[Portugal] [Fwd: [GRASS-user] GRASS GIS 6.4.0 released]
Giovanni Manghi
giovanni.manghi at gmail.com
Tue Sep 7 18:47:11 EDT 2010
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> Subject: [GRASS-user] GRASS GIS 6.4.0 released
> Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 00:38:08 +0200
>
> Press Release
> The GRASS Development Team announces
> GRASS GIS 6.4.0 released
>
> We are pleased to announce the release of GRASS GIS 6.4.0, the first
> in the new line of 6.4 stable releases. As a stable release 6.4 will
> enjoy long-term support. The next release (6.4.1) will introduce a few
> new features which are still undergoing final testing, but after that
> all further 6.4 releases will be bugfix-only. Due to our highly
> conservative stabilization policy this is the first official version
> of GRASS to introduce new features since October 2006 and supersedes
> the previous stable line of GRASS 6.2. As such the floodgates are open
> and there are many new features to explore and many new structural
> improvements to be found in the software.
>
> GRASS 6.4 brings a number of exciting enhancements to the GIS. Our new
> wxPython graphical user interface (wxGUI) is debuted, Python is now a
> fully supported scripting language, and for the first time since its
> inception with a port from the VAX 11/780 in 1983, GRASS will now run
> natively on a non-UNIX based platform: MS-Windows! In addition to
> bringing the software to a host of new users, the ability to run GRASS
> on any common computer platform furthers our goal of open access to
> the software. We hope you will enjoy the ability to use this program
> on the systems that are most convenient to you and your work.
>
> Due to the freshness of WinGrass there may still be a few rough edges
> yet to discover, but after more than a year of dedicated testing and
> quality-assurance review we are very pleased with the results. Users
> can be confident to use this version for their day to day work, indeed
> due to the open development model many already do. Existing UNIX and
> Mac users will be happy to know that these new features do not disrupt
> the base GIS which remains as solid as ever and fully backwards
> compatible with earlier GRASS 6.0 and 6.2 releases. The venerable
> Tcl/Tk GUIs are also still available if you prefer to use them.
>
> The GRASS software including over 400 built-in analysis modules and
> 100 community supplied add-on modules and toolboxes can be downloaded
> for free from the main GRASS website at http://grass.osgeo.org, or
> from many local mirrors worldwide. In addition to the extensive
> documentation which comes with the software, our Wiki help system
> contains a wealth of user supplied tips and tricks, tutorials, and
> guides.
>
> Since 6.4 entered the testing phase work has begun on GRASS 7 and is
> progressing rapidly, including many new wxGUI improvements and tools
> which we hope to bring over for the upcoming 6.4.1 release.
>
>
> About GRASS GIS
> The Geographic Resources Analysis Support System, commonly referred to
> as GRASS, is a Geographic Information System (GIS) providing powerful
> raster, vector, and geospatial processing engines in 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 presentation
> graphics and hardcopy maps. GRASS has now been translated into twenty
> languages and supports a huge array of data formats.
>
> GRASS is a founding member of The Open Source Geospatial Foundation
> (OSGeo), a non-profit legal entity which has enjoyed extraordinary
> growth. We expect that this formal infrastructure will guarantee that
> the GRASS community will be well supported and vibrant far into the
> future.
>
> 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.
>
> Users are encouraged to study, customize, extend, improve, and (if
> necessary) diagnose and repair the inner workings of any part of the
> program. We believe that scientific progress depends on the
> reproducibility of results, which in turn depends on the unhindered
> ability of the user to know, evaluate, double-check, and learn from
> all algorithms and methodologies used in the process of their work.
>
>
> Screenshots
> * Screenshots of GRASS in action
> Platforms supported by GRASS
> GNU/Linux, Mac OS X/Darwin, Microsoft Windows (native using MinGW or
> with full UNIX support via Cygwin), Sun Solaris (SPARC/Intel), Silicon
> Graphics Irix, HP-UX, DEC-Alpha, AIX, the BSD family, iPAQ/Linux and
> other UNIX compliant platforms. GRASS runs on both 32 and 64 bit
> systems with large data file (>2GB) support for most key modules.
>
>
> Software download/CDROM
> * http://grass.osgeo.org
> * http://grass.ibiblio.org
> * numerous mirror sites
> * GRASS on CDROM/DVD
>
> The new source code is available now and binary packages for major
> operating systems will be published shortly.
>
> For details on GRASS software capabilities please refer to:
> http://grass.osgeo.org/intro/general.php, and the Wiki collaborative
> help system.
