Surfer is still improving and that is important (their old defaults was highly problematic and the result was nice colour maps, but with a weak professional foundation). I agree, that its is possibly to solve the integration problems, but without VM we will still need other tools for point aggregation (one of VM's strongholds and very important in data preparetion) and for modeling.
If Mapinfo could add a strong point aggregation function, then Surfer could be a real alternative There is also a free interpolation alternative - GSTAT - at http://www.gstat.org/ - it requires a bit more knowledge about geostatistics, has more advanced functions, is a bit slow and has problems with very large datasets. (there is other interesting tools at http://www.ai-geostats.org/) Ole Gregor, Viborg County Denmark --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 4025
