<p>Hi,</p>
<p>As a user, I would also find the integration of say OTB in GRASS being a plus - a very general segmentation algorithm like the watershed is provided by OTB and is a handy tool at times. OTB being based on VTK, maybe you could make use of some of Soeren's work on the vtk-grass-bridge?</p>
<p>Pierre</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 4, 2012 4:47 PM, "Eric Momsen" <<a href="mailto:eric.momsen@gmail.com" target="_blank">eric.momsen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Moritz Lennert<br>
<<a href="mailto:mlennert@club.worldonline.be" target="_blank">mlennert@club.worldonline.be</a>> wrote:<br>
> I personally am a bit weary of increasing dependencies between packages, but<br>
> at the same time, why re-invent the wheel. Integrating the OTB algorithms<br>
> into GRASS would definitely be a great plus.<br>
><br>
> This said, several FOSS4G programs out there already play the role of<br>
> integrators (e.g. QGIS, gvSIG) and I'm not sure that GRASS should try to go<br>
> the same direction. Generally, I'd say: let GRASS do really well what it<br>
> does, and not try to integrate everything.<br>
><br>
<br>
This does sound critical to me. Being "new" to GIS, I have been<br>
struggling to figure out what the differences (strength/weakness/etc)<br>
are between GRASS, QGIS, etc. I started with GRASS and R and haven't<br>
had time to try out the other programs, so am only comparing based on<br>
what each website describes. I haven't found any feature comparison<br>
table. So I am interested to hear what everyone has to say about what<br>
packages should (or should not) be integrated into GRASS vs. what<br>
packages GRASS is integrated into...but I suspect it is a bigger issue<br>
than can be answered in a GSoC project. :)<br>
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