Re: [GRASS-dev] Make it clearer that GRASS 7.0 is the version to go for now
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 2:23 AM, Vaclav Petras wenzesl...@gmail.com wrote: The news page [1] contains link to GRASS GIS packages in OSGeo4W which is great if you already have OSGeo4W but you have to figure out how to download it. What about: winGRASS 7.0.0: standalone installer | OSGeo4W installer (description of GRASS GIS packages) ... the line would become very long then. For now I simplified it to winGRASS which points to http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/ms-windows/ In case we should improve that page. Markus where OSGeo4W installer goes to [3] and description of GRASS GIS packages goes to [2]? [1] http://grass.osgeo.org/news/42/15/GRASS-GIS-7-0-0/ [2] http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki/pkg-grass [3] http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ ___ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
Re: [GRASS-dev] Make it clearer that GRASS 7.0 is the version to go for now
On Feb 24, 2015 8:31 PM, Vaclav Petras wenzesl...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Paulo van Breugel p.vanbreu...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 6:17 PM, Markus Neteler nete...@osgeo.org wrote: All done, see again http://grass.osgeo.org/documentation/general-overview Markus PS: the Wikipedia update I'll leave to others I made some changes to the Wikipedia page, please have a look if OK. As it includes a history section, it might be nice to add a brief overview of when the different versions where released, perhaps with some key improvements. Is there anywhere such an overview (I admittedly haven't looked hard, just came up as an idea). I know about one historical document Just enjoy the history page at grass.osgeo.org :) Markus ___ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
Re: [GRASS-dev] Make it clearer that GRASS 7.0 is the version to go for now
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Markus Neteler nete...@osgeo.org wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Paulo van Breugel p.vanbreu...@gmail.com wrote: On http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/sources/ it reads: GRASS GIS 6.4 (stable): Most users will want to install this officially released version. GRASS GIS 7.0 (new stable): New stable. See announcement. Very promising (see New Features) and usually works. Should this be changed, Sure! All done. It was simply a leftover ... Thanks for the notification. Markus, we should also change the subtitle to what is in the splash screen: Bringing advanced geospatial technologies to the world. Others, feel free to go through the website and catch obsolete info such as what is current release. There might be more. Vaclav ___ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
Re: [GRASS-dev] Make it clearer that GRASS 7.0 is the version to go for now
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 4:25 PM, Margherita Di Leo direg...@gmail.com wrote: Probably also http://grass.osgeo.org/documentation/general-overview/#AboutGRASS6 http://grass.osgeo.org/documentation/general-overview/#AboutGRASS7 Should be updated accordingly. (GRASS GIS 7 is under development with a first releases in preparation) Perhaps the about GRASS6 should become less visible, as now is the first that meets the eye. Modifications done. Please check (and suggest if further changes desired). Markus -- http://courses.neteler.org http://gis.cri.fmach.it/neteler/ ___ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
Re: [GRASS-dev] Make it clearer that GRASS 7.0 is the version to go for now
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 4:15 PM, Vaclav Petras wenzesl...@gmail.com wrote: Markus, we should also change the subtitle to what is in the splash screen: Bringing advanced geospatial technologies to the world. Done! Others, feel free to go through the website and catch obsolete info such as what is current release. There might be more. Yes, thanks Markus ___ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
Re: [GRASS-dev] Make it clearer that GRASS 7.0 is the version to go for now
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Paulo van Breugel p.vanbreu...@gmail.com wrote: On http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/sources/ it reads: GRASS GIS 6.4 (stable): Most users will want to install this officially released version. GRASS GIS 7.0 (new stable): New stable. See announcement. Very promising (see New Features) and usually works. Should this be changed, Sure! All done. It was simply a leftover ... Thanks for the notification. Markus ___ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
Re: [GRASS-dev] Make it clearer that GRASS 7.0 is the version to go for now
