[Dutch] FW: [OSGeo-Discuss] Celebrating 30 years of GRASS GIS!

Di Jul 30 23:34:11 PDT 2013

Kijk, daar moeten we eigenlijk wat mee op de OSGeo.nl dag begin november:
ballonnen, champagne, taart.

Wie werpt zich op als de Nederlandse of Vlaamse "Mr. Grass" Of "Mrs Grass"?

Groet, 

Gert-Jan

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Onderwerp: [OSGeo-Discuss] Celebrating 30 years of GRASS GIS!

Press release
29 July 2013

Today marks 30 years of GRASS GIS development

Today the Free Software community celebrates the 30th birthday of GRASS GIS!
GRASS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) is a free and open
source Geographic Information System (GIS) software suite used for
geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, graphics and map
production, spatial modeling, and 3D visualization. GRASS GIS is currently
used in academic and commercial settings around the world, as well as by
many governmental agencies and environmental consulting companies. GRASS GIS
can be used either as a stand-alone application or as backend for other
software packages such as QGIS and R geostatistics. It is a founding member
of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo <http://www.osgeo.org/> )
and can be freely downloaded at http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/.

Afbeelding verwijderd door afzender. 30 YEARS OF GRASS GIS!

Brief history

In 1982, Lloyd Van Warren, a University of Illinois engineering student,
began development on a new computer program based on a master's thesis by
Jim Westervelt that described a GIS package called LAGRID - the Landscape
Architecture Gridcell analysis system. Thirty years ago, on 29 July 1983,
the user manual for this new system titled "GIS Version 1 Reference Manual"
was first published by J. Westervelt and M. O'Shea. The software continued
its development at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering
Research Laboratory (USA/CERL) in Champaign, Illinois; and after further
expansion version 1.0 was released in 1985 under the name Geographic
Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS). The GRASS GIS community was
established the same year with the first annual user meeting and the launch
of GRASSnet, one of the internet's early mailing lists. The user community
expanded to a larger audience in 1991 with the "Grasshopper" mailing list
and the introduction of the World Wide Web. The users' and programmers'
mailing lists archives for these early years are still available online
<http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-user/> .
In the mid 1990s the development transferred from USA/CERL to The Open GRASS
Consortium (a group who would later generalize to become today's Open
Geospatial Consortium -- the OGC <http://www.opengeospatial.org/> ). The
project coordination eventually shifted to the actual international
development team made up of governmental and academic researchers and
university scientists. Reflecting this shift to a project run by the users,
for the users, in 1999 GRASS GIS was released the first time under the terms
of the GNU General Public License (GPL). A detailed history of GRASS GIS can
be found at http://grass.osgeo.org/history/.

Since these early days GRASS development has progressed and grown, adjusting
with and often at the forefront of new technologies as they became
available. Today GRASS's software development is maintained by a team of
domain experts as visualized in this beautiful new video animation
<http://youtu.be/MR4_5GSID2A>  which stylistically details the codebase
evolution and modifications from 1999 through to 2013, up to and including
the latest GRASS GIS 6.4.3 stable release.

30 years of active growth: where are we now?

Recent versions of GRASS GIS come with exciting new features like:

*	A new modern graphical user interface
<http://grass.osgeo.org/screenshots/user-interface/>  complete with
integrated workflow-wizards and interactive tools,
*	A new Python interface
<http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_and_Python>  to the core C
geoprocessing libraries, permitting Python developers to create powerful new
modules in a quick and simple way,
*	Fully-fledged
<http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/vectorintro.html> topological vector
support for editing and tools for topological analysis and data cleaning,
*	Hundreds of new modules to analyze raster and vector data of all
scales and types, with hundreds more contributed in an active community
repository,
*	Support for massive data processing (e.g. relevant for LiDAR
processing) and Large File Support (> 2GB, 64-bit files on 32-bit systems),
*	A codebase portable to all of today's major Operating Systems,
*	Installed on everything from low-power dataloggers and field laptops
to high performance Grid Engines and TOP500 supercomputers.

GRASS GIS is currently developed by a global team of around twenty core
programmers, plus numerous add-on contributors, testers, and translators.
Overall, more than seventy core developers have worked on the code in the
past thirty years, making over fifty-thousand modifications to the code. All
the while, hundreds more have provided peer review and improvements to
algorithms and documentation while using GRASS GIS in professional,
educational, and research contexts.

Where to next?

Development on GRASS GIS continues with as much energy and interest as ever.
<http://grass.osgeo.org/news/28/15/Stable-GRASS-GIS-6-4-3-released/> Version
6.4.3 has been released as a birthday present. Parallel to the long-term
maintenance of the GRASS 6 stable series, effort is well underway on the new
cutting-edge major release,
<http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass7/NewFeatures> GRASS GIS 7, bringing
with it many new features, modules, enhancements, and cleanups. As in the
past, the GRASS GIS community is open to any contribution, be it in the form
of programming, documentation, testing, financial sponsorship or any other
form of support.

 --
 <http://grass.osgeo.org/> http://grass.osgeo.org/
M. Neteler (GRASS GIS PSC Chair) and GRASS Development Team

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