[OSGeo-Discuss] Stable GRASS GIS 6.4.3 released
*GRASS GIS 6.4.3 released* - Birthday release for *30 years of GRASS GIS* http://grass.osgeo.org [image: 30 YEARS OF GRASS GIS!]http://grass.osgeo.org/news/27/15/30-years-of-GRASS-GIS-development/ We are pleased to announce the release of a new stable version of GRASS GIS. This release fixes bugs discovered in 6.4.2 version of the program and adds a number of new features. This release includes over 830 updates to the source code since 6.4.2. As a stable release series, the 6.4 line will enjoy long-term support and incremental enhancements while preserving backwards-compatibility with the entire GRASS 6 line. *Key improvements* of this release include some new functionality (assistance for topologically unclean vector data), major speedup for some vector modules, fixes in the vector network modules, fixes for the wxPython based portable graphical interface (attribute table management, wxNVIZ, and Cartographic Composer). A number of new modules have been added for processing LANDSAT and MODIS satellite data, and a new vector statistics module is also introduced. Many new symbols and north arrows are available, and the user will find an improved and easier to use wizard for creating custom project locations with precise map projection and datum support. Community-contributed add-on modules are now more easily and robustly installed from an online archive. Other major developments include enhancements to the Python scripting library and numerous software-compatibility fixes and translation updates. Important is the enhanced portability for MS-Windows (native support, fixes in case of missing system DLLs). And we welcome Romanian as our twenty-fourth language! Source code download: - http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/source/ - http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/source/grass-6.4.3.tar.gz Binaries download: - winGRASS 6.4.3 standalone installerhttp://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/binary/mswindows/native/WinGRASS-6.4.3-1-Setup.exe - winGRASS 6.4.3 in OSGeo4W installerhttp://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki/pkg-grass - Arch Linux https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/grass64/ - openSUSE One-Click installerhttps://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Application:Geo/grass - Ubuntuhttps://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntugis/+archive/ubuntugis-unstable/+packages?field.name_filter=grassfield.status_filter=publishedfield.series_filter= - Mac OS X http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/mac-osx/ - ... further packages will follow shortly. To get the GRASS GIS 6.4.3 source code directly from SVN: svn checkout http://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/tags/release_20130727_grass_6_4_3 See also our detailed announcement: http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/6.4.3-News First time users should explore the first steps tutorialhttp://grass.osgeo.org/documentation/first-time-users after installation. *Video of GRASS GIS 6.4 development visualization from 1999 to 2013* (with soundtrack) [image: GRASS GIS 6.4 development visualization from 1999 to 2013 (with soundtrack)] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR4_5GSID2A *About GRASS GIS* GRASS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) is a *free and open source* Geographic Information System (GIS) software suite used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, graphics and map production, spatial modeling, and 3D visualization. GRASS GIS is currently used in academic and commercial settings around the world, as well as by many governmental agencies and environmental consulting companies. GRASS GIS can be used either as a *stand-alone application* or as *backend* for other software packages such as QGIS and R geostatistics. It is a founding member of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeohttp://www.osgeo.org/ ). ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Celebrating 30 years of GRASS GIS!
*Press release* *29 July 2013* Today marks 30 years of GRASS GIS development Today the Free Software community celebrates the *30th birthday of GRASS GIS *! GRASS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) is a *free and open source* Geographic Information System (GIS) software suite used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, graphics and map production, spatial modeling, and 3D visualization. GRASS GIS is currently used in academic and commercial settings around the world, as well as by many governmental agencies and environmental consulting companies. GRASS GIS can be used either as a *stand-alone application* or as *backend* for other software packages such as QGIS and R geostatistics. It is a founding member of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeohttp://www.osgeo.org/) and can be freely downloaded at http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/. [image: 30 YEARS OF GRASS GIS!] Brief history In 1982, Lloyd Van Warren, a University of Illinois engineering student, began development on a new computer program based on a master's thesis by Jim Westervelt that described a GIS package called LAGRID – the Landscape Architecture Gridcell analysis system. Thirty years ago, on 29 July 1983, the user manual for this new system titled *GIS Version 1 Reference Manual* was first published by J. Westervelt and M. O'Shea. The software continued its development at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (USA/CERL) in Champaign, Illinois; and after further expansion version 1.0 was released in 1985 under the name *Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS)*. The GRASS GIS community was established the same year with the first annual user meeting and the launch of GRASSnet, one of the internet's early mailing lists. The user community expanded to a larger audience in 1991 with the Grasshopper mailing list and the introduction of the World Wide Web. The users' and programmers' mailing lists archives for these early years are still available onlinehttp://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-user/ . In the mid 1990s the development transferred from USA/CERL to The Open GRASS Consortium (a group who would later generalize to become today's Open Geospatial Consortium -- the OGC http://www.opengeospatial.org/). The project coordination eventually shifted to the actual *international development team* made up of governmental and academic researchers and university scientists. Reflecting this shift to a project run by the users, for the users, in 1999 GRASS GIS was released the first time under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). A detailed history of GRASS GIS can be found at http://grass.osgeo.org/history/. Since these early days GRASS development has progressed and grown, adjusting with and often at the forefront of new technologies as they became available. Today GRASS's software development is maintained by a team of domain experts as visualized in this beautiful new video animationhttp://youtu.be/MR4_5GSID2Awhich stylistically details the codebase evolution and modifications from *1999 through to 2013*, up to and including the latest GRASS GIS 6.4.3 stable release. 