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| 21 |
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| 22 | <b>The GRASS Development Team announces</b>
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| 24 | <h2>GRASS GIS 6.4.0 released 3 September 2010</h2>
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| 26 | <br>
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| 27 | <table width="80%" align="center" bgcolor="#efefef" cellpadding="40"><tr><td>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | We are pleased to announce the release of
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| 30 | <a href="http://grass.osgeo.org">GRASS GIS 6.4.0</a>, the first in the
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| 31 | new line of 6.4 stable releases. As a stable release 6.4 will enjoy
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| 32 | long-term support. The next release (6.4.1) will introduce a few new
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| 33 | features which are still undergoing final testing, but after that all
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| 34 | further 6.4 releases will be bugfix-only. Due to our highly conservative
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| 35 | stabilization policy this is the first official version of GRASS to
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| 36 | introduce new features since October 2006 and supersedes the previous
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| 37 | stable line of GRASS 6.2. As such the floodgates are open and there are
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| 38 | many new features to explore and many new structural improvements to be
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| 39 | found in the software.
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| 40 |
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| 41 | <p>
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| 42 | GRASS 6.4 brings a number of exciting enhancements to the GIS. Our new
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| 43 | <em>wxPython graphical user interface</em> (wxGUI) is debuted, Python
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| 44 | is now a fully supported scripting language, and for the first time
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| 45 | since its inception with a port from the VAX 11/780 in 1983, GRASS
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| 46 | will now run natively on a non-UNIX based platform: MS-Windows!
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| 47 |
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| 48 | In addition to bringing the software to a host of new users, the ability
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| 49 | to run GRASS on any common computer platform furthers our goal of open
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| 50 | access to the software. We hope you will enjoy the ability to use this
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| 51 | program on the systems that are most convenient to you and your work.
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| 52 |
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| 53 | <p>
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| 54 | Due to the freshness of <em>WinGrass</em> there may still be a few rough
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| 55 | edges yet to discover, but after more than a year of dedicated testing
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| 56 | and quality-assurance review we are very pleased with the results.
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| 57 | Users can be confident to use this version for their day to day work,
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| 58 | indeed due to the open development model many already do. Existing UNIX
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| 59 | and Mac users will be happy to know that these new features do not disrupt
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| 60 | the base GIS which remains as solid as ever and fully backwards compatible
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| 61 | with earlier GRASS 6.0 and 6.2 releases. The venerable Tcl/Tk
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| 62 | GUIs are also still available if you prefer to use them.
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| 63 |
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| 64 | <p>
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| 65 | The GRASS software including over 400 built-in analysis modules and 100 community
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| 66 | supplied add-on modules and toolboxes can be downloaded for free from the
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| 67 | main GRASS website at
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| 68 | <a href="http://grass.osgeo.org">http://grass.osgeo.org</a>, or from many
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| 69 | local mirrors worldwide. In addition to the extensive documentation which
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| 70 | comes with the software, our
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| 71 | <a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki">Wiki help system</a>
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| 72 | contains a wealth of user supplied tips and tricks, tutorials, and guides.
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| 73 |
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| 74 | <p>
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| 75 | Since 6.4 entered the testing phase work has begun on GRASS 7 and is
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| 76 | progressing rapidly, including many new wxGUI improvements and tools
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| 77 | which we hope to bring over for the upcoming 6.4.1 release.
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| 78 |
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| 79 |
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| 80 | <h3>About GRASS GIS</h3>
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| 81 |
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| 82 | The <i>Geographic Resources Analysis Support System</i>, commonly referred to
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| 83 | as GRASS, is a Geographic Information System (GIS) providing powerful raster,
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| 84 | vector, and geospatial processing engines in a single integrated software
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| 85 | suite. GRASS includes tools for spatial modeling, visualization of raster and
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| 86 | vector data, management and analysis of geospatial data, and the processing of
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| 87 | satellite and aerial imagery. It also provides the capability to produce
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| 88 | sophisticated presentation graphics and hardcopy maps. GRASS has now been
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| 89 | translated into twenty languages and supports a huge array of data formats.
