GRASS GIS Report 2008
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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: x to main archive, y 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)
- ...
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
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