Hi, On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 4:15 PM, Vaclav Petras wenzesl...@gmail.com wrote: Others, feel free to go through the website and catch obsolete info such as what is current release. There might be more. Probably also http://grass.osgeo.org/documentation/general-overview/#AboutGRASS6 http://grass.osgeo.org/documentation/general-overview/#AboutGRASS7 Should be updated accordingly. (*GRASS GIS 7* is under development with a first releases in preparation) Perhaps the about GRASS6 should become less visible, as now is the first that meets the eye. -- Best regards, Dr. Margherita DI LEO Scientific / technical project officer European Commission - DG JRC Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES) Via Fermi, 2749 I-21027 Ispra (VA) - Italy - TP 261 Tel. +39 0332 78 3600 margherita.di-...@jrc.ec.europa.eu Disclaimer: The views expressed are purely those of the writer and may not in any circumstance be regarded as stating an official position of the European Commission. ___ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
Re: [GRASS-dev] Make it clearer that GRASS 7.0 is the version to go for now
Paulo van Breugel wrote: On http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/sources/ it reads: GRASS GIS 6.4 (stable): Most users will want to install this officially released version. GRASS GIS 7.0 (new stable): New stable. See announcement. Very promising (see New Features) and usually works. Should this be changed, Absolutely! with GRASS GIS 7.0 being the version that most users want to install? Please, rephrase also thw usually works bits. Nikos And I would change GRASS GIS 6.4 (stable) to GRASS GIS 6.4 (previous version). This makes it implicitly clear that it is stable version too, but more relevant, it emphasizes that people should start using GRASS 7 ___ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
[GRASS-dev] Make it clearer that GRASS 7.0 is the version to go for now
On http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/sources/ it reads: GRASS GIS 6.4 (stable): Most users will want to install this officially released version. GRASS GIS 7.0 (new stable): New stable. See announcement. Very promising (see New Features) and usually works. Should this be changed, with GRASS GIS 7.0 being the version that most users want to install? And I would change GRASS GIS 6.4 (stable) to GRASS GIS 6.4 (previous version). This makes it implicitly clear that it is stable version too, but more relevant, it emphasizes that people should start using GRASS 7 ___ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
Re: [GRASS-dev] Make it clearer that GRASS 7.0 is the version to go for now
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Markus Neteler nete...@osgeo.org wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 4:25 PM, Margherita Di Leo direg...@gmail.com wrote: Probably also http://grass.osgeo.org/documentation/general-overview/#AboutGRASS6 http://grass.osgeo.org/documentation/general-overview/#AboutGRASS7 Should be updated accordingly. (GRASS GIS 7 is under development with a first releases in preparation) Perhaps the about GRASS6 should become less visible, as now is the first that meets the eye. Agree, and therefore I would put 'About GRASS GIS 7' first, followed by the 'About GRASS GIS 6' paragraph (or leave the latter out altogether). That paragraph also links to the wikipedia about GRASS should perhaps be added to the paragraph 'About GRASS GIS 7' instead (The *GRASS GIS 7* (Wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRASS_GIS) ...). And there is a small typo in that paragraph: A full temporal framwork - e missing in framework. This btw means the Wikipedia article should be adapted too. I would suggest the sentence 'GRASS 6.4.0 introduced a new generation of graphical user interface called *wxGUI*. wxGUI is designed using Python http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_%28programming_language%29 programming language and wxPython http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WxPython graphical library' should be replaced with the short description, perhaps based on the above mentioned 'About GRASS GIS 7' paragraph?, i.e., The latest stable release version (LTS) is GRASS GIS 7, which is available since 2015. It offers, amongst others, large data support, an improved topological 2D/3D vector engine and much improved vector network analysis. Attributes are managed by default in SQLite format. The display manager has been improved for usability. The NVIZ visualization tool was completely rewritten. Image processing has also been improved. A full temporal framework has been added. See more details at New Features https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass7/NewFeatures. Anybody who normally takes care of that? Modifications done. Please check (and suggest if further changes desired). Markus -- http://courses.neteler.org http://gis.cri.fmach.it/neteler/ ___ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
Re: [GRASS-dev] Make it clearer that GRASS 7.0 is the version to go for now