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| 90 |
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| 91 | <p>
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| 92 | GRASS is a founding member of <a href="http://www.osgeo.org">The Open
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| 93 | Source Geospatial Foundation</a> (OSGeo), a non-profit legal entity which
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| 94 | has enjoyed extraordinary growth. We expect that this formal infrastructure
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| 95 | will guarantee that the GRASS community will be well supported and vibrant
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| 96 | far into the future.
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| 97 |
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| 98 | <p>
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| 99 | GRASS is currently used around the world in academic and commercial settings
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| 100 | as well as by many governmental agencies and environmental consulting companies.
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| 101 | It runs on a variety of popular hardware platforms and is Free open-source
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| 102 | software released under the terms of the
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| 103 | <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html">GNU General Public License</a>.
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| 104 |
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| 105 | <p>
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| 106 | Users are encouraged to study, customize, extend, improve, and (if
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| 107 | necessary) diagnose and repair the inner workings of any part of the program.
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| 108 | We believe that scientific progress depends on the reproducibility of results,
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| 109 | which in turn depends on the unhindered ability of the user to know, evaluate,
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| 110 | double-check, and learn from all algorithms and methodologies used in the process
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| 111 | of their work.
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| 112 |
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| 113 |
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| 114 | <h3>Screenshots</h3>
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| 115 |
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| 116 | <ul>
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| 117 | <li><a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/screenshots/index.php">Screenshots</a>
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| 118 | of GRASS in action
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| 119 | </ul>
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| 120 |
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| 121 | <h3>Platforms supported by GRASS</h3>
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| 122 |
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| 123 | <p>GNU/Linux, Mac OS X/Darwin, Microsoft Windows (native using MinGW or with
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| 124 | full UNIX support via Cygwin), Sun Solaris (SPARC/Intel), Silicon Graphics
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| 125 | Irix, HP-UX, DEC-Alpha, AIX, the BSD family, iPAQ/Linux and other UNIX
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| 126 | compliant platforms. GRASS runs on both 32 and 64 bit systems with large
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| 127 | data file (>2GB) support for most key modules.
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| 128 |
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| 129 |
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| 130 | <h3>Software download/CDROM</h3>
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| 131 |
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| 132 | <ul>
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| 133 | <li><a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/download/index.php">http://grass.osgeo.org</a></li>
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| 134 | <li><a href="http://grass.ibiblio.org/download/index.php">http://grass.ibiblio.org</a></li>
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| 135 | <li>numerous <a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/mirrors.php">mirror sites</a></li>
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| 136 | <li><a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/download/cdrom.php">GRASS on CDROM/DVD</a></li>
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| 137 | </ul>
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| 138 |
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| 139 | <p>
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| 140 | The new source code is available now and binary packages for major operating
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| 141 | systems will be published shortly.</p>
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| 142 |
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| 143 | <p>
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| 144 | For details on GRASS software capabilities please refer to:
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| 145 | <a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/intro/general.php">http://grass.osgeo.org/intro/general.php</a>,
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| 146 | and the <a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki">Wiki
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| 147 | collaborative help system</a>.
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| 148 |
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| 149 |
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| 150 | <h3>What's new in GRASS 6.4.0</h3>
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| 151 | (selected improvements from the over 9,000 updates to the source code)
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| 152 | <!-- 9051+ SVN changes since 6.3 branching: `grep -c '^2' ChangeLog_6.4`
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| 153 |
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| 154 | This list should cover new things not backported since 6.2 was branched from HEAD:
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| 155 | r20702 2006-08-11 12:52 markus * include/VERSION: Switched development to 6.3.cvs
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| 156 | -->
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| 157 |
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| 158 | <ul>
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| 159 | <li>Source code quality/libraries:
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| 160 | <ul>
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| 161 | <li> Many internal adjustments needed for native MS-Windows support,
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| 162 | for example safely handling spaces in file names.
