A bugfix release of GRASS GIS has been published today.
22 February 2006 – The Geographic Resources Analysis Support System, commonly referred to as GRASS GIS, is a Geographical Information System (GIS) used for data management, image processing, graphics production, spatial modeling, and visualization of raster, vector and sites data. It is open source Free Software released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The new features of GRASS 6 cover a new topological 2D/3D vector engine and support for vector network analysis. Attributes are now managed in an SQL-based DBMS. A new display manager has been implemented. The NVIZ visualization tool was enhanced to display 3D vector data and voxel volumes. Messages are partially translated (i18N) with support for FreeType fonts, including multibyte Asian characters. New LOCATIONs can be auto-generated by EPSG code number. GRASS is integrated with GDAL/OGR libraries to support an extensive range of raster and vector formats, including OGC-conformal Simple Features.
GRASS is founding member of the new Open Source Geospatial Foundation.
Platforms supported by GRASS:
GNU/Linux, Sun Solaris (SPARC/Intel), Silicon Graphics Irix, Mac OS X/Darwin, Microsoft Windows with Cygwin, HP-UX, DEC-Alpha, AIX, BSD, iPAQ/Linux and other UNIX compliant platforms (32/64bit). Software
download/CDROM:
* http://grass.itc.it
* http://grass.ibiblio.org
* and various mirror sites
The new source code is available now, and selected binary distributions for major operating systems will be published shortly.
What’s new in GRASS 6.0.2
For details and a list of bugfixes, see the full announcement:
http://grass.itc.it/announces/announce_grass602.html