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| 17 | <BR>
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| 18 | <BR>
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| 19 |
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| 20 | <b>The GRASS Development Team announces</b>
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| 22 | <h2>GRASS GIS 6.3.0 released 23 April 2008</h2>
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| 23 | </center>
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| 24 | <BR>
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| 25 |
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| 26 | We are happy to announce the latest release of
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| 27 | <a href="http://grass.osgeo.org">GRASS GIS</a>, the first major release
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| 28 | with new features since GRASS 6.2 first arrived in October 2006.
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| 29 |
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| 30 | <P>
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| 31 | Officially this is a "technology preview" release, the first beta on the
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| 32 | path to GRASS 6.4-stable, and it also marks the start of work on GRASS 7.
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| 33 | As such GRASS 6.3.0 is not intended to be a stable release with ongoing
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| 34 | support, but after five months of quality-assurance review we are very
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| 35 | pleased with the results. Users can be confident to use this version for
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| 36 | their day to day work, indeed due to the open development model many
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| 37 | already do.
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| 38 |
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| 39 | <P>
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| 40 | Besides the hundreds of new module features, supported data formats, and
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| 41 | language translations, GRASS 6.3 brings a number of exciting enhancements
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| 42 | to the GIS. A prototype of the new wxPython user interface is debuted, and
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| 43 | for the first time since its inception with a port from the VAX 11/780 in
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| 44 | 1983, GRASS will run on a non-UNIX based platform: MS-Windows. This is
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| 45 | currently still in an experimental state and we hope that widespread
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| 46 | testing of 6.3.0 will mean the 6.4 release of WinGRASS will be fully
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| 47 | functional and robust. Existing UNIX and Mac users will be happy to
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| 48 | know that these new features do not disrupt the base GIS which remains
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| 49 | as solid as ever and fully backwards compatible with earlier GRASS 6.0
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| 50 | and GRASS 6.2 releases.
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| 51 |
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| 52 | <P>
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| 53 | Several infrastructure changes accompany this release with the project
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| 54 | becoming a founding member of the <a href="http://www.osgeo.org/">Open
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| 55 | Source Geospatial Foundation</a> (OSGeo).
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| 56 | This includes a new home for the <a href="http://grass.osgeo.org">website</a>,
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| 57 | the <a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Main_Page">Wiki help system</a>,
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| 58 | <a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/trunk">source code repository</a>,
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| 59 | community <a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass-addons">add-on
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| 60 | module repository</a>,
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| 61 | integrated <a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/report">bug tracking system</a>,
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| 62 | and formal membership for the project in a non-profit legal entity. We hope
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| 63 | that these changes will guarantee that the GRASS community will be well
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| 64 | supported and vibrant well into the future.
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| 65 |
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| 66 | <p>
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| 67 | The <i>Geographic Resources Analysis Support System</i>, commonly referred to
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| 68 | as GRASS, is a Geographic Information System (GIS) providing powerful raster,
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| 69 | vector, and geospatial processing engines in a single integrated software
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| 70 | suite. GRASS includes tools for spatial modeling, visualization of raster and
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| 71 | vector data, management and analysis of geospatial data, and the processing of
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| 72 | satellite and aerial imagery. It also provides the capability to produce
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| 73 | sophisticated presentation graphics and hardcopy maps.
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| 74 |
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| 75 | <P>
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| 76 | GRASS is currently used around the world in academic and commercial settings
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| 77 | as well as by many governmental agencies and environmental consulting companies.
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| 78 | It runs on a variety of popular hardware platforms and is Free open-source
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| 79 | software released under the terms of the
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| 80 | <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU General Public License</a>.
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| 81 |
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| 82 |
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| 83 |
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| 84 | <h3>Screenshots</h3>
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| 85 |
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| 86 | <ul>
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| 87 | <li><a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/screenshots/index.php">Screenshots</a>
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| 88 | of GRASS 6.3 in action
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| 89 | </ul>
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| 90 |
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| 91 | <h3>Platforms supported by GRASS</h3>
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| 92 |
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| 93 | <p>GNU/Linux, Mac OS X/Darwin, Microsoft Windows (native using MinGW or with
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| 94 | full UNIX support via Cygwin), Sun Solaris (SPARC/Intel), Silicon Graphics
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| 95 | Irix, HP-UX, DEC-Alpha, AIX, BSD, iPAQ/Linux and other UNIX compliant platforms.