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| 163 | <li> <a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/programming6/">Programmer's Manual</a>:
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| 164 | continued Doxygen integration and automated generation into PDF and HTML
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| 165 | formats. Publicly available for download and perusal.
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| 166 | <li> Improved policies for code submission specified in the
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| 167 | SUBMITTING files for documentation, Python, Tcl/Tk, and shell scripts
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| 168 | <li> New Python scripting language library containing many helper functions
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| 169 | <li> All modules: <tt>--quiet</tt> and <tt>--verbose</tt> message modes
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| 170 | <li> All modules: <tt>--script</tt> flag generates boilerplate for shell scripts
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| 171 | with parser and GUI support
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| 172 | <li> Batch mode for launching GRASS for non-interactive processing tasks
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| 173 | <li> DBMI: SQL parser extended (support for DROP COLUMN, ASC/DESC keyword
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| 174 | in ORDER BY clause, etc.)
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| 175 | <!-- TODO: say what for useful: -->
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| 176 | <li> Partial differential equations library with OpenMP multi-processor support
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| 177 | <li> Major clean-up of the display architecture (libraries and drivers):
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| 178 | the drivers no longer maintain a palette; all colors are now specified
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| 179 | directly as R/G/B values
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| 180 | <li> The "default" datum transformation parameters are now first in the list
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| 181 | instead of last
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| 182 | <li> Ability to create new locations using EPSG codes with the <em>g.proj</em> module
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| 183 | <li> Message translation (i18N): many new translated messages, new languages
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| 184 | including Vietnamese and Arabic
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| 185 | <li> Documentation/man pages: various fixes and improvements (more examples
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| 186 | added, including graphics, improved style, new introductory pages)
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| 187 | <li> Documentation: various terminology issues fixed and terms unified
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| 188 | <li> Symbols: A number of new icons, support for symbol rotation
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| 189 | </ul>
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| 190 |
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| 191 |
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| 192 | <li> Graphical User Interface (GUI):
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| 193 | <ul>
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| 194 |
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| 195 | <li><b>g.gui</b>: New frontend command to launch GUI sessions
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| 196 |
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| 197 | <li> <b>wxPython GUI</b>:
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| 198 | <ul>
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| 199 | <li> Complete <a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/WxGUI">GUI
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| 200 | rewrite in Python/wxWidgets</a>
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| 201 | </ul>
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| 202 |
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| 203 | <li> <b>gis.m Tcl/Tk GUI</b>:
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| 204 | <ul>
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| 205 | <li> GIS manager extended with mouse placement of text and scale bars
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| 206 | and menu updates
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| 207 | <li> Updated Tcl/Tk profile and georectification GUI tools
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| 208 | <li> New interactive command console with output window
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| 209 | <li> New interfaces for interactive raster reclassification, raster
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| 210 | recoding, custom raster color rules, and vector reclassification
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| 211 | <li> New animation tool to display raster map series as an animation
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| 212 | </ul>
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| 213 |
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| 214 | <li> Improved startup screen and interface, including searchable EPSG
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| 215 | codes list and better custom datum support
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| 216 | <li> <b>NVIZ</b>: Major revamp of interface; output directly to MPEG or
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| 217 | other FFmpeg supported formats
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| 218 | <li> <b>QGIS integration</b>: GRASS toolbox extended, available from
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| 219 | <a href="http://www.qgis.org">Quantum GIS</a>
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| 220 | </ul>
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| 221 |
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| 222 | <li> Drivers:
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| 223 | <ul>
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| 224 | <li> <b>DBF driver</b>: extended column type support
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| 225 | <li> <b>HTMLMAP display driver</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 226 | Prepares clickable HTML image map templates (port from GRASS 5)
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| 227 | <li> <b>PostScript display driver</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 228 | Renders display directly into a PostScript or Encapsulated PostScript file
