Ahhh, MapInfo, it was big with the utilities when I was working in that space. When I did coverage studies, we were trying to put the data in different formats, I finally gave up and told them all I was going to give it to them in CSV format, and they could do with it what they wished.
I have been wanting to learn Grass, I have looked at it and it seems that each time I do so I get sucked up into some pro- ject and put it aside. Combine Grass with Splat! which is a wireless coverage model and study tool and you have a great wireless coverage set of tools. Pull in the topography maps and use Splat! to do the modelling based on whatever type of coverage you are looking for, then take a radio and drive it and take real world samples and compare them to see what it really looks like. When I did coverage for ConEd, they had a map from Verizon showing that Sullivan County was 100% covered. We went out and did a drive in the ConEd/Orange&Rockland service area and in Sullivan at one point we drove 6 hours out of coverage, on the EAST side of the county which is the more populous side. I plotted it and they went back to VZN with it, VZN alleged that their people were a bit too zealous about promoting the product and should have checked deeper into the coverage, but the map was all green, so how where they to know? On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 1 Jul 2014, Chuck Hast wrote: > > > I guess this begs the question "What are you going to run?" > > Since 1997 only linux; nothing from Redmond or Cupertino. > > > ... I know that Win7 works better on the VM in Linux than on cold metal. > > In the late 1990s I ran a dual-boot machine with Red Hat and win98 > because > I had to run MapInfo. The win98 crashed quite frequently. Then I got the > free VMware, installed win98 on it and ran MapInfo in the VM. Not only did > it not crash once, but when I timed tests with a friend of mine who still > was running windoze, the VM version ran the application appreciably faster. > > Since 2000 I've used only GRASS for spatial analyses and mapping so I no > longer need a VM. > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Chuck Hast -- KP4DJT -- Glass, five thousand years of history and getting better. The only container material that the USDA gives blanket approval on. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
