[GRASS-dev] New splash screen for GRASS GIS 7?

[Helena Mitasova]

I like this one - I think it well represents what GRASS is.  (perhaps GRASS GIS?)

> GRASS. Bringing advanced geospatial technologies to the world.

Helena

Helena Mitasova
Professor at the Department of Marine, 
Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences
and Center for Geospatial Analytics
North Carolina State University
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On Jan 19, 2015, at 11:32 AM, Michael Barton wrote:

> Cool idea.
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> Since GRASS is a global project, how about one of the first truly global like Mercator's of 1569 (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cartography#/image/File:Mercator_1569.png) or Ortelius' of 1570 (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cartography#/image/File:OrteliusWorldMap1570.jpg)?
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> Better images than these from Wikipedia probably exist.
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> With such a map, we could have a slightly different message on the splash screen too. Maybe something like
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> OR
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> GRASS. Advanced geospatial technology for everyone.
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> Anyway. Those are a couple of ideas.
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> Michael
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> On Jan 17, 2015, at 3:58 AM, Yann Chemin <ychemin at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I for one, will welcome our new @!SPLASH!@ ...
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>> Yes +1
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>> any wiki page to submit?
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>> On 17 January 2015 at 16:21, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
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>> I'd suggest, in order to clearly distinguish G6 from G7, to replace
>> the current splash screen for the upcoming G7.0.0 release.
>> We may consider to get community contributions for this.
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>> What do you think?
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>> Markus
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