wiki:Grass7/NewFeatures

Version 2 (modified by neteler, 14 years ago) ( diff )

Changelog reviewed and some relevant items added here

List of new features in GRASS 7

Table of Contents

  1. Graphical User Interface
  2. Display modules
  3. General modules
  4. Image processing
  5. Raster modules
  6. Vector modules
  7. Libccmath
  8. Libdbmi
  9. Libgis
  10. Libgmath
  11. Libraster
  12. Libvector
  13. Documentation
  14. API
  15. Portability
  16. Removed modules

Graphical User Interface

  • wxGUI improved (see ​here)
    • Advanced GRASS command console
    • ...
  • wxWidgets version of ximgview

Display modules

  • old display architecture removed including related modules
  • new display architecture based on CAIRO and wxPython
  • ximgview: new

General modules

  • g.cairocomp: new
  • g.ppmtopng: new

Image processing

  • i.albedo: new
  • i.biomass: new
  • i.eb.eta: new
  • i.eb.evapfr: new
  • i.eb.h_SEBAL01: new
  • i.eb.soilheatflux: new
  • i.emissivity: new
  • i.evapo.time_integration: new
  • i.latlong: new
  • i.modis.qc: new
  • i.sunhours: new
  • i.vi: new

Raster modules

  • r.colors.out: new
  • r.external.out: new
  • r.cost faster by orders of magnitude (10x - 100x)
  • r.walk faster by orders of magnitude (10x - 1000x)
  • r.mapcalc: use pthreads for parsing
  • r.solute.transport: new
  • r.statistics2: new
  • r.statistics3: new
  • r.uslek: new
  • r.usler: new
  • r.watershed improved from G6.3 to G6.4 to G6.5 to G7: faster, less memory, floating point DEM support, MFD, clean stream extraction from MFD, segmented mode in G7 faster than in G6 by orders of magnitude (segmented mode in G7 only a bit slower than all-in-ram mode of G6.4)
  • r.gwflow/r3.gwflow: Groundwater flow module update
  • Large File Support (LFS) globally enabled

Vector modules

  • v.krige: new
  • v.in.ogr faster for polygon-import, cleaner output
  • Large File Support (LFS) globally enabled

Libccmath

  • new library for numerical functions

Libdbmi

  • Added support for OFTDate, OFTTime, OFTDateTime

Libgis

  • WPS support implemented in parser
  • Libraster separated out into own library
  • Store metadata in $HOME/.grass7 directory

Libgmath

  • gmath solver updated to use ATLAS blas level 1 algorithms.

Libraster

  • Libraster separated out from libgis, refactored

Libvector

  • Large File Support (LFS) added
  • new spatial index, and spatial index kept in file: faster queries (>10x for large vectors), less memory for opening an existing vector
  • cleaning functions 'break polygons' and 'snap lines' faster, less memory
  • Simple Features API/OGR read/write support (ongoing)

Documentation

  • Use Python to generate HTML docs

API

Portability

  • All shell scripts have been rewritten in Python
  • MS-Windows portability improved, new spawn functions (backported to 6.5 and 6.4)
  • MacOSX portability improved

Removed modules

  • d.ask, d.colors, d.extend, d.extract, d.frame, d.mapgraph, d.measure, d.menu, d.mon, d.save, d.what.rast, d.what.vect, d.zoom (old display architecture decommissioned)
  • g.ask, g.setproj
  • i.class, i.ortho.photo, i.points, i.vpoints (need to be ported; old display architecture decommissioned)
  • raster:
    • r.average, r.bilinear, r.median (merged into ...)
    • r.digit (need to be ported; old display architecture decommissioned)
    • r.le.patch, r.le.pixel, r.le.setup, r.le.trace: replaced by r.li.*
    • r.sim.sediment, r.sim.water (need to be ported)
    • r.sum (?)
    • r.terraflow.short (FP version is sufficient)
  • v.digit (new wxPython digitizer)

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