30 years of active growth: where are we now? Recent versions of GRASS GIS come with exciting new features like: - A *new modern graphical user interfacehttp://grass.osgeo.org/screenshots/user-interface/ * complete with integrated workflow-wizards and interactive tools, - A *new Python interfacehttp://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_and_Python * to the core C geoprocessing libraries, permitting Python developers to create powerful new modules in a quick and simple way, - Fully-fledged *topological vector support*http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/vectorintro.htmlfor editing and tools for topological analysis and data cleaning, - Hundreds of *new modules* to analyze raster and vector data of all scales and types, with hundreds more contributed in an active community repository, - Support for *massive data processing* (e.g. relevant for LiDAR processing) and Large File Support ( 2GB, 64-bit files on 32-bit systems), - A codebase *portable* to all of today's major Operating Systems, - Installed on everything from low-power dataloggers and field laptops to high performance Grid Engines and TOP500 supercomputers. GRASS GIS is currently developed by a global team of around twenty core programmers, plus numerous add-on contributors, testers, and translators. Overall, more than seventy core developers have worked on the code in the past thirty years, making over fifty-thousand modifications to the code. All the while, hundreds more have provided peer review and improvements to algorithms and documentation while using GRASS GIS in professional, educational, and research contexts. Where to next? Development on GRASS GIS continues with as much energy and interest as ever. *Version 6.4.3 has been released as a birthday
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Celebrating 30 years of GRASS GIS!
Happy birthday GRASS GIS! :) On 07/30/2013 07:32 PM, Markus Neteler wrote: *Press release* *29 July 2013* Today marks 30 years of GRASS GIS development Today the Free Software community celebrates the *30th birthday of GRASS GIS *! GRASS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) is a *free and open source* Geographic Information System (GIS) software suite used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, graphics and map production, spatial modeling, and 3D visualization. GRASS GIS is currently used in academic and commercial settings around the world, as well as by many governmental agencies and environmental consulting companies. GRASS GIS can be used either as a *stand-alone application* or as *backend* for other software packages such as QGIS and R geostatistics. It is a founding member of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeohttp://www.osgeo.org/) and can be freely downloaded at http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/. [image: 30 YEARS OF GRASS GIS!] Brief history In 1982, Lloyd Van Warren, a University of Illinois engineering student, began development on a new computer program based on a master's thesis by Jim Westervelt that described a GIS package called LAGRID -- the Landscape Architecture Gridcell analysis system. Thirty years ago, on 29 July 1983, the user manual for this new system titled *GIS Version 1 Reference Manual* was first published by J. Westervelt and M. O'Shea. The software continued its development at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (USA/CERL) in Champaign, Illinois; and after further expansion version 1.0 was released in 1985 under the name *Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS)*. The GRASS GIS community was established the same year with the first annual user meeting and the launch of GRASSnet, one of the internet's early mailing lists. The user community expanded to a larger audience in 1991 with the Grasshopper mailing list and the introduction of the World Wide Web. The users' and programmers' mailing lists archives for these early years are still available onlinehttp://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-user/ . In the mid 1990s the development transferred from USA/CERL to The Open GRASS Consortium (a group who would later generalize to become today's Open Geospatial Consortium -- the OGC http://www.opengeospatial.org/). The project coordination eventually shifted to the actual *international development team* made up of governmental and academic researchers and university scientists. Reflecting this shift to a project run by the users, for the users, in 1999 GRASS GIS was released the first time under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). A detailed history of GRASS GIS can be found at http://grass.osgeo.org/history/. Since these early days GRASS development has progressed and grown, adjusting with and often at the forefront of new technologies as they became available. Today GRASS's software development is maintained by a team of domain experts as visualized in this beautiful new video animationhttp://youtu.be/MR4_5GSID2Awhich stylistically details the codebase evolution and modifications from *1999 through to 2013*, up to and including the latest GRASS GIS 6.4.3 stable release. 