GRASS and maplayout etc

[Andreas Paukner-Ruzicka]

Hello GRASS-Users !
I have some questions concerning the functionality of GRASS:
- How can I create pleasing maps with GRASS ? (I can't get mapgen running on my Linux system !)
- What is XGRASS ? Just a frontend to GRASS or a stand alone product ?
- I have to make a quick decision which GIS-Software to work with for finishing a project modeling erosion losses
	and nutrient immissions into rivers and lakes in a medium watershed in southern Germany
	Therefore I need the following functions:
	- DEM-Support (3D perspective view with polygon data draped over the DEM, slope calculation)
	- Raster overlay and multiplication
	- Display, edit and layout vectorpolygons depending on their database attributes (i.e. all areas
		with landuse farmland should be displayed in brown, with forest on it green etc)
	- Compute watersheds out of the DEM
	- Produce pleasing maps
	- Import data from ARC/INFO (polygons with attributes in e00 format), ArcView (polygons,
		lines and points with attributes), DXF, ASCII-rasters and DEMs
 Is all this possible with GRASS or should I purchase a commercial product like TNTmips or ERMapper
 (I can't afford purchasing ARC/INFO !)

Thanks for your help !
apr


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