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 5:23 PM, Paulo van Breugel p.vanbreu...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Markus Neteler nete...@osgeo.org wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 4:25 PM, Margherita Di Leo direg...@gmail.com wrote: Probably also http://grass.osgeo.org/documentation/general-overview/#AboutGRASS6 http://grass.osgeo.org/documentation/general-overview/#AboutGRASS7 Should be updated accordingly. (GRASS GIS 7 is under development with a first releases in preparation) Perhaps the about GRASS6 should become less visible, as now is the first that meets the eye. Agree, and therefore I would put 'About GRASS GIS 7' first, followed by the 'About GRASS GIS 6' paragraph (or leave the latter out altogether). That paragraph also links to the wikipedia about GRASS should perhaps be added to the paragraph 'About GRASS GIS 7' instead (The *GRASS GIS 7* (Wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRASS_GIS) ...). And there is a small typo in that paragraph: A full temporal framwork - e missing in framework. This btw means the Wikipedia article should be adapted too. I would suggest the sentence 'GRASS 6.4.0 introduced a new generation of graphical user interface called *wxGUI*. wxGUI is designed using Python http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_%28programming_language%29 programming language and wxPython http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WxPython graphical library' should be replaced with the short description, perhaps based on the above mentioned 'About GRASS GIS 7' paragraph?, i.e., The latest stable release version (LTS) is GRASS GIS 7, which is available since 2015. It offers, amongst others, large data support, an improved topological 2D/3D vector engine and much improved vector network analysis. Attributes are managed by default in SQLite format. The display manager has been improved for usability. The NVIZ visualization tool was completely rewritten. Image processing has also been improved. A full temporal framework has been added. See more details at New Features https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass7/NewFeatures. I agree with all these changes and I would bring the sentence: GRASS GIS 6.x is the old stable version. as starting sentence of the paragraph GRASS GIS 6. -- Best regards, Dr. Margherita DI LEO Scientific / technical project officer European Commission - DG JRC Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES) Via Fermi, 2749 I-21027 Ispra (VA) - Italy - TP 261 Tel. +39 0332 78 3600 margherita.di-...@jrc.ec.europa.eu Disclaimer: The views expressed are purely those of the writer and may not in any circumstance be regarded as stating an official position of the European Commission. ___ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
Re: [GRASS-dev] Make it clearer that GRASS 7.0 is the version to go for now
All done, see again http://grass.osgeo.org/documentation/general-overview Markus PS: the Wikipedia update I'll leave to others ___ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
Re: [GRASS-dev] Make it clearer that GRASS 7.0 is the version to go for now
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 6:17 PM, Markus Neteler nete...@osgeo.org wrote: All done, see again http://grass.osgeo.org/documentation/general-overview Markus PS: the Wikipedia update I'll leave to others I made some changes to the Wikipedia page, please have a look if OK. As it includes a history section, it might be nice to add a brief overview of when the different versions where released, perhaps with some key improvements. Is there anywhere such an overview (I admittedly haven't looked hard, just came up as an idea). ___ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
Re: [GRASS-dev] Make it clearer that GRASS 7.0 is the version to go for now
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Paulo van Breugel p.vanbreu...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 6:17 PM, Markus Neteler nete...@osgeo.org wrote: All done, see again http://grass.osgeo.org/documentation/general-overview Markus PS: the Wikipedia update I'll leave to others I made some changes to the Wikipedia page, please have a look if OK. As it includes a history section, it might be nice to add a brief overview of when the different versions where released, perhaps with some key improvements. Is there anywhere such an overview (I admittedly haven't looked hard, just came up as an idea). I know about one historical document if somebody would like to dig in but it is not feature-focused AFAIK. http://geni.isnew.info/grass/Jim-Westervelt.pdf ___ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
Re: [GRASS-dev] Make it clearer that GRASS 7.0 is the version to go for now
The news page [1] contains link to GRASS GIS packages in OSGeo4W which is great if you already have OSGeo4W but you have to figure out how to download it. What about: winGRASS 7.0.0: standalone installer | OSGeo4W installer (description of GRASS GIS packages) where OSGeo4W installer goes to [3] and description of GRASS GIS packages goes to [2]? [1] http://grass.osgeo.org/news/42/15/GRASS-GIS-7-0-0/ [2] http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki/pkg-grass [3] http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ ___ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
