Raymond Parks wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Idrisi, a sophisticated and professional GIS program, is available from >> Clark University, Nick's academic home, for much less than ARC View. >> Idrisi is much easier to use than ArcView. >> > > However, I am not willing to make a minimum $1250 investment without > some chance at a preview or test of the product. BTW, finding that cost > turned out to be much more difficult than it should be on that web-site. > The web-site seems to further the stereotype of academics not having a > clue about business. > Btw, ArcView's capabilities are exposed as COM interfaces (called `ArcObjects') and programming ArcView in Visual Basic is not hard. There are accessible books on the topic.
A related technology that may be of interest is the open source PostGis project. This adds geographical proximity extensions to SQL (Postgres). Marcus ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
