Ghent, Belgium – June 19, 2009 – A team of expert GIS developers from Belgium have released today Geomajas version 1.4.0. This new version is the stable release of version 1.3.0, announced in September 2008. Geomajas is the open source GIS software enabling geographical editing and support for complex relation models in the web browser. The software has an open architecture enabling easy sharing, integrating and updating of GIS data on multiple servers. Geomajas can be used to build web-mapping applications providing GIS solutions which have a need for complex analysis, editing and integration of geographic data.

Since the September release the software has been downloaded 3.000 times.

The new release Geomajas 1.4.0 includes:

• Advanced printing environment
• Better performance
• Professional styling
• Support for Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari

Geomajas 1.4.0 can be downloaded for free via www.geomajas.org. Also on the website a technology demonstration can be found showing how Geomajas becomes a full desktop application inside a browser.

Developers of Geomajas will present at FOSS4G, the conference for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (October 20 – 23, Sydney, Australia). Each year the conference brings together the best minds from the Open Source geospatial software world to discuss their work.

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