30 years of active growth: where are we now? Recent versions of GRASS GIS come with exciting new features like: - A *new modern graphical user interfacehttp://grass.osgeo.org/screenshots/user-interface/ * complete with integrated workflow-wizards and interactive tools, - A *new Python interfacehttp://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_and_Python * to the core C geoprocessing libraries, permitting Python developers to create powerful new modules in a quick and simple way, - Fully-fledged *topological vector support*http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/vectorintro.htmlfor editing and tools for topological analysis and data cleaning, - Hundreds of *new modules* to analyze raster and vector data of all scales and types, with hundreds more contributed in an active community repository, - Support for *massive data processing* (e.g. relevant for LiDAR processing) and Large File Support ( 2GB, 64-bit files on 32-bit systems), - A codebase *portable* to all of today's major Operating Systems, - Installed on everything from low-power dataloggers and field laptops to high performance Grid Engines and TOP500 supercomputers. GRASS GIS is currently developed by a global team of around twenty core programmers, plus numerous add-on contributors, testers, and translators. Overall, more than seventy core developers have worked on the code in the past thirty years, making over fifty-thousand modifications to the code. All the while, hundreds more have provided peer review and improvements to algorithms and documentation while using GRASS GIS in professional, educational, and research contexts. Where to next? Development on GRASS GIS continues with as
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Celebrating 30 years of GRASS GIS!
Happy Birth Day GRASS.. Many happy returns. Markus you and all the GRASS team deserve a big applause.. It is GRASS that has spread FOSS GIS to begin with. It is the 1st GRASS users conference, Thailand that has initiated FOSS4G events Ravi From: Markus Neteler nete...@osgeo.org To: GRASS-announce list grass-annou...@lists.osgeo.org Cc: GRASS user list grass-u...@lists.osgeo.org; OSGeo-discuss discuss@lists.osgeo.org; freegis-l...@intevation.de; GRASS developers list grass-...@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 10:02 PM Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Celebrating 30 years of GRASS GIS! Press release 29 July 2013 Today marks 30 years of GRASS GIS development Today the Free Software community celebrates the 30th birthday of GRASS GIS! GRASS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) is a free and open source Geographic Information System (GIS) software suite used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, graphics and map production, spatial modeling, and 3D visualization. GRASS GIS is currently used in academic and commercial settings around the world, as well as by many governmental agencies and environmental consulting companies. GRASS GIS can be used either as a stand-alone application or as backend for other software packages such as QGIS and R geostatistics. It is a founding member of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and can be freely downloaded at http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/. Brief history In 1982, Lloyd Van Warren, a University of Illinois engineering student, began development on a new computer program based on a master's thesis by Jim Westervelt that described a GIS package called LAGRID – the Landscape Architecture Gridcell analysis system. Thirty years ago, on 29 July 1983, the user manual for this new system titled GIS Version 1 Reference Manual was first published by J. Westervelt and M. O'Shea. The software continued its development at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (USA/CERL) in Champaign, Illinois; and after further expansion version 1.0 was released in 1985 under the name Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS). The GRASS GIS community was established the same year with the first annual user meeting and the launch of GRASSnet, one of the internet's early mailing lists. The user community expanded to a larger audience in 1991 with the Grasshopper mailing list and the introduction of the World Wide Web. The users' and programmers' mailing lists archives for these early years are still available online. In the mid 1990s the development transferred from USA/CERL to The Open GRASS Consortium (a group who would later generalize to become today's Open Geospatial Consortium -- the OGC). The project coordination eventually shifted to the actual international development team made up of governmental and academic researchers and university scientists. Reflecting this shift to a project run by the users, for the users, in 1999 GRASS GIS was released the first time under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). A detailed history of GRASS GIS can be found at http://grass.osgeo.org/history/. Since these early days GRASS development has progressed and grown, adjusting with and often at the forefront of new technologies as they became available. Today GRASS's software development is maintained by a team of domain experts as visualized in this beautiful new video animation which stylistically details the codebase evolution and modifications from 1999 through to 2013, up to and including the latest GRASS GIS 6.4.3 stable release. 30 years of active growth: where are we now? Recent versions of GRASS GIS come with exciting new features like: * A new modern graphical user interface complete with integrated workflow-wizards and interactive tools, * A new Python interface to the core C geoprocessing libraries, permitting Python developers to create powerful new modules in a quick and simple way, * Fully-fledged topological vector support for editing and tools for topological analysis and data cleaning, * Hundreds of new modules to analyze raster and vector data of all scales and types, with hundreds more contributed in an active community repository, * Support for massive data processing (e.g. relevant for LiDAR processing) and Large File Support ( 2GB, 64-bit files on 32-bit systems), * A codebase portable to all of today's major Operating Systems, * Installed on everything from low-power dataloggers and field laptops to high performance Grid Engines and TOP500 supercomputers. GRASS GIS is currently developed by a global team of around twenty core programmers, plus numerous add-on contributors, testers, and translators. Overall, more than seventy core developers have worked on the code in the past thirty years, making over fifty-thousand
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Celebrating 30 years of GRASS GIS!
