Kosmo

Kosmo Desktop is a user friendly, desktop GIS application which allows you to explore, edit and analyse spatial data from a variety of databases, vector and raster formats.

Kosmo Desktop follows OGC standards and provides excellent topology integrity. It's plug-in architecture enables it to be easily customised for specific purposes.

Kosmo Desktop - 2.0 is distributed under a GPLv2 license (see GPL v2 license for more details about it)

Running on the LiveDVD

1. To run Kosmo 2.0 on the Live DVD, click on the Kosmo link on the desktop.
2. In the "Wellcome to Kosmo" dialog, select the option "With a new view" under the "Create new project" group in order to create a new project with an empty view. Press Ok to continue
3. In the next dialog, select your Spatial Reference System and press Ok to continue
4. Press the green plus button from the main toolbar to start adding geodata resources (files, databases tables) to the empty view

Getting started

Kosmo - Desktop 2.0 is able to load the next types of geodata resources:

• Vectorial file layers: Shapefiles, GML, DXF, DWG, DGN, CSV (by an extension)
• Vectorial databases: PostgreSQL + PostGIS, Oracle, MySQL
• Raster layers: ECW, MrSID, Tiff, JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP
• OGC services: WMS 1.0.0/1.1.0/1.3.0, WFS 1.0.0/1.1.0

New functionalities in the new 2.0 version

The new Kosmo Desktop 2.0 contains the next new functionalities and improvements:

1. New advanced printing module that uses as base the OpenOffice offimatic suite
2. Topology relations on edition and post-edition mode
3. Sextante 0.5 bindings for Kosmo
4. Raster georreferencing tool
5. Generation of polygons from a line set tool
6. Clean / intersect / validating tools
7. Improvements for digitizing tools (geometry tracking mode, ...)
8. KML export
9. GML import / export
10. SLD import / export
11. WFS connector added
12. WMS connector improved
13. Field calculator improved with some new functions