enough to display data below the surface.

The desktop application is made by wrapping the core functionality with a Qt based application framework called Helios. For multi-screen display, an executable based on VR-Juggler exposes the functionality of Minerva.

One can optionally use a PostgreSQL database as the communication conduit so that any running instance of Minerva can send commands to and receive commands from other instances of Minerva. This feature is most often used to "drive" a VR-based Minerva session from the desktop.

Versions for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X so good for cross platform organizations.

License:
 Minerva and supporting CadKit modules are released under the BSD License. The code is provided "as is" with absolutely no warranty whatsoever.

Portions of the code link to 3rd party libraries (e.g., Qt) and are subject to those licenses as well.

You are welcome and encouraged to use Minerva in closed-source, proprietary work.

Notes:
Build Instructions are at http://serv.asu.edu/cgi-bin/make_page?site=minerva&page=build

Download Instructions at svn co https://cadkit.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/cadkit/trunk cadkit

[Tree MendUs (tree-mendus-deactivatedaccount)]

Sorry!
Somehow this needs-packing request got into GetDeb rather than Ubuntu.
Please ignore the GetDeb request and do the Ubuntu one.

How do we cancel a submission?

I want to cancel the GetDeb submissions and change them to Ubuntu.
I have generated copies for Ubuntu, but can not get rid of the GetDeb requests.

Thankyou.

[Tree MendUs (tree-mendus-deactivatedaccount)]

Not packaged, so too early to request a backport.

[pinzia (pinzia)]

any news?