• Anexos
• Glosario
• Iconos y cursores en gvSIG
• Iconos que aparecen en el ToC
• Cursores
• Acciones
• Mapas
• Tablas
• Vistas
• Relación de errores conocidos de gvSIG 1.1
• Repliegue de ventanas del lanzador de instalación y las ventanas de la aplicación (Sólo Linux y tipo de escritorio KDE)
• Error en la gestión de campos tipo Date en gvSIG
• Error al intentar unir dos tablas con el nombre del campo con acento
• Error al configurar un navegador web en preferencias (sólo para Linux)
• No se pueden etiquetar los campos de una tabla dbf que se han unido a un dxf
• Rotar un elemento insertado en un mapa
• No funciona correctamente la herramienta de simetría sobre una capa de anotaciones.
• No se puede cambiar el formato de una capa WMS una vez cargada.
• Problemas para reconocer la impresora (sólo para Linux y Java 1.5)
• Fallo en los resultados de las funciones de agrupamiento en el geoproceso disolver.
• Errores conocido de la herramienta 'Exportar a ráster'

Anexos

Glosario

ADL Gazetter Protocol: Standard defining how the communication between ADL gazetteer clients and servers must be.

ADL GCS (ADL Gazetteer Content Standard): Although it is not an official standard it is the de facto set of rules used to defined the relationship between a toponym and its coordinates. It can supply other attributes such as the region where the toponym is settled, or the nature of this datum.

ANZLIC (Australian and New Zealand Land Information Council): Is the organization in charge of the development of the SDI in these two countries.

Band: Frequency interval from the electromagnetic spectrum. For example, the first band of the TM sensor is defined in the range of 0.45-.052 mm.

Database: Set of data structured in order to enable the storage, consultation and upgrading in a computer system. The relational database is a concrete case in which the information is organized in relations (often known as “tables”). Relations are a set of tuples (“records”) and a tuple integrates information about an element in a set of fields (one field for each attribute of the element); if two tables share a field containing values within the same domain then it is possible to apply a union operation. The union links the tuples according on the values in the linking field.

BMP: Acronym for Bit Map Picture; is a basic image format. It is simple and pretty normalized; it is a excellent format for sharing data and fast when analyzing and processing images. However, since it is not compressed it does not improve the transmission and disk accessing times. BMP is often used win RGB 24 bits.

CAD: Acronym for Computer Assistant Design. It is an automatic system oriented to design, draw and graphical visualization.

Cartography: Set of operations and processes that take part in the creation, edition and analysis of maps.

catalogue, Service of: Allows the publication and searching of information (metadata) describing data (cartography), services, applications and any other kind of resources. The catalogue services are necessary to supply search and invocation capabilities over registered resources within an SDI. A Open Geospatial Consortium spec establishes how a Catalogue Service must be standard and interoperable.

CatMDEdit: Is a computer application for creating and editing geographic metadata based upon the “OSI19115. Geographic Information – Metadata” norm. Among its features, it is an open-source project, multiplatform (Windows / UNIX) and multilingual (Spanish and English) as well.

CEN (European Committee of Standarization): Official organization for normalization of the European Union. Replaces country specific techniques by common rules for the whole Union in collaboration with international organizations and its members in Europe (CENELEC for electronics and ETSI for telecommunications).

CEN TC 287 (Technical Committee of Geographic Information): Set of standards for manipulating geographical information (approximately 20).

Clearinghouse: A distributed service for metadata about geospatial data locating. Allows to search in one or several nodes or servers that have been registered in the Clearinghouse of the Internet. It is the term used by FGDC, equivalent to the OGC’s Catalogue Service.

CNIDR z39.50 Server (clearinghouse for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval): z39.50 server, also known as zDist.

Compression: Technique for reducing the amount of bits needed for storing or transmitting information. There are lossless or destructive compressions (for instance, GIF and JPG for the digital images respectively).

Coordinate: Value defining the position in a reference system. The coordinates can be lineal (Cartesian) or polar (spherical), depending on the reference system.

Cota en ingles es Height que se autodefine CSDGM (Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata: Determines the metadata that exists in a geographical position and how to access to them. It does explain neither how to organize the data in a computer nor which software to use.