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| 229 | <li> <b>Cairo display driver</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 230 | Renders display directly into a number of image formats using
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| 231 | the <a href="http://www.cairographics.org">Cairo</a> rendering
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| 232 | engine
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| 233 | </ul>
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| 234 |
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| 235 | <li> New and major updates for modules and scripts since GRASS 6.2.3:
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| 236 |
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| 237 | <!-- TODO: check what to keep or make it complete... -->
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| 238 | <ul>
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| 239 | <li> <b>db.dropcol</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 240 | Drops a column from selected attribute table
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| 241 | <li> <b>db.droptable</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 242 | Drops an attribute table
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| 243 | <li> <b>db.in.ogr</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 244 | Imports attribute tables in various formats
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| 245 | <li> <b>db.login</b>:
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| 246 | Support for interactive password entry (invisible passwords)
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| 247 | <li> <b>db.out.ogr</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 248 | Exports attribute tables into various formats
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| 249 | <li> <b>d.barscale</b>: North arrow for lat/lon locations
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| 250 | <li> <b>d.out.file</b>: Expanded to use the Cairo and PostScript display
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| 251 | drivers to allow export to ps, eps, svg, and pdf formats
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| 252 | <li> <b>d.path</b>: Support for use from GUI and non-interactive mode
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| 253 | <li> <b>d.rast.edit</b>: Rewritten in Tcl/Tk
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| 254 | <li> <b>d.shadedmap</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 255 | Drapes a semi-transparent raster over a shaded relief map
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| 256 | <li> <b>d.text</b>, <b>d.font</b>: Updated to accept TrueType fonts and
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| 257 | maintain a database of system fonts
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| 258 | <li> <b>g.dirseps</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 259 | Internal utility for converting directory characters (MS-Windows)
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| 260 | <li> <b>g.extension</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 261 | Utility for downloading and installing Add-on modules
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| 262 | <li> <b>g.findetc</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 263 | Internal utility for locating support files
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| 264 | <li> <b>g.gui</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 265 | Launches a GRASS graphical user interface (GUI) session
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| 266 | <li> <b>g.message</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 267 | Internal utility for printing quiet and verbose messages in scripts
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| 268 | <li> <b>g.mkfontcap</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 269 | Internal utility for generating a list of available system fonts
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| 270 | <li> <b>g.mremove</b>: Support for use from GUI
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| 271 | <li> <b>i.atcorr</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 272 | Performs atmospheric correction using the 6S algorithm
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| 273 | <li> <b>i.landsat.rgb</b>: Vast speed improvement
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| 274 | <li> <b>ps.map</b>: Various improvements including new map border control,
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| 275 | rotated and scaled symbols, and allowing geogrid from lat/lon locations
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| 276 | <li> <b>r3.gwflow</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 277 | Models transient, confined groundwater flow in three dimensions
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| 278 | <li> <b>r3.stats</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 279 | Generates volume statistics for raster3d maps
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| 280 | <li> <b>r3.univar</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 281 | Calculates univariate statistics from the cells of a 3D raster map
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| 282 | <li> <b><strike>r.bilinear</strike></b>:
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| 283 | This module has been replaced by r.resamp.interp
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| 284 | <li> <b>r.category</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 285 | Manages raster map category values and labels (replaces r.cats)
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| 286 | <li> <b>r.colors</b>: Support for equalized histogram, reversed,
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| 287 | logarithmically scaled, rules-from-file, and more
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| 288 | <li> <b>r.gwflow</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 289 | Models transient, confined groundwater flow in two dimensions
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| 290 | <li> <b>r.in.wms</b>:
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| 291 | Various fixes and more robust when dealing with flaky WMS servers
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| 292 | <li> <b>r.in.xyz</b>: Support for extended statistics
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| 293 | <li> <b>r.le suite</b>: Various fixes and modernization
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| 294 | <li> <b>r.li suite</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 295 | Advanced toolset for multiscale analysis of landscape structure.
