GRASS GIS Report 2008

GRASS GIS

 * Contact name: Markus Neteler

Key Accomplishments
the top 5-10 key items that the project or PSC accomplished this period

Web site: http://grass.osgeo.org


 * GRASS 6.4.0 prepared and release candidates published
 * GRASS 7 started
 * Integration in OSGeo4W efforts now active
 * New developers acquired
 * 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)

Areas for Improvement
any weaknesses in process, software, management, etc. that you plan to address or recognise need some help



Opportunities to Help
list areas that could use some help from members and readers of the report


 * Find more translators among the (power) users
 * Publish more use cases in the GRASS Wiki

Outlook for 2009
this is the motivational part that is meant to inspire readers to keep their eyes open for great stuff in 2008 :)


 * Vector topology speedup
 * Overhaul of raster library
 * Cartography GUI extension programmed