Changes between Version 29 and Version 30 of Release/7.0.0-News

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Feb 21, 2015, 12:34:15 PM (9 years ago)

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neteler

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Release/7.0.0-News

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 === What's new in a nutshell ===
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+[[Image(wiki:Grass7/NewFeatures:grass700RC2_startup.png, align=right, 300px)]]
 
 After many years of development the new stable major release GRASS GIS 7.0.0 is available. The graphical user interface based on wxPython (introduced in GRASS GIS 6.4) has been enriched with many '''[wiki:Grass7/NewFeatures new features]''' in order to make complex GIS operations available as simple as possible. The old !Tcl/Tk based GUI has been dropped. The developers have added important new functionality to the core system, among that the [http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/manuals/libpython/pygrass_index.html new Python interface to the C library]. This new API permits users to create new GRASS GIS-Python modules in a simple way while yet obtaining powerful and fast modules. Furthermore, the vector library was significantly improved to make it faster and more efficient, along with support of [http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Massive_data_analysis huge files]. This requires an [http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Convert_all_GRASS_6_vector_maps_to_GRASS_7 easy to manage topology format update] including a new spatial index. A lot of effort has been invested to standardize parameter and flag names. Finally, there are a series of new modules to analyse raster and vector data; some of the already existing modules were improved and made faster (some even 1000 x faster). For details see below.
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 Between the '''versions [wiki:Release/6.4.0-News 6.4.0] and 7.0.0 more than ''10,500'' updates''' have been applied. See also the [https://www.openhub.net/p/grass_gis Open Hub] code analysis.
 
-[[Image(wiki:Grass7/NewFeatures:grass700RC2_startup.png, align=right, 300px)]]
+[[Image(wiki:Grass7/NewFeatures:wxGUI_vnet.jpg, align=right, 200px)]]
 
 ==== New modules ====
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 ''Summary: The existing graphical user interface has been improved and extended with new functionality not easily found in other GIS:''
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+[[Image(wiki:Grass7/NewFeatures:wxGUI_iscatt.jpg, align=right, 200px)]]
 
  * G7:g.gui.animation: new - Animating of raster and vector time series 
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 ''Summary: The topology engine has been improved in speed and precision. LAS LiDAR point clouds support added, new PostGIS 2 interface, various vector networking improvements, notable speed improvements for vector import, generalization, kernel density calculation, intersection, vector grid and hexagon calculation, automated line vertex densification in reprojection for error minimization, optionally constraining of random points to selected polygons, vector area skeletonizer added and much more.''
 
+[[Image(wiki:Grass7/NewFeatures:v_hull_3d.png, align=right, 200px)]]
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  * Large File Support (LFS) globally enabled
  * G7:v.colors.out: new - Exports the color table associated with a vector map. 
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 ''A [http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/manuals/temporalintro.html new temporal GRASS GIS 7 framework] has been developed to manage, process and analyse (big) spatio-temporal environmental data. It supports querying, map calculation, aggregation, statistics and gap filling for raster, vector and raster3D data. A temporal topology builder is available to build spatio-temporal topology connections between map objects for 1D, 3D and 4D extents.''
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+[[Image(wiki:Grass7/NewFeatures:temporal_timeline_2D.jpg, align=right, 200px)]]
 
  * G7:t.create: new - Creates a space time dataset. 
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 ===== Bash and Python Scripts =====
 
+[[Image(wiki:Grass7/NewFeatures:wxGUI_gmodeler.png, align=right, 200px)]]
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 All Bash scripts known from GRASS GIS 6 have been converted to Python for portability and speed reasons. Users may obviously continue to run their shell scripts as before. Furthermore a completely [http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/manuals/libpython/pygrass_index.html new Python interface] has been developed.
 
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 ==== Portability changes ====
 
-(MS-Windows)
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- * 64bit compliant
- * default prompt changed to cmd.exe
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-(Mac OSX)
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- * stability fixes
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-(IBM/AIX)
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- * portability fixes
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-(SUN/Solaris)
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- * portability fixes
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-(FreeBDS/netBSD)
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- * portability fixes
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-(Hurd)
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- * portability fixes
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-(All)
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+ * MS-Windows: 64bit compliant; default prompt changed to cmd.exe
+ * Mac OSX, IBM/AIX, SUN/Solaris, FreeBSD, netBSD, Hurd: stability fixes
  * Python 3 compatibility fixes 
  * wxPython 3 compatibility fixes
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 ==== Message translation updates ====
 
- * Many languages updated with many new translations ([http://grass.osgeo.org/devel/i18n.php#statistics see stats])
+ * Many languages updated with many new translations ([http://grass.osgeo.org/development/translations/#statistics see stats])
 
 === GRASS GIS 7 Addons ===