[OSGeo-Discuss] GRASS GIS 7.6.0 released

2019-01-22 Thread Markus Neteler 
 * We are pleased to announce the GRASS GIS 7.6.0 release *

*What's new in a nutshell*

After almost 1 year of development the *new stable release GRASS GIS 7.6.0*
is available. Efforts have concentrated on making the user experience even
better, providing many new useful additional functionalities to modules and
further improving the graphical user interface. Furthermore, ZSTD has been
added a new raster compression method which is an improvement over ZLIB's
deflate method, providing both faster and higher compression than ZLIB.
Also a new raster map type has been added: GRASS virtual raster (VRT) which
is a virtual mosaic of the list of input raster maps. In addition, support
for PROJ v. 5 has been implemented.

An *overview* of the *new features* in the 7.6 release series is available
at new features in GRASS GIS 7.6
.
*Binaries/Installer download:*

   - winGRASS 7.6.0: 32bit standalone installer
   

   | 64bit standalone installer
   

   - winGRASS 7.6.0 OSGeo4W: 32bit OSGeo4W installer
    | 64bit
   OSGeo4W installer
   
   - Fedora and EPEL7
    (CentOS7,
   RHEL7, ...)
   - Linux Mint: see Ubuntu
   - Ubuntu
   
   (ubuntugis-unstable)
   - Max OS X  (fully bundled
   binaries)
   -
*... further binary packages for other Linux distributions will follow
   shortly, please check at software downloads
   . *

*Source code download:*

   - https://grass.osgeo.org/grass76/source/
   - https://grass.osgeo.org/grass76/source/grass-7.6.0.tar.gz
   - To get the GRASS GIS 7.6.0 source code directly from SVN, see here
   .

*More details:*

See also our detailed announcement:
https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/7.6.0-News
https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass7/NewFeatures76 (overview of new 7.6
stable release series)
https://grass.osgeo.org/grass7/manuals/addons/ (list of available addons)

First time users may explore the first steps tutorial
 after installation.

*About GRASS GIS*

The Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (https://grass.osgeo.org/),
commonly referred to as GRASS GIS, is an Open Source Geographic Information
System providing powerful raster, vector and geospatial processing
capabilities in a single integrated software suite. GRASS GIS includes
tools for spatial modeling, visualization of raster and vector data,
management and analysis of geospatial data, and the processing of satellite
and aerial imagery. It also provides the capability to produce
sophisticated presentation graphics and hardcopy maps. GRASS GIS has been
translated into about twenty languages and supports a huge array of data
formats. It can be used either as a stand-alone application or as backend
for other software packages such as QGIS and R geostatistics. It is
distributed freely under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
GRASS GIS is a founding member of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation
(OSGeo).

*The GRASS Development Team, January 2019*
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Gender neutral default image on webpage

2019-01-22 Thread Tom Chadwin 
Disagree with Barry - I do like it. However, I do think the high-contrast 
design means the placeholders can overpower the actual photos. I would 
definitely knock back the darkness of the background colour, and probably knock 
back the whole thing a fair bit. I'm thinking that the palette should reflect a 
disabled icon or menu item in a GUI, so be faded. Other than that, I really 
like it.

Thanks

Tom


> -Original Message-
> From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Barry
> Rowlingson
> Sent: 22 January 2019 08:36
> To: Vicky Vergara
> Cc: OSGeo Discuss list
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Gender neutral default image on webpage
>
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 4:53 AM Vicky Vergara 
> wrote:
> >
> > Hello all
> > I made a gender neutral default image representing an OSGeo member.
> > Hope you like it.
>
> Not sure I do like it! The head is so large compared to the body, and
> the body so devoid of feature I don't immediately read it as an
> abstract human representation. I'm almost reading it as a lower-case
> 'i'. Plus the logo is ever so slightly off-center from the circle
> which is triggering my OCD tendencies a bit.
>
> Maybe if the body was a bit larger and connected to the head. It is a
> very bold and high-contrast design, and appears very large on the page
> so the overall impact is quite massive. Maybe if the icons were
> smaller it wouldn't matter so much, but as the page is currently my
> browser shows only four people on a screen at once, and most of that
> is avatars and fairly empty squares with names in. Sorry if I've
> drifted off topic into the web page design now
>
>  Happy to tweak it a bit if you've got an Inkscape SVG to share.
>
> Barry
>
>
>
> > On this page
> > https://www.osgeo.org/community/members/
> > The image is shown when the member does not have an libavatar . (work
> in progress, on displaying the uploaded image on this page)
> >
> > On the profile page, the
> > libavatar  takes precedence
> > if not found then uploaded image
> > if not found then the default image is used
> >
> > Regards
> > Vicky
> >
> >
> > --
> >
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> >
> > Vicky Vergara
> > Operations Research
> >
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> > Web: https://georepublic.info
> >
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> > Fax: +49 (089) 4161 7698-9
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Gender neutral default image on webpage

2019-01-22 Thread Barry Rowlingson 
On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 4:53 AM Vicky Vergara  wrote:
>
> Hello all
> I made a gender neutral default image representing an OSGeo member.
> Hope you like it.

Not sure I do like it! The head is so large compared to the body, and
the body so devoid of feature I don't immediately read it as an
abstract human representation. I'm almost reading it as a lower-case
'i'. Plus the logo is ever so slightly off-center from the circle
which is triggering my OCD tendencies a bit.

Maybe if the body was a bit larger and connected to the head. It is a
very bold and high-contrast design, and appears very large on the page
so the overall impact is quite massive. Maybe if the icons were
smaller it wouldn't matter so much, but as the page is currently my
browser shows only four people on a screen at once, and most of that
is avatars and fairly empty squares with names in. Sorry if I've
drifted off topic into the web page design now

 Happy to tweak it a bit if you've got an Inkscape SVG to share.

Barry



> On this page
> https://www.osgeo.org/community/members/
> The image is shown when the member does not have an libavatar . (work in 
> progress, on displaying the uploaded image on this page)
>
> On the profile page, the
> libavatar  takes precedence
> if not found then uploaded image
> if not found then the default image is used
>
> Regards
> Vicky
>
>
> --
>
> Georepublic UG (haftungsbeschränkt)
> Salzmannstraße 44,
> 81739 München, Germany
>
> Vicky Vergara
> Operations Research
>
> eMail: vi...@georepublic.de
> Web: https://georepublic.info
>
> Tel: +49 (089) 4161 7698-1
> Fax: +49 (089) 4161 7698-9
>
> Commercial register: Amtsgericht München, HRB 181428
> CEO: Daniel Kastl
>
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