Datum: Geometric reference system used to numerically express the geodesic position of a point over the terrain. Each datum is defined according of an ellipsoid and a point where the ellipsoid and the Earth are tangent. In Spain for example, the datum uses the Hayford (or International 1924) ellipsoid and the tangency point is Postdam (Germany).

DublinCore: Set of metadata elements created to make the electronic resource discovery easier. ebRIM (ebXML Registry Information Model): Specifies a set of services that make the communication between companies easier using ebXML.

ebRS (ebXML Registry: Services and Protocols): Defines the services that the ebXML Registry and other related protocols offer.

ebXML (electronic Business XML): Is a Standard that defines an XML-document format for sharing information between companies.

Element of a metadata: Discrete metadata unit. Entity of a metadat**: Set of elements describing the same aspect of the data.

Ellipsoid: Simplified description of the Earth shape: the ellipsoids are defined by equatorial and polar radiuses.

EPSG: European Petroleum Survey Group.

Scale: Constant relation between a distance in a map and the corresponding real distance.

FGDC (Federal Geographic Data Committee): Organization in charge of developing the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) of the United States of America.

Geodesy: The science that studies the shape of the Earch in the gravitational field.

Geoid: Is the level surface, equipotential in the gravitational field, which adopts an irregular three-dimensional spheroid. Due to the dependency on the mass distribution inside the Earth, it is impossible to represent it mathematically. The mathematical shape used to do it is the ellipsoid that approximately fits better the Earth shape. The geoid is coincident with the mean ocean surface when they are quiet, virtually extended for the continents land.

Georreference: The art of assigning geographic coordinates to an object or structure. This concept applied to a digital image involves a set of geometric operations that allow assigning to each image pixel a pair of coordinates (x, y) in a projection system.

GIF: Graphic Interchange Format. Developed by CompuServe to provide a standard and platform-independent format. The GIF format is limited to a maximum of 256 colours. It is a reasonable limitation since most of the PC screens support 256 colours at most. In general, GIF is recommended for simple images. When the background has textures they are not useful because the computer tries to find the closest colour, and some distortions may appear in this process and the result is an inaccurate displaying for the image.

GPS: Acronym for global positioning system. It refers to the system by means of which it is possible to approximately calculate a position in the Earth using a signal received from several satellites (called the GPS constellation) simultaneously.

Grid: Is a net composed by two or more series of arcs in which the member of each series intersects with the members of the other series in an algorithmic way.

gvSIG: A Geographical Information handling tool. Features a user-friendly interface, an agile access to the most common vector and raster formats. It can integrate local and remote (the Internet) data through connections following some protocols specified by the Open Geospatial Consortium.

Spindle: Part of a sphere limited by two meridians or maximum circles. In the UTM projection each spindle is defined by two meridians separated by a distance of 6 degrees (for a total circle round of 360 degrees) and by two parallels of 80 degrees latitude North and South.

SDI: An SDI (Spatial Data Infrastructure) is a computer system integrated by a set of resources (catalogues, servers, programs, data, applications, web pages, and so on), for manage Geographic Information (maps, satellite images, toponymes, etc.), available from the Internet, that follow a set of interoperational capacity conditions (rules, specifications, protocols, interfaces, etc) that allow an user to use them using a simple browser and combine then for his/her needs.

IDEE: Acronym for Infraestructura de Datos Espaciales de España, or Spanish Spatial Data Infrastructure. The goal of the IDEE is to integrate through Internet the geographic data, metadata, services and information produced in Spain. So, any potential can identify, select, and access to these resources from the IDEE’s site where any node and other site of other geographic information producers of local, regional or even national wide areas available in Spain.

Digital Image: Graphical representation of an object which is, in fact, a regular matrix that is a collection of a reflectance values. The reflectance values are usually measured by sensors of a specific range of light wavelengths; examples of these sensors are those aerial-transported such are aircrafts or satellites or those integrated in a scanner used to digitalize printed documents.