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| 96 | GRASS runs on both 32 and 64 bit systems with large files (>2GB) supported by
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| 97 | many key modules.
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| 98 |
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| 99 |
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| 100 | <h3>Software download/CDROM</h3>
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| 101 |
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| 102 | <ul>
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| 103 | <li><a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/download/index.php#g63x">http://grass.osgeo.org</a></li>
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| 104 | <li><a href="http://grass.ibiblio.org/download/index.php#g63x">http://grass.ibiblio.org</a></li>
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| 105 | <li>numerous <a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/mirrors.php">mirror sites</a></li>
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| 106 | <li><a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/download/cdrom.php">GRASS on CDROM/DVD</a></li>
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| 107 | </ul>
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| 108 |
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| 109 | <p>
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| 110 | The new source code is available now and binary packages for major operating
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| 111 | systems will be published shortly.</p>
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| 112 |
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| 113 | <p>
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| 114 | For details on GRASS software capabilities please refer to:
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| 115 | <a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/intro/general.php">http://grass.osgeo.org/intro/general.php</a>,
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| 116 | the previous announcements of
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| 117 | <a href="announce_grass620.html">GRASS 6.2.0</a>,
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| 118 | <a href="announce_grass621.html">GRASS 6.2.1</a>,
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| 119 | <a href="announce_grass622.html">GRASS 6.2.2</a>, and
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| 120 | <a href="announce_grass623.html">GRASS 6.2.3</a>,
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| 121 | and the <a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Main_Page">Wiki
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| 122 | collaborative help system</a>.
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| 123 |
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| 124 |
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| 125 | <h3>What's new in GRASS 6.3.0</h3>
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| 126 | (selected improvements from the more than 3400 minor and important fixes)
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| 127 | <!-- 3483 CVS changes since 6.2.2: `grep -c '^2' ChangeLog_6.2.2-6.2.3` -14 VERSION admin = 3469 -->
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| 128 |
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| 129 | <!--
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| 130 | This list should cover new things not backported since 6.2 was branched from HEAD:
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| 131 | 2006-08-11 12:52 markus * include/VERSION: Switched development to 6.3.cvs
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| 132 | -->
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| 133 |
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| 134 | <ul>
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| 135 | <li>Source code quality/libraries:
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| 136 | <ul>
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| 137 | <li> Many fixes for native MS-Windows support (MinGW based)
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| 138 | <li> <a href="http://download.osgeo.org/grass/grass6_progman/">Programmer's Manual</a>:
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| 139 | continued Doxygen integration and automated generation into PDF and HTML
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| 140 | formats. Publicly available for download and perusal.
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| 141 | <li> Improved policies for code submission specified in the
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| 142 | SUBMITTING files for documentation, Python, Tcl/Tk, and shell scripts
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| 143 | <li> GRASS-SWIG prototype interface improved (library bindings for Perl and Python)
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| 144 | <li> All modules: <tt>--quiet</tt> and <tt>--verbose</tt> message modes
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| 145 | <li> All modules: <tt>--script</tt> flag generates boilerplate for shell scripts
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| 146 | with parser and GUI support
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| 147 | <li> Batch mode for launching GRASS for non-interactive processing tasks
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| 148 | <li> DBMI: SQL parser extended (support for DROP COLUMN, ASC/DESC keyword
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| 149 | in ORDER BY clause, etc.)
