On 6/1/07, Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/1/07, Rogelio Serrano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > WTF! US army is doin' linux now? I thought only poor Armies use linux. > > > > Ok a GIS is like a spreadsheet. The algorithms used are the same. You > > can use Berkeley DB as the database where you store chunks of a map > > and associated attributes which can be anything you want. > > 1) GIS is not "like a spreadsheet." It's much, much more than that. > GRASS was developed over ten years. >
In the outside yes. > 2) GRASS has been around for a very long time, long before there was a > Linux. In the 80s and 90s when GRASS was developed, Unix boxes were > very expensive hardware. Yes thats why its expensive. Most of the development is creating the other software needed by the "GIS engine". But GRASS is very nice. You can download the library and try it. -- Lay low and nourish in obscurity _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
