[GRASS5] Start planning for GRASS 6.2?

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 07:34:10AM -0400, Michael Tiemann wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 22:53 -0700, Michael Barton wrote:
...
> > The other is a better attribute database management system (some kind
> > of a spreadsheet like form for data tables, with some basic editing,
> > selecting, and maybe even querying).
> 
> I /love/ this idea.  I think it would be one of the most powerful things
> we could offer.
> 
> >  There was some discussion a short while back about adapting an
> > existing set of tools for this, tied to implementing SQLite (I can’t
> > remember who at the moment). More recently, the possibility has been
> > raised about making SQLite the default attribute data management
> > system—although having briefly looked at the new system used by Open
> > Office 2, I wonder if we might want to think about heading in that
> > direction (or does the Java platform make it difficult?). Is this a
> > possibility in the near future?
> 
> I think we should look hard at solutions that integrate directly with
> OpenOffice.org.  OOo Calc is not my favorite spreadsheet, but it's a
> very popular one, and to be able to integrate GRASS into OOo would be to
> immediately reach thousands of potential users who want to plot
> demographic (and other) data against things like US states or countries
> or counties, etc.

While I agree to have a nice GUI for attribute database management,
there is still the 65xxx limit in OpenOffice2. In GIS we easily hit
such limits...
Is there an alternative?

Markus