Nomenclator Service: Offers the possibility of locating a geographic place by its name. It is defined as a service that receives an input that is the name of the place (toponym), with the common possibilities: exact match, starting with, contains, etc. and returns the location, by means of the coordinates, of the place. Additionally, the query by name also handles other criteria such as the spatial extension where to look up, or the type of the place (river, mountain, towns …). If one or more occurrences are found, the service supplies a list of the places found with any additional attribute describing it for the user can choose the desired one. There is an Open Geospatial Consortium spec describing how a Nomenclator Service must be to be standard and interoperable.

Iconos y cursores en gvSIG

Iconos que aparecen en el ToC

The following table shows the icons which appear in the ToC to the left of the name and which vary depending on the type of layer.

Nombre original	Icono	Descripción
icon-layer		A generic icon for a layer which does not have its own icon.
icon-layer-group		An icon for a group of layers in the ToC.
icon-layer-vect.shp		An icon used by default for a vector layer.
icon-layer-wms		An icon used for WMS layers in the OGC service.
icon-layer-wfs		An icon used for WFS layers in the OGC service.
icon-layer-raster		An icon used for raster layers.

Cursores

These cursors are used by the application depending on the tool which is enabled at that time.

Name original	Icon	Description
cursor-query-information		A cursor used when the information request tool is selected.
cursor-zoom-in		A cursor which appears when zooming in.
cursor-zoom-out		A cursor which appears when zooming out.
cursor-hiperlink		A cursor used for the hyperlink tool.
cursor-insert-poligon		A cursor used by the insert polygon tool in an editing session.
cursor-insert-rectangle		A cursor used by the insert rectangle tool in an editing session.
cursor-pan		A cursor which appears when panning is allowed.
cursor-query-area		A cursor used by the area measuring tool.
cursor-query-distance		A cursor used by the distance measuring tool.
cursor-select-by-rectangle		A cursor which appears when selecting by rectangle.
cursor-select-point		A cursor used to make a point selection.

Acciones

Icons which appear in the tool bar or in the application menus.

Name original	Name in gvSIG	Icon	Description
application-console	Information console		This displays the application’s error console.
application-exit	Exit		This closes the application.
application-preferences	Preferences		This displays the application’s preferences dialogue box.
edit-copy	Copy		This copies documents
edit-cut	Cut		This cuts documents.
edit-delete	Delete		This deletes documents.
edit-paste	Copy		This pastes documents.
edit-redo	Redo		This redoes an action.
edit-undo	Undo		This undoes another action
document-print	Print		This allows access to the print configuration dialogue box.
project-new	Create a new Project		This creates a new blank project.
project-open	Open existing project		This shows the “Open” dialogue box which allows an existing project to be located.
project-save-as	Save as		This saves the changes made to a project.
project-save	Save project		This saves the changes made to a project.
layer-add	Add layer		This shows the dialogue box to add layers to a view.
layer-show-attribute-table	See table		This shows the table of attributes of the selected layer.
edition-command-stack	Command stack		This shows the command stack window of an editing session.
edition-complex-selection	Complex selection		This activates the complex selection tools on a view.
edition-geometry-copy	Copy		This makes a copy of the selected element.
edition-geometry-edit-vertex	Edit vertex		This allows a geometry vertex to be edited.
edition-geometry-insert-line	Line		This allows a line to be inserted in a line layer editing session.
edition-geometry-move	Move		This moves the selected geometries.
edition-geometry-rotate	Rotate		This allows the selected geometries to be rotated.
edition-geometry-scale	Escale		This scales (reduces or increases) the selected geometries.
edition-geometry-select	Select		This selects a geometry
edition-geometry-symmetry	Symmetry		This divides a geometry symmetrically.
edition-insert-geometry-arc	Arc		This activates the tool to insert an arc in the layer.
edition-insert-geometry-circle	Circle		This activates the tool to insert a circle in the layer.
edition-insert-geometry-ellipse	Ellipse		This activates the tool to insert an ellipse in the layer.
edition-insert-geometry-multipoint	Multipoint		This activates the tool to insert points in a multipoint geometry.
edition-insert-geometry-point	Point		This activates the point insertion tool.
edition-insert-geometry-poligon	Polygon		This activates the polygon insertion tool.
edition-insert-geometry-polyline	Poliline		This activates the tool to insert a polyline.
edition-insert-geometry-rectangle	Rectangle		This activates the rectangle insertion tool.
edition-modify-geometry-internalpolygon	Internal polygon		This allows a polygon to be extracted from a closed geometry.

