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* [http://www.grassbook.org/ 3rd edition of Neteler and Mitasova's GRASS Book] published by Springer.
 
* [http://www.grassbook.org/ 3rd edition of Neteler and Mitasova's GRASS Book] published by Springer.
 
: <font size="-2">--HB: ''while not per se a direct accomplishment of the project or PSC, it is an important milestone for the community that such a book has been published about it (repeatedly) by a major scientific publishing house.''</font>
 
: <font size="-2">--HB: ''while not per se a direct accomplishment of the project or PSC, it is an important milestone for the community that such a book has been published about it (repeatedly) by a major scientific publishing house.''</font>
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* Chapter about GRASS published in [http://www.springer.com/geography/gis+cartography/book/978-3-540-74830-4 Open Source Approaches in Spatial Data Handling].
  
 
* [http://grass.osgeo.org/devel/i18n.php#statistics Translations]: more than 10 languages are well supported
 
* [http://grass.osgeo.org/devel/i18n.php#statistics Translations]: more than 10 languages are well supported
 
  
 
=== Areas for Improvement ===
 
=== Areas for Improvement ===

Revision as of 14:22, 5 March 2009

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GRASS GIS

Key Accomplishments

  • GRASS 6.3.0 released - a technology preview (announcement)
  • GRASS 6.4.0 prepared and release candidates published (details)
  • Work on GRASS 7 started
  • Integration of GRASS into the OSGeo4W installer now active and productive
  • New developers acquired: 5 to main archive, 12 to AddOns repository.
  • More than 1000 subscribers in the grass-user mailing list
(470 in grass-dev, many more in the other GRASS mailing lists)
  • In total 22 TB of downloads from grass.osgeo.org in 2008
(statistic; not including downloads from mirror sites)
--HB: while not per se a direct accomplishment of the project or PSC, it is an important milestone for the community that such a book has been published about it (repeatedly) by a major scientific publishing house.

Areas for Improvement

  • An automated build environment, especially for the OSGeo4W installer is desired
  • Development of a framework for efficient and semi-automated translations of the 400+ module help pages
  • Unrelated to the GRASS development: a SVN history "annotate" ability for Trac source code browser would be helpful

Opportunities to Help

Outlook for 2009

  • Vector topology speedup
  • Overhaul of raster library
  • Partially addition of parallelization (mostly using openMP)
  • Cartography GUI extension programmed
  • Further participation in Google Summer of Code (we hope)
  • Stability on MS Windows leading to incredible gain of new users
  • Move/removal of web-svn documentation to our MediaWiki site; move/removal of development material from MediaWiki to our TracWiki site