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| 150 | <li> Partial differential equations library with OpenMP support (gpdelib)
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| 151 | <li> Moved aggregate functions into separate statistics library
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| 152 | <li> Display driver: add R_bitmap() and supporting infrastructure
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| 153 | <li> Major clean-up to the display architecture (libraries and drivers):
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| 154 | the drivers no longer maintain a palette; all colours are specified
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| 155 | directly as R/G/B values
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| 156 | <li> Segmentation library polished
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| 157 | <li> Cdhc library for testing normality & exponentiality polished
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| 158 | <li> "Default" datum transformation parameters are now first in the list
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| 159 | instead of last
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| 160 | <li> Create new locations using EPSG codes with g.proj
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| 161 | <li> Message translation (i18N): translations continued, new languages
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| 162 | including Vietnamese and Arabic
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| 163 | <li> Documentation/man pages: various fixes and improvements (more examples
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| 164 | added, including graphics, improved style, new introductory pages)
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| 165 | <li> Documentation: various terminology issues fixed and terms unified
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| 166 | <li> Symbols: New icons, support for symbol rotation
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| 167 |
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| 168 |
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| 169 | </ul>
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| 170 |
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| 171 | <li> Graphical User Interface (GUI):
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| 172 | <ul>
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| 173 |
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| 174 | <li><b>g.gui</b>: New frontend command to launch GUI sessions
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| 175 |
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| 176 | <li> <b>gis.m Tcl/Tk GUI</b>:
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| 177 | <ul>
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| 178 | <li> GIS manager extended with mouse placement of text and scale bars
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| 179 | and menu updates
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| 180 | <li> Updated Tcl/Tk profile and georectification GUI tools
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| 181 | <li> New interactive command console with output window
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| 182 | <li> New interfaces for interactive raster reclassification, raster
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| 183 | recoding, custom raster color rules, and vector reclassification
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| 184 | <li> New animation tool to display raster map series as an animation
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| 185 | </ul>
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| 186 |
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| 187 | <li> <b>wxPython GUI</b>:
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| 188 | <ul>
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| 189 | <li> Complete <a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/WxPython-based_GUI_for_GRASS">GUI
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| 190 | rewrite in Python/wxWidgets</a>
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| 191 | </ul>
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| 192 |
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| 193 | <li> Improved startup screen and interface, including searchable EPSG
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| 194 | codes list and better custom datum support
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| 195 | <li> <b>NVIZ</b>: Major revamp of interface; output directly to MPEG or
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| 196 | other FFmpeg supported formats
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| 197 | <li> <b>QGIS integration</b>: GRASS toolbox extended, available from
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| 198 | <a href="http://www.qgis.org">Quantum GIS</a>
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| 199 | </ul>
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| 200 |
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| 201 | <li> Drivers:
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| 202 | <ul>
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| 203 | <li> <b>DBF driver</b>: extended column type support
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| 204 | <li> <b>HTMLMAP display driver</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 205 | Prepares clickable HTML image map templates (port from GRASS 5)
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| 206 | <li> <b>PostScript display driver</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 207 | Renders display directly into a PostScript or Encapsulated PostScript file
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| 208 | <li> <b>Cairo display driver</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 209 | Renders display directly into a number of image formats using the Cairo
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| 210 | rendering engine
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| 211 | </ul>
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| 212 |
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| 213 | <li> New and major updates for modules and scripts since GRASS 6.2.3:
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| 214 | <ul>
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| 215 | <li> <b>db.dropcol</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 216 | Drops a column from selected attribute table
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| 217 | <li> <b>db.droptable</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 218 | Drops an attribute table
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| 219 | <li> <b>db.in.ogr</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 220 | Imports attribute tables in various formats
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| 221 | <li> <b>db.login</b>:
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| 222 | Support for interactive password entry (invisible passwords)
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| 223 | <li> <b>db.out.ogr</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 224 | Exports attribute tables into various formats
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| 225 | <li> <b>d.barscale</b>: North arrow for lat/lon locations
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| 226 | <li> <b>d.out.file</b>: Expanded to use the Cairo and PostScript display
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| 227 | drivers to allow export to ps, eps, svg, and pdf formats
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| 228 | <li> <b>d.path</b>: Support for use from GUI and non-interactive mode
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| 229 | <li> <b>d.rast.edit</b>: Rewritten in Tcl/Tk
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| 230 | <li> <b>d.shadedmap</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 231 | Drapes a semi-transparent raster over a shaded relief map
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| 232 | <li> <b>d.text</b>, <b>d.font</b>: Updated to accept TrueType fonts and
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| 233 | maintain a database of system fonts
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| 234 | <li> <b>g.dirseps</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 235 | Internal utility for converting directory characters (MS-Windows)
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| 236 | <li> <b>g.findetc</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 237 | Internal utility for locating support files
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| 238 | <li> <b>g.gui</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 239 | Launches a GRASS graphical user interface (GUI) session
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| 240 | <li> <b>g.message</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 241 | Internal utility for printing quiet and verbose messages in scripts
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| 242 | <li> <b>g.mkfontcap</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 243 | Internal utility for generating a list of available system fonts