Mapas

icons

Name original	Name in gvSIG	Icon	Description
layout-add-border	Graphic line		This adds a border to the map.
layout-bring-to-front	Bring to front		This puts the selected element in front of other elements.
layout-clear-selection	Clear selection		This eliminates the selected element.
layout-command-stack	Command stack		This displays the map’s command stack window.
layout-edit-vertex	Edit vertex		This allows vertexes of graphic elements inserted in the map to be edited.
layout-export-pdf	Export PDF		This exports the map to pdf format. -
layout-export-ps	Export a PS		This exports the map to postscript format.
layout-group	Group graphics		This groups together the selected elements of the map.
layout-insert-box	Insert box		This inserts a box in the map.
layout-insert-circle	Circle		This inserts a circle in the map
layout-insert-image	Insert image		This inserts an image in the map.
layout-insert-legend	Insert legend		This adds the view legend to the map.
layout-insert-line	Insert line		This tool allows a line to be added to the map.
layout-insert-north	Insert north		Adds the element “North” to the map.
layout-insert-point	Insert point		This tool allows a point to be inserted in the map.
layout-insert-poligon	Insert polygon		This tool allows a polygon to be inserted in the map.
layout-insert-polyline	Insert poliline		This tool allows a polyline to be inserted in the map.
layout-insert-scalebar	Insert escale		This tool allows the view scalebar to be inserted in the map.
layout-insert-text	Insert Text		This inserts a text in the map.
layout-insert-view	Insert View		This inserts a view in the map.
layout-page-setup	Page setup		This opens the map’s page preference dialogue box.
layout-pan	Frame the view ç		This activates the panning tool to move around the view.
layout-save-template	Save as template		This saves the map design as a template.
layout-select	Select by rectangle		This selects an element in the map.
layout-send-to-back	Send to back		This sends the selected element to the back.
layout-set-size-position	Size/position		This changes the size and position of an element in the map.
layout-show-tag	Move image to be georeferenced		This allows you to move the image to be georeferenced in the view.
layout-template-open	Open template		This loads a previously saved map template.
layout-ungroup	Ungroup graphics		This ungroups a set of graphics inserted in the map.
layout-zoom-center-in	Zoom in to centre		This zooms into the centre of the map.
layout-zoom-center-out	Zoom out from centre		This zooms out from the centre of the map.
layout-zoom-fit	Zoom fit		This adjusts the map zoom to the size of the window.
layout-zoom-in	Zoom in		This zooms into the selected area of the map.
layout-zoom-out	Zoom out		This zooms out from the selected area of the map.
layout-zoom-real	Zoom 1:1		This enlarges the map to the size of the screen.
layout-zoom-selected	Zoom to selection		This zooms to the selected elements.

Tablas

Name original	Name in gvSIG	Icon	Description
table-filter	Filter		This opens the filter dialogue box in a table.
table-join	Join		This opens the dialogue box to join tables.
table-link	Link		This opens the dialogue box to link tables.
table-order-asc	Ascending order		This puts the records in a selected field of the table in ascending order.
table-order-desc	Descending order		This puts the records in a selected field of the table in descending order.
table-selection-up	Move the selection up		This moves the selected records to the top of the table.
table-statistics	Statistics		This opens the statistics dialogue box in the table.

