GRASS ( English Geographic Resources Analysis Support System - a system for processing spatial information; the abbreviation is the English word grass - grass) - open source software for building geographic information systems . Supports a large number of data formats. Released versions that work in the environment of operating systems: Microsoft Windows , Apple Mac OS X , POSIX- compatible in general and Linux in particular.
| GRASS GIS | |
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 GRASS GIS | |
| Type of | Geographic Information System |
| Developer | GRASS Development Team |
| Written on | |
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| operating system | POSIX (including GNU / Linux and Apple Mac OS X ), Microsoft Windows |
| First edition | 1984 [1] |
| Latest version | 7.6.0 (January 21, 2019 [1] [2] ) |
| License | GNU GPL |
| Website | grass.osgeo.org |
Content
- 1 History
- 2 Implementation Features
- 3 See also
- 4 notes
- 5 Links
History
GRASS has been developed since 1982 with the participation of the US government, research institutes and companies.
Implementation Features
This software (software) is built on the principle of modularity and integrates many different modules that solve problems from visualization to import / export to various data formats. Initially, the system is focused on working with the command line, but now there are two graphical interfaces to this system.
See also
- Gvsig
- Quantum GIS