[GRASS-dev] GRASS GIS 6.1.0 released 11 August 2006

The GRASS Development Team announces:

GRASS GIS 6.1.0 released 11 August 2006

A new technology preview version of GRASS GIS is being released today
in preparation for the next benchmark release, GRASS 6.2. This feature
release, version 6.1.0, improves upon the previous stable version of
GRASS by adding hundreds of new features as well as support for the
latest GIS data formats.

The Geographic Resources Analysis Support System, commonly referred to
as GRASS, is a Geographic Information System (GIS) combining powerful
raster, vector, and geospatial processing engines into a single
integrated software suite. GRASS includes tools for spatial modeling,
visualization of raster and vector data, management and analysis of
geospatial data, and the processing of satellite and aerial
imagery. It also provides the capability to produce sophisticated
presentation graphics and hardcopy maps.

GRASS is currently used around the world in academic and commercial
settings as well as by many governmental agencies and environmental
consulting companies. It runs on a variety of popular hardware
platforms and is Free open source software released under the terms of
the GNU General Public License.

Joining GRASS's well-developed raster engine the GRASS 6 series
introduced a new topological 2D/3D vector engine featuring support for
vector network analysis and SQL-based DBMS management of linked
attributes. This release improves the integration and functionality of
the raster and vector engines, and 3D raster (voxel) support has been
greatly enhanced.

A new graphical GIS manager and menu system has been implemented,
while the old GUI display manager has been retained and improved for
legacy support. The NVIZ visualization tool has been enhanced to
display 3D vector data and voxel volumes and supports the creation of
on-the-fly MPEG animations. Additional improvements include
substantial message translation (i18n) with support for FreeType
fonts, including multi-byte Asian characters, and tools to allow new
project locations to be automatically generated from input data or
EPSG code.

This is the first release of GRASS as a proposed founding project of
the new Open Source Geospatial Foundation. In support of the movement
towards consolidation in the open source geospatial software world,
GRASS is tightly integrated with the latest GDAL/OGR libraries. This
enables access to an extensive range of raster and vector formats,
including OGC-conformal Simple Features. GRASS also makes use of the
highly regarded PROJ.4 software library with support for most known
map projections and the easy definition of new and rare map
projections via custom parameterization.

Full announcement:
http://grass.itc.it/announces/announce_grass610.html

Short project description
http://grass.itc.it/announces/abstract_grass610.txt

Hi,

Il giorno Fri, 11 Aug 2006 12:16:03 +0200, Markus Neteler
<neteler@itc.it> ha scritto:

GRASS GIS 6.1.0 released 11 August 2006

I'm trying to develop an ebuild for grass-6.1.0 for Gentoo Linux
systems, where I could find the source code? There isn't on the
download page.

Thank you all and congratulations for the release.
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On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 01:42:25PM +0200, Emiliano Giovanni Vavassori wrote:

Hi,

Il giorno Fri, 11 Aug 2006 12:16:03 +0200, Markus Neteler
<neteler@itc.it> ha scritto:
> GRASS GIS 6.1.0 released 11 August 2006

I'm trying to develop an ebuild for grass-6.1.0 for Gentoo Linux
systems, where I could find the source code? There isn't on the
download page.

Thank you all and congratulations for the release.

Good point!
I have added the link:
http://grass.itc.it/download/index.php#g61x

Thanks for preparing the Gentoo ebuild,
please let me know when and how to list it on the download
page.

Markus

Hi,

could You, please, nofiy me when ebuild is ready? Next week I will be able to
test it.

Maris,
Author of original GRASS 6.0 ebuild.

On Friday 11 August 2006 14:42, Emiliano Giovanni Vavassori wrote:

Hi,

Il giorno Fri, 11 Aug 2006 12:16:03 +0200, Markus Neteler

<neteler@itc.it> ha scritto:
> GRASS GIS 6.1.0 released 11 August 2006

I'm trying to develop an ebuild for grass-6.1.0 for Gentoo Linux
systems, where I could find the source code? There isn't on the
download page.

Thank you all and congratulations for the release.

Hi,

there is no need and use to list Gentoo ebuild download (except only if
NerdBoy will refuse to push new ebuild to portage) as it will take just some
days before new GRASS version will be available in portage (ofcourse,
softmasked with ~).
So - hopefuly in week or so "ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge grass" will work.

Maris.

On Friday 11 August 2006 15:06, Markus Neteler wrote:

Thanks for preparing the Gentoo ebuild,
please let me know when and how to list it on the download
page.

Markus

Il giorno Fri, 11 Aug 2006 15:37:35 +0300, Māris Nartišs
<maris.gis@gmail.com> ha scritto:

could You, please, nofiy me when ebuild is ready? Next week I will
be able to test it.

The working (at least for my machine) ebuild was posted on gentoo
bugzilla at:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=94006&action=view

Thanks for the testing, please feedback.
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Hi,

RPM packages of GRASS 6.1.0 for Mandriva, SuSe and Fedora can be
downloaded from

http://www.gdf-hannover.de/software

cheers

Markus

hi,
On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 09:52:22PM +0200, Markus Neteler wrote:

Hi,

RPM packages of GRASS 6.1.0 for Mandriva, SuSe and Fedora can be
downloaded from

http://www.gdf-hannover.de/software

cheers

Markus

congrats, Markus (and Otto), many thanks!

have a nice weekend

jachym

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In message 11 Aug
          Markus Neteler <neteler@itc.it> wrote:

Hi,

RPM packages of GRASS 6.1.0 for Mandriva, SuSe and Fedora can be
downloaded from

http://www.gdf-hannover.de/software

This has the rpm for Fedora 4. Does anyone know if it is also suitable for
Fedora 5? I have had problems with the previous release rpms using FC5.

Cheers,
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Terry Duell

On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 09:31:42AM +0000, Terry Duell wrote:

In message 11 Aug
          Markus Neteler <neteler@itc.it> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> RPM packages of GRASS 6.1.0 for Mandriva, SuSe and Fedora can be
> downloaded from
>
> http://www.gdf-hannover.de/software

This has the rpm for Fedora 4. Does anyone know if it is also suitable for
Fedora 5? I have had problems with the previous release rpms using FC5.

Sorry, I have no idea (but I made these RPMs).
Please let me know if it doesn't work (+ error message). Then I can
try to fix them. But maybe they do work (why not...).

Markus