>
>
> What's new in GRASS 6.4.0
> (selected improvements from the nearly 9,000 updates to the source
> code)
> * Source code quality/libraries:
> * Many internal adjustments needed for native MS-Windows
> support, for example safely handling spaces in file
> names.
> * Programmer's Manual: continued Doxygen integration and
> automated generation into PDF and HTML formats.
> Publicly available for download and perusal.
> * Improved policies for code submission specified in the
> SUBMITTING files for documentation, Python, Tcl/Tk,
> and shell scripts
> * New Python scripting language library containing many
> helper functions
> * All modules: --quiet and --verbose message modes
> * All modules: --script flag generates boilerplate for
> shell scripts with parser and GUI support
> * Batch mode for launching GRASS for non-interactive
> processing tasks
> * DBMI: SQL parser extended (support for DROP COLUMN,
> ASC/DESC keyword in ORDER BY clause, etc.)
> * Partial differential equations library with OpenMP
> multi-processor support
> * Major clean-up of the display architecture (libraries
> and drivers): the drivers no longer maintain a
> palette; all colors are now specified directly as
> R/G/B values
> * The "default" datum transformation parameters are now
> first in the list instead of last
> * Ability to create new locations using EPSG codes with
> the g.proj module
> * Message translation (i18N): many new translated
> messages, new languages including Vietnamese and
> Arabic
> * Documentation/man pages: various fixes and
> improvements (more examples added, including graphics,
> improved style, new introductory pages)
> * Documentation: various terminology issues fixed and
> terms unified
> * Symbols: A number of new icons, support for symbol
> rotation
> * Graphical User Interface (GUI):
> * g.gui: New frontend command to launch GUI sessions
> * wxPython GUI:
> * Complete GUI rewrite in Python/wxWidgets
> * gis.m Tcl/Tk GUI:
> * GIS manager extended with mouse placement of
> text and scale bars and menu updates
> * Updated Tcl/Tk profile and georectification
> GUI tools
> * New interactive command console with output
> window
> * New interfaces for interactive raster
> reclassification, raster recoding, custom
> raster color rules, and vector
> reclassification
> * New animation tool to display raster map
> series as an animation
> * Improved startup screen and interface, including
> searchable EPSG codes list and better custom datum
> support
> * NVIZ: Major revamp of interface; output directly to
> MPEG or other FFmpeg supported formats
> * QGIS integration: GRASS toolbox extended, available
> from Quantum GIS
> * Drivers:
> * DBF driver: extended column type support
> * HTMLMAP display driver: NEW - Prepares clickable HTML
> image map templates (port from GRASS 5)
> * PostScript display driver: NEW - Renders display
> directly into a PostScript or Encapsulated PostScript
> file
> * Cairo display driver: NEW - Renders display directly
> into a number of image formats using the Cairo
> rendering engine
> * New and major updates for modules and scripts since GRASS
> 6.2.3:
> * db.dropcol: NEW - Drops a column from selected
> attribute table
> * db.droptable: NEW - Drops an attribute table
> * db.in.ogr: NEW - Imports attribute tables in various
> formats
> * db.login: Support for interactive password entry
> (invisible passwords)
> * db.out.ogr: NEW - Exports attribute tables into
> various formats
> * d.barscale: North arrow for lat/lon locations
> * d.out.file: Expanded to use the Cairo and PostScript
> display drivers to allow export to ps, eps, svg, and
> pdf formats
> * d.path: Support for use from GUI and non-interactive
> mode
> * d.rast.edit: Rewritten in Tcl/Tk
> * d.shadedmap: NEW - Drapes a semi-transparent raster
> over a shaded relief map
> * d.text, d.font: Updated to accept TrueType fonts and
> maintain a database of system fonts
> * g.dirseps: NEW - Internal utility for converting
> directory characters (MS-Windows)
> * g.extension: NEW - Utility for downloading and
> installing Add-on modules
> * g.findetc: NEW - Internal utility for locating support
> files
> * g.gui: NEW - Launches a GRASS graphical user interface
> (GUI) session
> * g.message: NEW - Internal utility for printing quiet
> and verbose messages in scripts
> * g.mkfontcap: NEW - Internal utility for generating a
> list of available system fonts
> * g.mremove: Support for use from GUI
> * i.atcorr: NEW - Performs atmospheric correction using
> the 6S algorithm
> * i.landsat.rgb: Vast speed improvement
> * ps.map: Various improvements including new map border
> control, rotated and scaled symbols, and allowing
> geogrid from lat/lon locations
> * r3.gwflow: NEW - Models transient, confined
> groundwater flow in three dimensions
> * r3.stats: NEW - Generates volume statistics for
> raster3d maps
> * r3.univar: NEW - Calculates univariate statistics from
> the cells of a 3D raster map
> * r.bilinear: This module has been replaced by
> r.resamp.interp
> * r.category: NEW - Manages raster map category values
> and labels (replaces r.cats)
> * r.colors: Support for equalized histogram, reversed,
> logarithmically scaled, rules-from-file, and more
> * r.gwflow: NEW - Models transient, confined groundwater
> flow in two dimensions
> * r.in.wms: Various fixes and more robust when dealing
> with flaky WMS servers
> * r.in.xyz: Support for extended statistics
> * r.le suite: Various fixes and modernization
> * r.li suite: NEW - Advanced toolset for multiscale
> analysis of landscape structure.
