GRASS Development
Introduction
Baylor University and the University of Hannover are pleased to announce
this home for the free Geographic Information System -
Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS). GRASS has been
under continual development since 1982 and has involved a large number of
federal US agencies, universities, and private companies. The core
components of GRASS and the management of the integration of the efforts
into GRASS releases were accomplished by the Construction Engineering
Resesarch Laboratory (CERL) in Champaign, Illinois. CERL completed the
last combined release of GRASS as version 4.1 in 1992 and provided updates
and patches to this release through 1995. It has been estimated that
several million dollars of GRASS software development efforts across the
government have been completed since the 4.1 release. Work continues
on new GRASS development and new versions are forthcoming!
The GRASS Development Team is a multi-national team made up primarily of
members in the United States and Germany. Through coordination
with CERL and other GRASS development sites we have packaged these
powerful new capabilities into new formal releases.
Plans
The GRASS Development Team is currently working on new releases of GRASS
that will extend its capabilities well into the next century.
Current Status
- GRASS 4.2 has been released to the public under GPL.
- GRASS 4.3 has been released to the public under GPL. [current stable
version, coordinated at Baylor University]
- GRASS 5.0 has been released to the public under GPL. [current development
version, coordinated at University of Hannover]
- The GRASS 5 CVS repository is online
- The next major release of GRASS is in the planning/development stages.
- Internet-GRASS work continues.
The Future of GRASS
Our main goal is to keep GRASS alive and available to the user community.
We hope that the continued interest in GRASS will result in its further
development and enhancement.
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