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| 244 | <li> <b>g.mremove</b>: Support for use from GUI
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| 245 | <li> <b>i.atcorr</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 246 | Performs atmospheric correction using the 6S algorithm
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| 247 | <li> <b>i.landsat.rgb</b>: Vast speed improvement
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| 248 | <li> <b>ps.map</b>: Various improvements including new map border control,
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| 249 | rotated and scaled symbols, and allowing geogrid from lat/lon locations
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| 250 | <li> <b>r3.gwflow</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 251 | Models transient, confined groundwater flow in three dimensions
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| 252 | <li> <b>r3.stats</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 253 | Generates volume statistics for raster3d maps
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| 254 | <li> <b>r3.univar</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 255 | Calculates univariate statistics from the cells of a 3D raster map
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| 256 | <li> <b><strike>r.bilinear</strike></b>:
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| 257 | This module has been replaced by 'r.resamp.interp'
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| 258 | <li> <b>r.category</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 259 | Manages raster map category values and labels (replaces r.cats)
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| 260 | <li> <b>r.colors</b>: Support for equalized histogram, reversed,
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| 261 | logarithmically scaled, rules-from-file, and more
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| 262 | <li> <b>r.gwflow</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 263 | Models transient, confined groundwater flow in two dimensions
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| 264 | <li> <b>r.in.wms</b>:
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| 265 | Various fixes and more robust when dealing with flaky WMS servers
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| 266 | <li> <b>r.in.xyz</b>: Support for extended statistics
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| 267 | <li> <b>r.le suite</b>: Various fixes and modernization
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| 268 | <li> <b>r.li suite</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 269 | Advanced toolset for multiscale analysis of landscape structure.
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| 270 | <BR>Including single and multi-processor enabled modules:
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| 271 | r.li.cwed, r.li.dominance, r.li.edgedensity, r.li.mpa, r.li.mps, r.li.padcv,
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| 272 | r.li.padrange, r.li.padsd, r.li.patchdensity, r.li.patchnum, r.li.richness,
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| 273 | r.li.setup, r.li.shannon, r.li.shape, and r.li.simpson
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| 274 | <li> <b>r.mfilter.fp</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 275 | Raster map custom matrix filter (floating point version)
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| 276 | <li> <b>r.out.gdal</b>: New C implementation replaces shell script version,
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| 277 | <i>region sensitive</i> with color export ability
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| 278 | <li> <b>r.out.xyz</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 279 | Exports a raster map to a text file as x,y,z values based on cell centers
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| 280 | <li> <b>r.profile</b>: Report data outside the current region as invalid
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| 281 | <li> <b>r.proj</b>: Replaced with an improved version
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| 282 | <li> <b>r.resamp.interp</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 283 | Resamples raster map layers to a finer grid using interpolation
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| 284 | <li> <b>r.resamp.stats</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 285 | Resamples raster map layers to a coarser grid using aggregation
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| 286 | <li> <b>r.support</b>: Enhanced control of meta-data
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| 287 | <li> <b>r.support.stats</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 288 | Support module which updates raster map statistics
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| 289 | <li> <b>r.univar</b>: Support for extended statistics
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| 290 | <li> <b>r.watershed</b>: Vast speed improvement
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| 291 | <li> <b>r.what.color</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 292 | Queries colors for a raster map layer
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| 293 | <li> <b>v.db.dropcol</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 294 | Drops a column from the attribute table connected to a given vector map
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| 295 | <li> <b>v.db.join</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 296 | Allows to join a table to a vector map table
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| 297 | <li> <b>v.db.renamecol</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 298 | Renames a column in the attribute table connected to a given vector map
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| 299 | <li> <b>v.db.univar</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 300 | Calculates univariate statistics on selected table column for a vector map
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| 301 | <li> <b>v.digit</b> (Tcl/Tk): Rewritten for use without X11
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| 302 | <li> <b>v.digit</b> (wxPython): <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 303 | All new vector map digitizer rewritten in wxPython
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| 304 | <li> <b>v.edit</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 305 | Edits a vector map, allows adding, deleting and modifying selected
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| 306 | vector features
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| 307 | <li> <b>v.generalize</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 308 | Generalization of vector features using a number of smoothing techniques
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| 309 | <li> <b>v.in.db</b>: More efficient implementation of the where= option
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| 310 | <li> <b>v.in.wfs</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 311 | Import GetFeatures from WFS format
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| 312 | <li> <b>v.net.visibility</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 313 | Visibility graph construction
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| 314 | <li> <b>v.out.svg</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 315 | Exports a vector map to SVG format
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| 316 | <li> <b>v.proj</b>: Better handling of z coordinates in 3-D vectors
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| 317 | <li> <b>v.support</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 318 | Updates vector map metadata
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| 319 | <li> <b>v.surf.idw</b> and <b>v.surf.rst</b>: Work with massive datasets
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| 320 | imported without topology (e.g. LIDAR)
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| 321 | </ul>
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| 322 | </ul>
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| 323 |
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| 324 | <P>
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| 325 | For a comprehensive list of changes see the
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| 326 | <a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/grass63/source/ChangeLog_6.3.0.gz">6.3 ChangeLog</a> file.</p>
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| 327 | <P>
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| 328 | For a complete list of commands available in GRASS 6.3.0 see the
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| 329 | <a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/grass63/manuals/html63_user/index.html">online manuals</a>
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| 330 | and the
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| 331 | <a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/gdp/grassmanuals/grass63_module_list.pdf">GRASS 6 module list</a>.
