(CA-OPENOSX-INC) OpenOSX Ships Grass GIS Pre 3 CD
Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SWALL MEADOWS, Calif.--(OPENOSX-INC)--Feb. 7th, 2002--

OpenOSX, a leading provider of easy-to-use, world-class open-source software, today began shipping their Grass GIS Pre 3 CD. Grass (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) GIS (Geographical Information System) is a complete state-of-the-art geographical operating system. Grass is one of if not the most complete and sophisticated open- source GIS, now in development for more then twenty years.

The OpenOSX Grass GIS Pre 3 CD will transform a Macintosh running Mac OS X into a full-fledged GIS workstation in minutes. The OpenOSX Pre 3 CD offers Mac OS 10.1 compatibility (including dual-processor support), additional modules, along with numerous bug fixes.

With over 350 modules, Grass is the only real alternative to ArcView GIS, which when fully-configured will cost more than US$20,000 per seat and is not supported on Macintoshes.

Grass GIS offers state of the art three-dimensional dynamic spatial analysis and visualization. Users of Grass include NASA, USGS (U.S. Geological Survey) and NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) to name a few.

Some popular file formats Grass supports are: GeoTiff, Tiff, DXF, SDTS, DEM, Shape, ELAS, PNG, ARC, MIF, Tiger, Garmin, ASCII and more.

Some features at a glance:

Ortho-Rectification
Digital Elevation Model Creation and Editing
Hypsography (Contour Lines) Generation
Autonomous Digital Line Graph (DLG) Creation
Project/Re-project Raster & Vector Data in More then 120 Projections
Autonomous Thematic Polygon Generation
Export and Import (most) GIS Data with Attributes
Classification & Reclassification
Shaded Relief with 16-bit Precision
Geostatistics and Spatial Data Analysis
Statistical Analysis
Coordinate Conversion
Neighbor Variance
3-D Visualization
Surface Prediction
Simulation Modeling Capabilities:
Erosion Modeling
Storm Water Runoff
Soil & Water Assessment
Watershed Calculation
Wildfire Spread Simulation

The OpenOSX CD greatly simplifies installation and will install a long list of all the required libraries and programs for full functionality. The CD is bundled with complete documentation and limited installation support. The following software packages are installed and fully configured for Mac OS X:
Grass 5.0 Pre 3
NVIZ 2.2
XFree86 4.2.0
Mesa 4.0.1
XDarwin 1.1
Tcl/Tk 8.3.3
PostgreSQL 7.1.3
FFTW 2.1.3
GDAL 1.1.5 (Geospatial Data Abstraction Library)
OroborOSX 0.75a4r2
Oroborus 1.14.0

The owner of OpenOSX, Jeshua Lacock, has published the Grass Pre 3 binaries for free and immediate downloading. The binaries do not include support or the required software that is installed and configured by OpenOSX.com’s CD. The binaries may be downloaded from Grass's home Baylor University or from: <http://grass.itc.it/grass5/binary/mac_os_x/> .

The OpenOSX Grass CD is US$40 and 6-month CD subscriptions are available for US$100. More information about the OpenOSX Grass Pre3 CD is available at <http://OpenOSX.com/grass/>.

OpenOSX is a trademark of OpenOSX, Incorporated, all other trademarks are owned by their respective owners. OpenOSX.com is a privately held company.

CONTACT: OpenOSX.com
Jeshua Lacock, 760/935-4736
jeshua@OpenOSX.com
http://OpenOSX.com

KEYWORD: CALIFORNIA
INDUSTRY KEYWORD: SOFTWARE PRODUCT
SOURCE: OpenOSX.com