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(CA-OPENOSX-INC) OpenOSX Ships Grass GIS Pre 4 CD Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SWALL MEADOWS, Calif.--(OPENOSX-INC)--May 30th, 2002-- OpenOSX, a leading provider of easy-to-use, world-class open-source software, today began shipping their Grass GIS Pre 4 CD. Grass (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) GIS (Geographical Information System) is a complete state-of-the-art geographical operating system. Grass is one of if not the most complete and sophisticated open-source GIS', now in development for more then twenty years. By the size of it's code base Grass is one the ten largest open-source projects in history. The OpenOSX Grass GIS Pre 4 CD will transform a Macintosh running Mac OS X into a full-fledged GIS workstation in minutes with ease. The OpenOSX Pre 4 CD offers Mac OS 10.1 compatibility (including dual-processor support), additional modules, along with numerous bug fixes. OpenOSX is also pleased to announce they are now accepting pre-orders for the complete 460 page book titled "Open Source GIS: A Grass GIS Approach". The book has been designed to meet the needs of a professional audience composed of researchers, practitioners in industry and graduate level students in Computer Science and Geosciences. OpenOSX has been chosen as the international distributor for the book scheduled to ship in early June, of 2002. With over 350 modules, Grass is the only real alternatives to ESRI ArcInfo GIS, which when fully-configured will cost more than US$20,000 per seat and is not supported on the Macintosh platform. Grass GIS offers state of the art three-dimensional dynamic spatial analysis and visualization. Users of OpenOSX Grass include NASA, USGS (U.S. Geological Survey) and NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration). Grass in combination with the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library, (GDAL) can import more then forty popular GIS file formats including: GeoTiff, Tiff, DXF, SDTS, DEM, Shape, ELAS, PNG, ARC, MIF, Tiger, Garmin, ASCII. Some of Grass' popular features include: ortho-rectification, Digital Elevation Model creation and editing, project/re-project raster & vector data in more then 120 projections, shaded relief with 16-bit precision, geostatistics and spatial data analysis, statistical analysis, 3D visualization and simulation modeling capabilities. The OpenOSX CD greatly simplifies installation and will install a long list of all the required and optional libraries and programs for full functionality. The CD is bundled with complete documentation and limited installation support. The owner of OpenOSX, Jeshua Lacock, is the official maintainer of the Mac OS X port of Grass and has published the Grass Pre 4 binaries for free and immediate downloading. The binaries do not include support or the required or optional libraries that are installed and configured by OpenOSX's CD. The binaries may be downloaded from Grass' home Baylor University or from its development headquarters at: <http://grass.itc.it/grass5/binary/mac_os_x/> The OpenOSX Grass CD is US$40 and 6-month CD subscriptions are available for US$95. More information about the OpenOSX Grass Pre 4 CD is available at <http://OpenOSX.com/grass/>. OpenOSX is offering a pre-order special for the book "Open Source GIS: A Grass GIS Approach" for US$90.00, US$29.00 off of the suggested retail price (SRP) of US$119.00. It is also bundled with the Grass Pre 4 CD for US$120, US$39.00 off of the SRP. OpenOSX, Inc. is a company dedicated to serving, and expanding, the Macintosh community. Founded on the premise that many computer users are intimidated by the UNIX command-line, OpenOSX committed itself to one mission- bringing popular Unix software to both the "Unix-challenged" and the seasoned, Mac inclined system administrator in a friendly, "Mac Like" environment. __________________________ Please visit our sponsors: RadGad(sm): The Place for Useful Gifts & Gadgets.(sm) http://www.radgad.com/, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], or 877-5-RADGAD MacTech(r) Magazine: The journal of Macintosh technology and development http://www.mactech.com, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], or 805-494-9797 DevDepot(sm): Your Source for RAM, Technical & Developer Products http://www.devdepot.com, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or call 877-DEPOT-NOW To submit a posting to MacDev-1, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. To subscribe to MacDev-1, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the SUBJECT line reading "SUBSCRIBE MACDEV-1". To unsubscribe, the SUBJECT line should read "UNSUBSCRIBE MACDEV-1". MacTech, Developer Depot, RadGad, and Xplain Corporation are not responsible for any errors, omissions, or other inaccuracies in this message. News may be propagated freely, but please attribute your source as MacTech Magazine, <http://www.mactech.com>. --