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| 332 | </p>
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| 333 |
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| 334 | <p><BR><i>We are always looking for testers, code developers, and technical
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| 335 | writers to <a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/devel/index.php">help us</a> maintain and accelerate
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| 336 | the development cycle.</i>
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| 337 |
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| 338 | The GRASS GIS project is developed under the terms of the
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| 339 | <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU General Public License</a>
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| 340 | (the GPL) <a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/devel/index.php">in the open</a> by
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| 341 | <a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/community/index.php">volunteers</a> the
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| 342 | <a href="http://mapserver.gdf-hannover.de/grassusers/map.phtml">world over</a>.
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| 343 |
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| 344 | GRASS differs from many other GIS software packages used in the professional
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| 345 | world in that it is developed and distributed by users for users, mostly on a
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| 346 | volunteer basis, in the open, and is given away for free.
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| 347 |
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| 348 | Emphasis is placed on interoperability and unlimited access to data as well as
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| 349 | on software flexibility and evolution rate.
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| 350 | </p>
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| 351 |
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| 352 | <p>
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| 353 | Release history:
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| 354 | <ul>
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| 355 | <li> <a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/6.3.0RC1-News">GRASS GIS 6.3.0RC1</a> released 24 Oct 2007
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| 356 | <li> <a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/6.3.0RC2-News">GRASS GIS 6.3.0RC2</a> released 20 Nov 2007
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| 357 | <li> <a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/6.3.0RC3-News">GRASS GIS 6.3.0RC3</a> released 30 Nov 2007
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| 358 | <li> <a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/6.3.0RC4-News">GRASS GIS 6.3.0RC4</a> released 9 Jan 2008
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| 359 | <li> <a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/6.3.0RC5-News">GRASS GIS 6.3.0RC5</a> released 19 Feb 2008
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| 360 | <li> <a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/6.3.0RC6-News">GRASS GIS 6.3.0RC6</a> released 21 Mar 2008
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| 361 | <li> GRASS GIS 6.3.0 released 19 Apr 2008 (redrawn due to quality issues)
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| 362 | <li> GRASS GIS 6.3.0.1 released 23 Apr 2008
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| 363 | </ul>
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| 364 |
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| 365 | <hr>
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| 366 | <a href="abstract_grass630.txt">Short version</a> |
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| 367 | <a href="abstract_grass630_CZ.txt">Short version (CZ)</a> |
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| 368 | <a href="abstract_grass630_PL.txt">Short version (PL)</a>
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| 369 | <!-- |
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| 370 | <a href="abstract_grass630_DE.txt">Short version (DE: Kurzfassung)</a> |
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| 371 | <a href="riassunto_grass630.txt">Short version (IT: riassunto)</a>
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| 372 | -->
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| 373 |
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| 374 | <hr>
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| 375 | <address>
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| 376 | <a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/community/team.php">GRASS Development Team</a><br>
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| 377 | Date: 23 April 2008 (last changed: $Date: 2008-10-16 14:54:37 +0000 (Thu, 16 Oct 2008) $)
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| 378 | </address>
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| 379 | </body>
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| 380 | </html>
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