> Including single and multi-processor enabled modules:
> r.li.cwed, r.li.dominance, r.li.edgedensity, r.li.mpa,
> r.li.mps, r.li.padcv, r.li.padrange, r.li.padsd,
> r.li.patchdensity, r.li.patchnum, r.li.richness,
> r.li.setup, r.li.shannon, r.li.shape, and
> r.li.simpson
> * r.mfilter.fp: NEW - Raster map custom matrix filter
> (floating point version)
> * r.out.gdal: New C implementation replaces shell script
> version, region sensitive with color export ability
> * r.out.xyz: NEW - Exports a raster map to a text file
> as x,y,z values based on cell centers
> * r.profile: Report data outside the current region as
> invalid
> * r.proj: Replaced with an improved version
> * r.resamp.interp: NEW - Resamples raster map layers to
> a finer grid using interpolation
> * r.resamp.stats: NEW - Resamples raster map layers to a
> coarser grid using aggregation
> * r.support: Enhanced control of meta-data
> * r.support.stats: NEW - Support module which updates
> raster map statistics
> * r.univar: Support for extended statistics
> * r.watershed: Vast speed improvement
> * r.what.color: NEW - Queries colors for a raster map
> layer
> * v.db.dropcol: NEW - Drops a column from the attribute
> table connected to a given vector map
> * v.db.join: NEW - Allows to join a table to a vector
> map table
> * v.db.renamecol: NEW - Renames a column in the
> attribute table connected to a given vector map
> * v.db.univar: NEW - Calculates univariate statistics on
> selected table column for a vector map
> * v.digit (Tcl/Tk): Rewritten for use without X11
> * v.digit (wxPython): NEW - All new vector map digitizer
> rewritten in wxPython
> * v.edit: NEW - Edits a vector map, allows adding,
> deleting and modifying selected vector features
> * v.generalize: NEW - Generalization of vector features
> using a number of smoothing techniques
> * v.in.db: More efficient implementation of the where=
> option
> * v.in.wfs: NEW - Import GetFeatures from WFS format
> * v.net.visibility: NEW - Visibility graph construction
> * v.out.svg: NEW - Exports a vector map to SVG format
> * v.proj: Better handling of z coordinates in 3-D
> vectors
> * v.support: NEW - Updates vector map metadata
> * v.surf.idw, v.surf.bspline, and v.surf.rst: Work with
> massive datasets imported without topology (e.g.
> LIDAR)
> * v.to.3d: NEW - Performs transformation of 2D vector
> features to 3D
>
> A more detailed description of changes can be found in the previous
> announcements of the GRASS 6.3 development preview release and the
> GRASS 6.4.0 release candidate series.
>
> For a comprehensive list of changes see the 6.4 ChangeLog file.
>
> For a complete list of commands available in GRASS 6.4.0 see the
> online manuals and the GRASS 6.4 module list.
>
>
> We are always looking for testers, code developers, and technical
> writers to help us maintain and accelerate the development cycle. The
> GRASS GIS project is developed under the terms of the GNU General
> Public License (the GPL) in the open 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.
>
> Release history:
>
> * GRASS GIS 6.4.0RC1 released 23 Dec 2008
> * GRASS GIS 6.4.0RC2 released 12 Jan 2009
> * GRASS GIS 6.4.0RC3 released 26 Jan 2009
> * GRASS GIS 6.4.0RC4 released 12 Apr 2009
> * GRASS GIS 6.4.0RC5 released 9 Jun 2009
> * GRASS GIS 6.4.0RC6 released 20 Mar 2010
> * GRASS GIS 6.4.0RC7 released 27 Aug 2010
> * GRASS GIS 6.4.0 released 3 September 2010 (see also technical
> announcement)
>
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