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| 296 | <br>Including single and multi-processor enabled modules:
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| 297 | r.li.cwed, r.li.dominance, r.li.edgedensity, r.li.mpa, r.li.mps, r.li.padcv,
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| 298 | r.li.padrange, r.li.padsd, r.li.patchdensity, r.li.patchnum, r.li.richness,
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| 299 | r.li.setup, r.li.shannon, r.li.shape, and r.li.simpson
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| 300 | <li> <b>r.mfilter.fp</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 301 | Raster map custom matrix filter (floating point version)
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| 302 | <li> <b>r.out.gdal</b>: New C implementation replaces shell script version,
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| 303 | <i>region sensitive</i> with color export ability
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| 304 | <li> <b>r.out.xyz</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 305 | Exports a raster map to a text file as x,y,z values based on cell centers
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| 306 | <li> <b>r.profile</b>: Report data outside the current region as invalid
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| 307 | <li> <b>r.proj</b>: Replaced with an improved version
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| 308 | <li> <b>r.resamp.interp</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 309 | Resamples raster map layers to a finer grid using interpolation
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| 310 | <li> <b>r.resamp.stats</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 311 | Resamples raster map layers to a coarser grid using aggregation
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| 312 | <li> <b>r.support</b>: Enhanced control of meta-data
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| 313 | <li> <b>r.support.stats</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 314 | Support module which updates raster map statistics
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| 315 | <li> <b>r.univar</b>: Support for extended statistics
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| 316 | <li> <b>r.watershed</b>: Vast speed improvement
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| 317 | <li> <b>r.what.color</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 318 | Queries colors for a raster map layer
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| 319 | <li> <b>v.db.dropcol</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 320 | Drops a column from the attribute table connected to a given vector map
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| 321 | <li> <b>v.db.join</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 322 | Allows to join a table to a vector map table
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| 323 | <li> <b>v.db.renamecol</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 324 | Renames a column in the attribute table connected to a given vector map
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| 325 | <li> <b>v.db.univar</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 326 | Calculates univariate statistics on selected table column for a vector map
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| 327 | <li> <b>v.digit</b> (Tcl/Tk): Rewritten for use without X11
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| 328 | <li> <b>v.digit</b> (wxPython): <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 329 | All new vector map digitizer rewritten in wxPython
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| 330 | <li> <b>v.edit</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 331 | Edits a vector map, allows adding, deleting and modifying selected
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| 332 | vector features
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| 333 | <li> <b>v.generalize</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 334 | Generalization of vector features using a number of smoothing techniques
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| 335 | <li> <b>v.in.db</b>: More efficient implementation of the where= option
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| 336 | <li> <b>v.in.wfs</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 337 | Import GetFeatures from WFS format
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| 338 | <li> <b>v.net.visibility</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 339 | Visibility graph construction
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| 340 | <li> <b>v.out.svg</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 341 | Exports a vector map to SVG format
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| 342 | <li> <b>v.proj</b>: Better handling of z coordinates in 3-D vectors
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| 343 | <li> <b>v.support</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 344 | Updates vector map metadata
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| 345 | <li> <b>v.surf.idw</b>, <b>v.surf.bspline</b>, and <b>v.surf.rst</b>: Work with massive datasets
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| 346 | imported without topology (e.g. LIDAR)
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| 347 | <li> <b>v.to.3d</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
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| 348 | Performs transformation of 2D vector features to 3D
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| 349 | </ul>
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| 350 | </ul>
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| 351 |
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| 352 | <p>
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| 353 | A more detailed description of changes can be found in the previous
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| 354 | announcements of the <a href="announce_grass630.html">GRASS 6.3</a>
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| 355 | development preview release and the
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| 356 | <a href="https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/WikiStart#Releases">GRASS 6.4.0
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| 357 | release candidate</a> series.
