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The GRASS GIS team announced the release of GRASS GIS 6.3.0. From the announcement: "Officially this is a "technology preview" release, the first beta on the path to GRASS 6.4-stable, and it also marks the start of work on GRASS 7. As such GRASS 6.3.0 is not intended to be a stable release with ongoing support, but after five months of 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.
Besides the hundreds of new module features, supported data formats, and language translations, GRASS 6.3 brings a number of exciting enhancements to the GIS. A prototype of the new wxPython user interface is debuted, and for the first time since its inception with a port from the VAX 11/780 in 1983, GRASS will run on a non-UNIX based platform: MS-Windows. This is currently still in an experimental state and we hope that widespread testing of 6.3.0 will mean the 6.4 release of WinGRASS will be fully functional and robust. 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 GRASS 6.2 releases." See also related stories below.
Besides the hundreds of new module features, supported data formats, and language translations, GRASS 6.3 brings a number of exciting enhancements to the GIS. A prototype of the new wxPython user interface is debuted, and for the first time since its inception with a port from the VAX 11/780 in 1983, GRASS will run on a non-UNIX based platform: MS-Windows. This is currently still in an experimental state and we hope that widespread testing of 6.3.0 will mean the 6.4 release of WinGRASS will be fully functional and robust. 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 GRASS 6.2 releases." See also related stories below.
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The powerful open source GRASS GIS team has just released version 6.2.3: "This release fixes a number of bugs discovered in the 6.2.2 source code. It is primarily for stability purposes and adds minimal new features. Besides bug fixes it also includes a number of new message translations and updates for the help pages. Highlights include further maturation of the GRASS 6 GUI, vector, and database code. Some improvements have been backported from the GRASS 6.3 development branch where new development continues at a strong pace of approximately one code commit every hour, including major work on an all new cross-platform wxPython GUI and a native MS Windows port." Below I copied a few related previous stories.
Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach
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The GRASS GIS mailing list informs us the book "Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach" has released a third edition. The table of contents: "Contents: 1 Open Source software and GIS; 2 GIS concepts; 3 Getting started with GRASS; 4 GRASS data models and data exchange; 5 Working with raster data; 6 Working with vector data; 7 Graphical output and visualization; 8 Image processing; 9 Notes on GRASS programming; 10 Using GRASS with other Open Source tools; Appendix; References; Index." See below for other GRASS GIS related stories.
QGIS 0.9.1 Released
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I'm happy to read the OSGeo's open source Quantum GIS (QGIS) 0.9.1 was officially released a week ago. From the announcement: "This is primarily a bug fix release and includes the following key changes:
70 Bugs closed,
Added locale tab to options dialog so that locale can be overridden,
Cleanups and additions to GRASS tools,
Python Plugin Installer for installing plugins from the PyQGIS repository,
Documentation updates,
Improvements for building under MSVC." I copied some of the previous stories on QGIS below.
Industry: FDO, GDAL and GRASS Graduate OSGeo Incubation
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The OSGeo announced the graduation of Autodesk's FDO, GDAL and GRASS GIS from their incubation process. From the announcement: "Graduating incubation includes requirements for open community operation, a responsible project governance model, code provenance and license verification and general good project operation. Graduating incubation is the OSGeo seal of approval for a project and gives potential users of the project added confidence in the viability and safety of the project." Related stories included below.
JGrass in Leap Year PreAlpha
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moovida writes "Since many asked for it, the JGrass team finally releases
a prealpha JGrass package. This is the first touchable result of a long
time of heavy development to migrate the old JGrass functionalities
into the new udig framework. Also the new website and trackers, based on the
Savane engine, are on their first run at the Free
Software Center. If this release has been possible, then only
throught the great uDig
community that accepted us and gave us every needed help. Hat off to
Refractions and its developers. Welcome to the new JGrass prealpha, the leap year edition!!" JGrass is "[...] a free, multi platform, open source GIS based on the famous GIS Grass [...]"
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GRASS GIS 6.3.0 Released and Includes Microsoft Windows Support
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