[GRASS5] The status of 5.0

[Markus Neteler]

On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 09:24:09PM +0000, M Lennert wrote:
> On 25 Mar 02, at 9:54, rgrmill at rt66.com wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Helena wrote:
> > 
> 
> > 
> > > As for the "big GRASS 4 installations" are there any? All those that I 
> > have
> > > known here in the US
> > > had to switch to ESRI products years ago (CERL, NRCS, USGS, etc.),
> > > as it was manadated as a standard for government agencies.
> > 
> > Probably a dark day for GIS development.  What ever happened to MOSS?
> > 
> > The only large GRASS 4 installation I know of is at Blacklands.  I think 
> > the full name is the Blacklands Agricultural Research Station, Texas A&M 
> > University.  It's in Temple, Texas.  They used (are using?) GRASS and 
> > SWAT for watershed simulation of major parts of Texas to assess the 
> > possible water-supply impact from brush control projects.  I came across 
> > them when we needed to review their model of the Canadian River basin.  
> > They sent us several hundred megabytes of GRASS4 and SWAT files.
> > 
> > I've always assumed that Baylor has a functional GRASS4 installation.
> > 
> > I recall from a conversation on this list more than a year ago that 
> > there might be some installations in France and possibly others 
> > elsewhere in Europe.
> > 
> > This is on a barely-related tangent.  A friend of mine once expressed an 
> > interest in using GRASS in his research into the Martian 
> > paleoenvironment.  I thought that was an interesting application.
> > 
> 
> If no one objects, I will launch a survey on the user's list, so that we can try 
> to get an idea. I will have people send the answers to me personally, and will 
> then report back with a summary of the results.
> 
> Here are some (quick) ideas for questions to ask. I don't know if it is better to 
> leave responses open (more varied answers for us) or to give multiple choice 
> of answers (quicker to answer for users) Please comment and add:
> 
> - What do you use Grass for ?
> 
> - How many people use Grass in your environment ?
> 
> - Which version of grass ?
> 
> - If not 5.x, why haven't you switched ?
> 
> - Do you use Grass "as is" or have you adapted it for your usage (i.e. 
> modified/added modules and/or scripts) ?
> 
> - Would you prefer to wait longer and have the developers test Grass5 more 
> thoroughly before its release, or would you prefer a rapid launch with 
> subsequent bug-fixing releases ?

You may have a look at:

http://grass.itc.it/survey.html
(this was disabled, no links to this page for some time). The results
should be available "grass at baylor.edu". Maybe you can ask
for the results of the last two years and continue (eventually
modified).

Markus