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What the new gvSIG 2.0 version implies

With great expectation we announce what the gvSIG Association has communicated: a final version of gvSIG 2.0; project that had been working in a somewhat parallel way to the 1x developments and that until now had left us quite satisfied in 1.12.

Among the novelties, this version has a new development architecture, in which the way in which gvSIG manages data sources has been redesigned with the aim of improving both reliability and modularity, thus benefiting both users and developers . In addition to allowing greater ease of maintenance and evolution of technology. It has been, therefore, a bet of future with the aim of not limiting the technological evolution and to settle the bases for a fast evolution.

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This new version of gvSIG Desktop also brings a series of new features:
  - New installer that supports typical and customized installation; with what is possible to control what we hope to install and ignore; Basic by the way for advanced users.
  - Add-ons Manager that allows you to install new extensions and customize our gvSIG from the application itself.
  - Some changes in the interface of data management tools such as:
       · Import / export of files.
       · Operations with tables.
       · New layer.
  - Improvements in layer loading performance.
  - WMTS support (Web Map Tiled Service).
  - Raster data cache.
  - Unified geoprocessing interface.
  - Symbol importer, facilitating the generation of symbol libraries.
  - Symbol exporter, which allows you to easily share complete symbol libraries with other users.
  - Scripting environment (languages: Jython, Groovy and Javascript).
We must bear in mind that this is not gvSIG 1.12 improved; As I mentioned before, it is a medium-term project that had been developing a version that we know would replace the core of the 1x versions. So despite being the latest version of gvSIG, we are really facing a new gvSIG, so we find that it does not have some of the functionalities of gvSIG 1.12. These functionalities will be incorporated in successive and continuous updates as they are migrated to the new architecture. The main features not available are:
  - Georeferencing
  - Legends by proportional symbols, graduates, point density, quantities by category and by expressions
  - Extensions: Network analysis and 3D.
In the same way there are several projects based on this new architecture that will allow new functionalities and improvements to appear directly over gvSIG 2.0 in the coming months.
We must also remember that the level of stability of this new version is not as high as desired -at this time-, considering it a final so that the community can begin to use it officially and, mainly, to address the new developments on it.
For all this we encourage you to test it and report the errors that you find so that we can correct them in the successive updates. Known errors of this version can be consulted in the links mentioned above.
In this version, several mirrors have also been enabled for downloading add-ons from gvSIG. These mirrors will be available in a few days.
The people behind this project expect us to like the new features of this new version and to help improve it.

 http://www.gvsig.org/web/projects/gvsig-desktop/official/gvsig-2.0/descargas
http://gvsig.org/r?r=bugs200

For our part, we congratulate the effort of this initiative; that after venturing into a new model and contrary to the traditional one, overcoming potholes has maintained an interesting discipline in the management of an entire community that is the one who has given continuity to the initial idea. We know how complex the Open Source model is, but in my particular case, it is pleasant to arrive in a municipality in the Americas, in a coordinate that the whole world ignores, and after the cordial greeting of the protocol, to meet a land registry chief who dares to say:

Here we use gvSIG. I implemented it myself.

Golgi Alvarez

Writer, researcher, specialist in Land Management Models. He has participated in the conceptualization and implementation of models such as: National Property Administration System SINAP in Honduras, Management Model of Joint Municipalities in Honduras, Integrated Cadastre-Registry Management Model in Nicaragua, Territory Administration System SAT in Colombia . Editor of the Geofumadas knowledge blog since 2007 and creator of the AulaGEO Academy that includes more than 100 courses on GIS - CAD - BIM - Digital Twins topics.

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  1. Thank you for reflecting the news in your blog and for that final paragraph that shows one of the reasons why we enthusiastically push this project.

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