Vistas

Vistas

Original Name	Name in gvSIG	Icon	Description
view-add-event-layer	Add event layer		This opens the dialogue box for adding an event layer to the view
view-center-to-point	Centre the view on a point		his opens a dialogue box in which you can input the required cordinates you wish the view to centre on.
view-clear-selection	Clear selection		This deselects the elements selected in the view.
view-locator	Locate by attribute		This opens the dialogue box to select by attributes
view-pan	Panning		This activates the panning tool.
view-query-area	Measure area		This activates the area measuring tool
view-query-distance	Measure distances		This activates the distance measuring tool
view-query-link	Hyperlink		This activates the hyperlink query tool
view-save-to-raster	Save to raster		This allows you to select the area of the view you wish to save to the raster layer
view-select-by-polygon	Select by polygon		This activates the tool for selecting geometries of a layer which are located in a polygon
view-select-by-rectangle	Select by rectangle		This activates the tool for selecting geometries of a layer which are located in a rectangle
view-select-geometry	Select by point		This activates the tool for selecting geometries of a layer
view-query-information	Information		This activates the tool for providing information about a point
view-zoom-back	Previous zoom		This shows the view with the previous zoom.
view-zoom-center-in	Zoom in from centre		This zooms in from the centre of the view
view-zoom-center-out	Zoom out from centrer		This zooms out from the centre of the view
view-zoom-in	Zoom in		This zooms into the selected area
view-zoom-manager	Zoom manager		This opens the zoom manager dialogue box.
view-zoom-map-contents	Zoom fit		This zooms to shows all load layers.
view-zoom-out	Zoom out		This zooms out from the area of the selected view.
view-zoom-to-seleccion	Zoom to selection		This zooms in to the selected elements of a layer.
gazetteer-search	Gazetteer		This opens the gazetteer search tool (search by place names)
catalog-clear-point	Delete gazetter point		This deletes the reference point added by the catalogue or gazetteer search.
catalog-search	Catalogue search		This opens the catalogue search tool.
scripting-console	Jython console		This opens the scripting languages console..

Relación de errores conocidos de gvSIG 1.1

Repliegue de ventanas del lanzador de instalación y las ventanas de la aplicación (Sólo Linux y tipo de escritorio KDE)

An error has been detected which affects the way in which the application windows and the gvSIG installer are displayed. There are occasions on which the windows roll up and only the title bar can be seen. To solve this problem, follow the steps below:

Open the application and place the cursor over the gvSIG icon in the top left-hand corner. Right click on the mouse.

If the window has already rolled itself up, open the window again before continuing.To do this, right click on the mouse on the window’s title bar and disable the “Shade” option so that the window is displayed again.

Select the “Configure window behaviour” option from the contextual menu.

In the following window, select the “Specific window preferences” option and click on “New”.

In the next window, click on the “Detect” button and click on any part of the gvSIG view.

A new window will then open. Select the option “Use window type (all the application” and click on “Ok”.

Return to the “Edit specific window options” window, go to the “Geometry” tab, select the “Shade” option and click on the “Force” option in the pull-down menu.

Error en la gestión de campos tipo Date en gvSIG

At present there is no uniform date format in gvSIG, which leads to problems involving date value management.

Problems have been detected when performing calculations with Date values using the Field Calculator.

Error al intentar unir dos tablas con el nombre del campo con acento

At present, it is not possible to correctly join two tables whose field names contain accents.

Error al configurar un navegador web en preferencias (sólo para Linux)

In the web browser option of the gvSIG preferences menu, the section “Execute own command” does not work correctly in this version.

No se pueden etiquetar los campos de una tabla dbf que se han unido a un dxf

At present, it is not possible to see the labels on the field of a dbf table which has been joined to a dxf table by means of the table-joining process.

Rotar un elemento insertado en un mapa

At present, graphics cannot be rotated clockwise as there is no arrow with which to do so. If you wish to rotate graphics in this direction, input the corresponding degrees (together with a minus sign) in the associated text box.

No funciona correctamente la herramienta de simetría sobre una capa de anotaciones.

At present, it is not possible to use the symmetry tools on an annotation layer.

No se puede cambiar el formato de una capa WMS una vez cargada.

A problem has been detected with some WMS servers in which, on attempting to access the layer properties again and change the image formats, these are not displayed correctly.

Problemas para reconocer la impresora (sólo para Linux y Java 1.5)

If gvSIG displays a warning message indicating that there is no default printer even if there is a printer installed, go to the system preferences menu and set the printer as default.

Fallo en los resultados de las funciones de agrupamiento en el geoproceso disolver.

It has been found that the results obtained after applying the grouping functions in the “Dissolve” geoprocess are not correct.

Errores conocido de la herramienta 'Exportar a ráster'

When attempting to clip jpg2000 and ecw layers, the RGB bands are interchanged in the resulting layer