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GRASS GIS releases version 6.2.3

27 November 2007
https://grass.osgeo.org

The development team is happy to announce that a new bugfix version of GRASS GIS has been released today. 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 and projection database.

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 (from 6.3.0 onwards).

The Geographic Resources Analysis Support System, commonly referred to as GRASS, is a Geographic Information System (GIS) combining powerful raster, vector, remote sensing and and geospatial processing engines into a single integrated software suite. GRASS 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 4D presentation graphics and hardcopy maps.

GRASS is currently used around the world in academic and commercial settings as well as by many governmental agencies and environmental consulting companies. It runs on a variety of popular hardware platforms and is Free open-source software released under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

GRASS is a proposed founding project of the new Open Source Geospatial Foundation. In support of the movement towards consolidation in the open source geospatial software world, GRASS is tightly integrated with the latest GDAL/OGR libraries. This enables access to an extensive range of raster and vector formats, including OGC-conformal Simple Features. GRASS also makes use of the highly regarded PROJ.4 software library with support for most known map projections and the easy definition of new and rare map projections via custom parameterization. Strong links are maintained with the QuantumGIS and R Statistics projects with integrated GRASS toolkits available for both.

Software download at https://grass.osgeo.org/download/ and numerous
mirror sites.

Full story at https://grass.osgeo.org/announces/announce_grass623.html

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New GRASS Book published: Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach

The new edition of Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach is now available! With this third edition, we enter the new era of GRASS 6, the first release that includes substantial new code developed by the International GRASS Development Team. The dramatic growth in open source software libraries has made GRASS 6 development more efficient, and has enhanced GRASS interoperability with a wide range of open source and proprietary geospatial tools. The book is based on GRASS 6.3.

Thoroughly updated with material related to GRASS6, the third edition includes new sections on attribute database management and SQL support, vector networks analysis, lidar data processing and new graphical user interfaces. All chapters are updated with numerous practical examples using the first release of a comprehensive, state-of-the-art geospatial data set. This new OSGeo Educational data set along with additional material can be downloaded from https://www.grassbook.org/

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winGRASS 6.3.0RC1 and QGIS 0.9.0 now available

A MS-Windows native binary of the current 6.3.0 Release Candidate 1 is now available at:
https://geog-pc40.ulb.ac.be/grass/wingrass/wingrass63RC1.zip
Read the README for installation, known issues and other information. This version no longer requires a n installation of Cygwin.

The QGIS team announces the release of QGIS 0.9.0 (the package for MS-Windows contains GRASS 6.3.0RC1). The QGIS team offers also packages for Linux and MacOSX.

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GRASS GIS: Vector network analysis significantly easier now

Also getting mad to connect your vector points to the graph? Stuff like “node is unreachable”? Same thing here, till last week. In GRASS 6.3 (still CVS), the v.net tool was extended to easily connect nodes to a graph. Just specify the vector network map and the nodes map along with a distance threshold to only connect in a reasonable way.

Screenshot examples for GRASS vector networking can be seen here: travelling salesman analysis, Steiner Trees, and Iso-distances. Enjoy.

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First combined GRASS-News / OSGeo-News volume published

The GRASS-News editors and OSGeo Promotion and Visibility Committee announce the first combined GRASS-News / OSGeo-News volume. You can find the full pdf (5.3 MB) as well as PDFs of individual articles on the GRASS webpage:
https://grass.itc.it/newsletter/index.php
or directly via:
https://www.osgeo.org/content/news/news_archive/GRASS_OSGeo_News_vol4.pdf

A first edition of OSGeo-News will be published in 2007 with interesting articles covering various topics of OpenSource projects. Please visit https://www.osgeo.org in the next couple of weeks to find more detailed information how to submit articles.

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GRASS GIS releases version 6.2.1

GRASS 6.2.1 is a new stable release which fixes several bugs discovered in the 6.2.0 source code. This release is solely for stability purposes and adds no new features. Besides bug fixes it also includes a number of new message translations, updates for the help pages, and will better handle errors caused by missing or incorrectly installed support software. It also introduces a new 3D raster module which was left out of the last release due to time constraints.

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.

The GRASS GIS project is developed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (the GPL) by volunteers the world over. GRASS differs from many other GIS software packages used in the professional world in that it is developed and distributed by users for users, mostly on a volunteer basis, in the open, and is given away for free. Emphasis is placed on interoperability and unlimited access to data as well as on software flexibility and evolution rate. The source code is freely available allowing for immediate customization, examination of the underlying algorithms, addition of new features, and fast bug fixing.

GRASS is currently used around the world in academic and commercial settings as well as by many governmental agencies and environmental consulting companies.

Software download at https://grass.itc.it/download/ and numerous mirror sites.

Full story at https://grass.itc.it/announces/announce_grass621.html

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PyWPS 1.0.0 released: GRASS goes Web

Today PyWPS 1.0.0 has been released by Jachym Cepicky. PyWPS (Python Web Processing Service) implements the OGC Web Processing Service (WPS) standard in Python programming language. It has been written with native support for GRASS GIS which allows for accessing GRASS modules via Web. Processes can be run asynchronously. By default, GRASS GIS is supported, other tools (R, GDAL/OGR, PROJ.4, …) can be configured, too.

A first demo application can be seen here: WUIW – a PyWPS AJAX Web Interface.

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New QGIS Native Windows package with GRASS GIS Support

Tim Sutton reports that he has packaged QGIS as native Windows version bundled with GRASS GIS. Details are available in his blog, and the package with installer can be downloaded.

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GRASS GIS 6.2.0 released 31 Oct 2006

https://grass.itc.it

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.

The GRASS GIS project is developed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (the GPL) by volunteers the world over. GRASS differs from many other GIS software packages used in the professional world in that it is developed and distributed by users for users, mostly on a volunteer basis, in the open, and is given away for free. Emphasis is placed on interoperability and unlimited access to data as well as on software flexibility and evolution rate. The source code is freely available allowing for immediate customization, examination of the underlying algorithms, addition of new features, and fast bug fixing.

GRASS is used around the world in academic and commercial settings as well as by many governmental agencies and environmental consulting companies.

The software can be downloaded from https://grass.itc.it/download/ , https://grass.ibiblio.org/download/ and numerous mirror sites.

Thanks to all developers, testers and (new) users!

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GRASS GIS News RSS feed available

Finally also the GRASS GIS Web site comes with RSS feed https://web.archive.org/web/20100729133210/https://grass.itc.it/rss.xml). All in preparation of the 6.2.0 release to be expected in hopefully a couple of hours…

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