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| 358 |
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| 359 | <p>
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| 360 | For a comprehensive list of changes see the
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| 361 | <a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/source/ChangeLog_6.4.0.gz">6.4 ChangeLog</a> file.
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| 362 |
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| 363 | <p>
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| 364 | For a complete list of commands available in GRASS 6.4.0 see the
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| 365 | <a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/html64_user/index.html">online manuals</a>
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| 366 | and the
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| 367 | <a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/gdp/grassmanuals/grass64_module_list.pdf">GRASS 6.4 module list</a>.
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| 368 | </p>
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| 369 |
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| 370 | <p><br><i>We are always looking for testers, code developers, and technical
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| 371 | writers to <a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/devel/index.php">help us</a>
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| 372 | maintain and accelerate the development cycle.</i>
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| 373 |
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| 374 | The GRASS GIS project is developed under the terms of the
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| 375 | <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html">GNU General Public License</a>
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| 376 | (the GPL) <a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/devel/index.php">in the open</a> by
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| 377 | <a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/community/index.php">volunteers</a> the
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| 378 | <a href="http://mapserver.gdf-hannover.de/grassusers/map.phtml">world over</a>.
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| 379 |
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| 380 | GRASS differs from many other GIS software packages used in the professional
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| 381 | world in that it is developed and distributed by users for users, mostly on a
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| 382 | volunteer basis, in the open, and is given away for free.
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| 383 |
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| 384 | Emphasis is placed on interoperability and unlimited access to data as well as
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| 385 | on software flexibility and evolution rate.
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| 386 | </p>
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| 387 |
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| 388 | <p>
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| 389 | Release history:
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| 390 | <ul>
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| 391 | <li> <a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/6.4.0RC1-News">GRASS GIS 6.4.0RC1</a> released 23 Dec 2008
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| 392 | <li> <a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/6.4.0RC2-News">GRASS GIS 6.4.0RC2</a> released 12 Jan 2009
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| 393 | <li> <a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/6.4.0RC3-News">GRASS GIS 6.4.0RC3</a> released 26 Jan 2009
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| 394 | <li> <a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/6.4.0RC4-News">GRASS GIS 6.4.0RC4</a> released 12 Apr 2009
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| 395 | <li> <a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/6.4.0RC5-News">GRASS GIS 6.4.0RC5</a> released 9 Jun 2009
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| 396 | <li> <a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/6.4.0RC6-News">GRASS GIS 6.4.0RC6</a> released 20 Mar 2010
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| 397 | <li> <a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/6.4.0RC7-News">GRASS GIS 6.4.0RC7</a> released 27 Aug 2010
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| 398 |
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| 399 | <li> <b>GRASS GIS 6.4.0 released 3 September 2010</b> (see also <a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/6.4.0-News">technical announcement</a>)
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| 400 | </ul>
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| 401 |
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| 402 | <hr>
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| 403 | <a href="abstract_grass640.txt">Short version</a>
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| 404 | <!-- |
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| 405 | <a href="abstract_grass640_CZ.txt">Short version (CZ)</a> |
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| 406 | <a href="abstract_grass640_PL.txt">Short version (PL)</a>
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| 407 | <a href="abstract_grass640_DE.txt">Short version (DE: Kurzfassung)</a> |
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| 408 | <a href="riassunto_grass640.txt">Short version (IT: riassunto)</a>
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| 409 | -->
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| 410 |
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| 411 | <hr>
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| 412 | <address>
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| 413 | <a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/community/team.php">GRASS Development Team</a><br>
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| 414 | Date: 3 September 2010 (last changed: $Date: 2010-09-11 05:55:56 +0000 (Sat, 11 Sep 2010) $)
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| 415 | </address>
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| 416 |
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| 417 | </td></tr></table>
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| 418 |
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| 419 | </body>
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| 420 | </html>
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