Thanks, Markus and all the pioneers for keeping GRASS alive and kicking for the last 30 years. Looking forward for golden jubilee celebrations in the year 2033. Cheers and Kampai!! Venka On 7/31/2013 1:28 PM, Ravi Kumar wrote: Happy Birth Day GRASS.. Many happy returns. Markus you and all the GRASS team deserve a big applause.. It is GRASS that has spread FOSS GIS to begin with. It is the 1st GRASS users conference, Thailand that has initiated FOSS4G events Ravi From: Markus Neteler nete...@osgeo.org To: GRASS-announce list grass-annou...@lists.osgeo.org Cc: GRASS user list grass-u...@lists.osgeo.org; OSGeo-discuss discuss@lists.osgeo.org; freegis-l...@intevation.de; GRASS developers list grass-...@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 10:02 PM Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Celebrating 30 years of GRASS GIS! Press release 29 July 2013 Today marks 30 years of GRASS GIS development Today the Free Software community celebrates the 30th birthday of GRASS GIS! GRASS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) is a free and open source Geographic Information System (GIS) software suite used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, graphics and map production, spatial modeling, and 3D visualization. GRASS GIS is currently used in academic and commercial settings around the world, as well as by many governmental agencies and environmental consulting companies. GRASS GIS can be used either as a stand-alone application or as backend for other software packages such as QGIS and R geostatistics. It is a founding member of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and can be freely downloaded at http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/. Brief history In 1982, Lloyd Van Warren, a University of Illinois engineering student, began development on a new computer program based on a master's thesis by Jim Westervelt that described a GIS package called LAGRID -- the Landscape Architecture Gridcell analysis system. Thirty years ago, on 29 July 1983, the user manual for this new system titled GIS Version 1 Reference Manual was first published by J. Westervelt and M. O'Shea. The software continued its development at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (USA/CERL) in Champaign, Illinois; and after further expansion version 1.0 was released in 1985 under the name Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS). The GRASS GIS community was established the same year with the first annual user meeting and the launch of GRASSnet, one of the internet's early mailing lists. The user community expanded to a larger audience in 1991 with the Grasshopper mailing list and the introduction of the World Wide Web. The users' and programmers' mailing lists archives for these early years are still available online. In the mid 1990s the development transferred from USA/CERL to The Open GRASS Consortium (a group who would later generalize to become today's Open Geospatial Consortium -- the OGC). The project coordination eventually shifted to the actual international development team made up of governmental and academic researchers and university scientists. Reflecting this shift to a project run by the users, for the users, in 1999 GRASS GIS was released the first time under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). A detailed history of GRASS GIS can be found at http://grass.osgeo.org/history/. Since these early days GRASS development has progressed and grown, adjusting with and often at the forefront of new technologies as they became available. Today GRASS's software development is maintained by a team of domain experts as visualized in this beautiful new video animation which stylistically details the codebase evolution and modifications from 1999 through to 2013, up to and including the latest GRASS GIS 6.4.3 stable release. 30 years of active growth: where are we now? Recent versions of GRASS GIS come with exciting new features like: * A new modern graphical user interface complete with integrated workflow-wizards and interactive tools, * A new Python interface to the core C geoprocessing libraries, permitting Python developers to create powerful new modules in a quick and simple way, * Fully-fledged topological vector support for editing and tools for topological analysis and data cleaning, * Hundreds of new modules to analyze raster and vector data of all scales and types, with hundreds more contributed in an active community repository, * Support for massive data processing (e.g. relevant for LiDAR processing) and Large File Support ( 2GB, 64-bit files on 32-bit systems), * A codebase portable to all of today's major Operating Systems, * Installed on everything from low-power dataloggers and field laptops to high performance Grid Engines and TOP500 supercomputers. GRASS GIS is currently developed by a global team of around
