[GRASS-dev] GIS based Flash simulations

[Hamish]

dasuni kannangara wrote:
> i need to develop a GIS based application which simulates patterns in
> weather of all regions of the country. For that i am hoping to display
> the variation of temperature over a period of time as an animation
> (simulation). I hope to provide the output (simulation) in a web site so
> anyone can view the simulation as a Flash animation. Also the user is
> given the capability to upload any dataset (population,rainfall)
> and view the output as a Flash simulation through that web site.
> Can i use GRASS to develop the above appliation?

yes,

> Does GRASS support data formats which Flash can recognize??

I don't know about software which encodes to Flash, but I'm sure it's
out there and not too difficult. Mplayer plays them, so maybe Mencoder
encodes them?

This will cover most of the GRASS specific parts:
  http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Movies



Hamish