Ahhh, a well deserved pat on the back for QGIS... Forwarded from the Society for Conservation and GIS mailing list...
Aaron +----------------------------------------+ Aaron Racicot - GIS Programmer +----------------------------------------+ e c o t r u s t www.ecotrust.org +----------------------------------------+ ----- Original Message ----- From: Society for Conservation and GIS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wed Jun 06 12:53:37 2007 Subject: GRASS, PostGIS for the rest of us... You've probably seen a few of my posts regarding GRASS, and though strange people like me prefer to build and run things on *NIX, I gotta say the latest/greatest release of QGIS (www.qgis.org) almost makes me want to run a Windoze desktop..... Quite to my amazement QGIS now includes a fully built version of GRASS 6! Granted, you have to import things and switch GUIs to use the full power of GRASS raster processing, but still...pretty amazing. To top it off, the latest version of Postgres is now bundled with PostGIS (www.postgis.org) in its Windoze installer as well, so you can seamlessly deal with *big* vector, and other relational datasets. (just loaded, indexed, and am crusing around 50 million street segments on my laptop with QGIS and PostGIS, no problem, etc) And of course you can just point/click to add PostGIS and OGC layers to QGIS. What's more, since QGIS directly exports Minn Mapfiles (http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/ ) you can publish PostGIS vector sets and big bad rasters out of GRASS as well. its like...no FUN anymore to just get things running! Man, have things come a long way from the 'good' old days (daze?)! In about 15 min, free of charge, someone with motivation can have a pretty healthy approximation of ArcGIS 9, SDE, and IMS installed with a few clicks. hats off to the incredible folks of QGIS, PostGIS, GRASS, GDAL, etc who have made this possible...for the rest of us... Chris ******************************************************* SCGIS:The LISTSERV for the Society for Conservation GIS www.scgis.org To unsubscribe send the following email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: SIGNOFF SCGIS ******************************************************** _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qgis.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
