GRASS GIS
GRASS (the Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) is a software raster- and vector-based GIS (Geographic Information System), image processing system, graphics production system, and spatial modeling system. It contains many modules for raster data manipulation, vector data manipulation, rendering images on the monitor or paper, multispectral image geocoding and processing, point data management and general data management. It also has tools for interfacing with digitizers, scanners, and the PostgreSQL, DBF, and ODBC connected databases. GRASS operates on all common operating systems.
| Tags | Graphics Editors Scientific/Engineering Geographical 3D Rendering Database Software Development Libraries education multimedia |
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| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Windows Windows Cygwin Mac OS X Linux |
| Implementation | C Python |
| Translations | Many languages |
Recent releases
- 27 Mar 2009 22:23
Changes: Since the 6.3.0 release in April 2008, more than 1450 source code modifications have been made in the 6.4.0 release branch.
- 29 Jun 2008 07:00
Changes: Many fixes were made for native MS Windows support. The GRASS-SWIG prototype interface was improved. The SQL parser was extended. A partial differential equations library with OpenMP support was added. A major clean-up was done to the display architecture. A major rewrite of GUI components was done.
- 30 Nov 2007 07:07
Changes: This release adds further maturation of the GRASS 6 GUI, vector, and database code. Some improvements have been backported from the GRASS 6.3 development branch, in which new development continues at a strong pace of approximately one code commit every hour, including major work on a new cross-platform wxPython GUI and a native MS Windows port.
- 16 Jul 2007 11:20
Changes: This release fixes several bugs discovered in the 6.2.1 source code. It is solely for stability purposes, and adds no new features. The default GUI has been further stabilised, and the LIDAR processing tools and Linear Reference System support significantly improved. There are a number of new message translations, and updates for the help pages.
- 05 Jan 2007 00:40
Changes: Install bugs on Solaris were fixed. Support for non-standard ETRS_1989 datum name was added. Error messages on failed startup were improved. Bugs were fixed for GCC 4.1.x and non-C locales, the geo-rectifier, and the zoom capability. Tools for generating 3D volume maps were added. Other minor bugs were fixed.
