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A few weeks ago GIS Monitor published an interesting article about the state of GRASS GIS, including comments from Markus Neteler, who is one of the directors of the new Open Source Geospatial Foundation and major GRASS developer. From the article: "The new built-in GRASS GUI, developed within the past six months, is expanding the software's user base. Many more users than in the past, Neteler told me, are saying "I am new to GIS and I want to use GRASS." However, he acknowledges that it will take "many months" for the new GUI to become well known in the larger GIS community. [...] What is the single biggest current development in GRASS? It is porting it to Windows as a native application, says Neteler. Many users, he points out, are not interested in switching to Linux. "We expect to release the first official Windows version by the start of next year," he told me."
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Technology: GRASS GIS 6.1.0 Released 11 August 2006 1 comment
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markusN writes "GRASS GIS 6.1.0 released 11 August 2006. A new technology preview version of GRASS GIS
is being released today in preparation for the next benchmark release, GRASS 6.2.
This feature release, version 6.1.0, improves upon the previous stable
version of GRASS by adding hundreds of new features as well as support
for the latest GIS data formats.
See also Full announcement." The rest of the press release below.
GRASS and Open Source GIS in India?
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All Points Blog links to a Moneycontrol India article where open source geospatial software is mentioned. From the article: "There are opportunities for open source Geographic Information System (GIS) software. There has been some work with Geographic Resources Analysis Support System or GRASS, which is being used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing commonly used for urban planning and other land issues in India."
Technology: GRASS GIS 6.2.0 Released
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markusN writes "This new stable release adds hundreds of new features, support for the
latest GIS data formats, and includes new translations for many languages. The Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) is a Geographic
Information System (GIS) used for spatial modeling, visualization of both
raster and vector data, geospatial data management and analysis, processing
of satellite and aerial imagery, and production of sophisticated presentation
graphics and hardcopy maps. GRASS combines powerful raster, vector, and
geospatial processing engines into a single integrated software package." More below and related previous stories.
Technology: GRASS GIS 6.2.3 Released 1 comment
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The powerful open source GRASS GIS team has just released version 6.2.3: "This release fixes a number of bugs discovered in the 6.2.2 source code. It is primarily for stability purposes and adds minimal new features. Besides bug fixes it also includes a number of new message translations and updates for the help pages. Highlights include further maturation of the GRASS 6 GUI, vector, and database code. Some improvements have been backported from the GRASS 6.3 development branch where new development continues at a strong pace of approximately one code commit every hour, including major work on an all new cross-platform wxPython GUI and a native MS Windows port." Below I copied a few related previous stories.
Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach
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The GRASS GIS mailing list informs us the book "Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach" has released a third edition. The table of contents: "Contents: 1 Open Source software and GIS; 2 GIS concepts; 3 Getting started with GRASS; 4 GRASS data models and data exchange; 5 Working with raster data; 6 Working with vector data; 7 Graphical output and visualization; 8 Image processing; 9 Notes on GRASS programming; 10 Using GRASS with other Open Source tools; Appendix; References; Index." See below for other GRASS GIS related stories.
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