AFAIK, JGrass is intented to be more used mainly for hydrological analysis. Not every GRASS command is available in JGrass, and some [nice] stuff in Jgrass is not in GRASS (like r.strahler, IMO).
Carlos On 9/17/07, Gerald Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I saw a recent post that included a reference to jgrass, which I had never > heard of, so I went to the jgrass website, downloaded the manual, and spent > about 3 minutes browsing it. One thing that struck me is the question of why > is there both a jgrass version, written for cross-platform use, and the new > efforts to make 'regular' grass (the 6.3 version we use around here on linux) > run on windows and the mac. And for that matter there is qgis out there, > which also has its own gui and uses grass code to do some gis things. From > afar, it seems like there are some really talented, and incredibly dedicated, > people out there who are kind of reinventing the same wheel. > > Are there some politics I don't know about (it seems like an important part > of these efforts is happening in Italy. Are Italian politics even more > complicated than other politics?), are there really important differences > among these efforts, is it just the nature of OS development efforts, or some > combination of all of the above. > > I hope noone is offended by these remarks. I watch the list traffic for 6.3 > users and developers and am amazed by the way some very bright people, who > might not ever have been in the same room together, collaborate productively. > I'm just wondering late on a Sunday evening if there are ways to make this > effort more efficient. As spatial data become ever more available, and > processing costs continue to fall rapidly, open source tools for both exports > and the masses become ever more valuable. > > Regards, > Jerry > Gerald Nelson > Professor, Dept. of Agricultural and Consumer Economics > University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign > office: 217-333-6465 > cell: 217-390-7888 > 315 Mumford Hall > 1301 W. Gregory > Urbana, IL 61801 > > _______________________________________________ > grassuser mailing list > [email protected] > http://grass.itc.it/mailman/listinfo/grassuser > -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Carlos Henrique Grohmann - Guano Visiting Researcher at Kingston University London - UK Geologist M.Sc - Doctorate Student at IGc-USP - Brazil Linux User #89721 - carlos dot grohmann at gmail dot com +-----------------------------------------------------------+ _________________ "Good morning, doctors. I have taken the liberty of removing Windows 95 from my hard drive." --The winning entry in a "What were HAL's first words" contest judged by 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY creator Arthur C. Clarke Can't stop the signal. _______________________________________________ grassuser mailing list [email protected] http://grass.itc.it/mailman/listinfo/grassuser
