[GRASS-dev] GUI splash heritige

Hamish hamish_b at yahoo.com
Mon Oct 20 23:16:53 EDT 2008


Helena Mitasova wrote:

Hamish:
> > I am looking to document the heritage of the GUI startup splash  
> > screen.
> >
> > Anybody know?  The "Polonia" in the bottom left indicates Poland,  
> > but as it came from Radim I thought perhaps the area is part
> > of Czech now, or...?

Helena:
> there is word Bohemia in the upper right (with the Lion symbol) and  
> even Hungaria in upper left but the image and the title is too fuzzy to
> read. Maybe there is a better version of that image somehwere


ah, now I see big letters on the UL-LR diagonal that spells "SILESIA",

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silesia


is it the Oder River, centered on Breslau?
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Oder.png

Then North would be down on the map (turn it upside down).


Hamish


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