Development

The GRASS GIS project is developed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (the GPL) in the open by volunteers the world over.

• WikiPedia entry discussing the GPL

Resources for Developers

• GRASS Programming Howto
• GRASS Programming Manual
• CVS server
• GRASS WebCVS interface browsable source code repository
• Gis Concepts and how they are implemented in GRASS
• GRASS Debugging
• GRASS bug tracking system
• GRASS AddOns (User contributions)
• Code submission standards:
  • C language coding standards
  • Shell script coding standards
  • Tcl/Tk script coding standards
• Code Quality Control System
  • GRASS Software Evolution code analysis
  • GRASS Test Suite

Plans

Overview

• Development Roadmap (needs freshening)
• GRASS Module Porting List (check here if you don't find a certain command in GRASS 6.0)
• GRASS ToDo List (overview of GRASS related community projects)
• GRASS 6-CVS Vector TODO

Sandbox

• GRASS GUI development
• [GRDSS (Geographic Resources Decision Support System) http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/grdss/index.php]
• Ideas on a replacement raster format specification

Linking GRASS to external languages

• GRASS-SWIG interface: generic interface to various languages
• GRASS and PHP
• GRASS and Python
• Integration of GRASS with JAVA based agent based modeling (ABM)
• JAVAGRASS

Related projects

• JGrass - Java based frontend for GRASS
• KerGIS - BSD-like licensed fork of GRASS 4.1.5

• PROJ.4 - Cartographic Projections Library
• GDAL - Geospatial Data Abstraction Library

• OSGeo- The Open Source Geospatial Foundation
• FreeGIS.org - Interactive information base for the GIS Free Software world