GRASS GIS in the News

Here the very incomplete collection of GRASS GIS in the News

[ See also: GRASS Web site news archive ]

2008

May 2008: New GRASS Release Migrates to Microsoft Windows (GISCafe, by Susan Smith)
May 2008: Nonprofit chooses Ubuntu for servers, OpenOffice for desktops (TechTarget)
April 2008: GRASS GIS releases version 6.3.0 (GISuser)
April 2008: FOSSGIS 2008 mit neuem Teilnehmerrekord (Geobranchen.de)
April 2008: GRASS Open Source GIS (Geoconnexion article)

2006

September 2006: Markus Neteler Wins Sol Katz GFOSS Award (see also: ANSA.it)
September 2006: SDI-Africa Newsletter announcing GRASS 6.1.0 release
August 2006: 'Fortune 500 Cos lose 10% of profits with current software' - Interview with M. Tiemann
August 2006: GRASS GIS 6.1.0 released 11 August 2006 by DirectionsMag
June 2006: Uncovering progress in FOSS-based archeology by: NewsForge/M. Fioretti
June 2006: Open Source and Open Standards in Geospatial Technologies; Two Kinds of Open Come Together by Geo Informatics
June 2006: Wired News: Where 2.0 Gives the World Meaning (OSGeo and GRASS)
April 2006: Not Your Old GRASS Anymore by GIS Monitor (Interview with Markus Neteler)
March 2006: Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS): More Than a Mapping Tool (Oracle Technology Network)
3 March 2006: Initiative zur Förderung von Open-Source-GIS-Projekten (on OSGeo Foundation)
9 Feb 2006: A Meeting of the Minds by Kevin Flanders
8 Feb 2006: Open Source Geospatial Foundation gegründet by geoportal.de
5 Feb 2006: Open Source Geospatial Foundation: Big Strides in Chicago by Adena Schutzberg/Directions Magazine

2005

22 August 2005: Release of GRASS 6.0.1: News.geoportal.de
16 August 2005: Ottawa user group focuses on GRASS: www.itbusiness.ca
8 August 2005: Release of GRASS 6.0.1RC1: News.geoportal.de
July 2005: Open Source Geospatial (OSG'05) conference: Open Source Geospatial '05: Ten Ideas Worthy of Note (Directions Magazine)
June 2005: "G�graphie libre" (Linux Pratique 29)
June 2005: "An Introduction to Open Source Geospatial Tools": O'Reilly Network
May 2005: Find your way around open source GIS by Frank Pohlmann
May 2005: OpenSource GIS Review Report - OpenSource GIS for Small Businesses in the Atlantic Provinces
May 2005: "Where GRASS is free -- Exploring the roots of GRASS, the most widely-used Geographical Information System available under the GPL Linux" in: Linux Users & developers; Issue 48 (no online article available)
RIADE, ACS, GRASS: research, business and free software a browser and a 4D visualizer for time series of georeferenced data (PDF)
Software You Can Play With: Open source software can be useful for landscape architects. By James L. Sipes, ASLA
eoPortal announcement of GRASS 6.0.0 (European Space Agency)
LWN.net article: Development - GRASS GIS Version 6.0.0
March 2005: GRASS 6.0.0 release - search Google News and Google News
March 2005: GRASS GIS 6.0.0 Released 23/3/2005 - GIM International
February 2005: LWN.net - The GRASS Geographical Information System February 9, 2005, by Frank Pohlmann
January 2005: GeoWorld Feature Article: QUICK TAKE REVIEW - GRASS 5.4 and 5.7
January 2005: grass.itc.it is featured web site at ibiblio.org!
January 2005: GRASS 6.0.0beta1 GISuser.com announcement

2004

14 Dec 2004: GRASS elected as 'Site of the week' by GISuser!
Running GIS on Open Source by Yakov Smotritsky, New York University.

2003

Open Source Software in the Geographic and Location Industries: A Case Study (Directions Magazine, Jul 16, 2003)
GIS Monitor: Special Open Source Issue (June 12, 2003)
Sturmalarm per SMS - GRASS/RADAR forecast system (Berliner Zeitung, 2003)

2002

Videos from the Open source GIS - GRASS users conference 2002, Trento, Italy, 11-13 September 2002
GRASS 5 Free Geographic Information System 5 - Directions Magazine
Geografick informa?n syst� GRASS II by Rado Bonk (25. July 2002)
Geografick informa?n syst� GRASS I by Rado Bonk (9. July 2002)

2001

Free Software and the Spatial Data Infrastructure (on LinuxToday, 20.12.2001)
OPEN SOURCE SUL TERRITORIO - A Trento seminario sul sistema "Gis Grass" regressi (l'Adige Trento (Italy), 26. Nov. 2001) [PDF]
OpenOSX Grass Pre 2 CD, Now Shipping (October 22nd, 2001)
GRASS at Linuxtag 2001, Stuttgart, Germany (5. - 8. Juli 2001)
GRASS and MacOS X
GRASS Web Site is Site of the Week (SpatialNews) - 16. April 2001
Know-how: Das Geo-Informationssystem GRASS (Linux Magazin: Mai 2001)
Open Source, GIS and Data Visualization? - Slashdot discussion (April 13th 2001)
macnews.de über GRASS (3/2001)

2000

GRASS growing on Mac OS X (by Dennis Sellers, 11/2000) - on SpatialNews as well
GEO-Informationssysteme unter GNU/Linux (from Bernhard Reiter in Linux Community)
GeoWorld Magazine 5/2000 - Fred Limp compares several GIS.
GRASS Grows Again. Powerful Windowed GIS by Yakov Smotritsky, New York University.
What SpatialNews says... search!
Brave GNU World - Issue #14/2000
Directions Magazine
GRASS at Freshmeat
GIS Report 2000: German book on 280 GIS products including GRASS 5.

Some responses to our Press Release from October 1999

GRASS Is Now Greener. A Geographic Information System Joins the GPL Family. From Abhijeet Chavan (linuxpower.org)
GRASS on Spatial News - Daily GIS News Wire
Lots of discussion at Slashdot.org
Notification at Open Source www.remotesensing.org
Notification at Scientific GPL Software Initiative

Newsgroup: comp.infosystems.gis

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