[GRASSLIST:1771] R: Production GIS with Grass

[Andrea Aime]

Here at Modena we are using GRASS in a research project that lead to a
commercial product
that would be used in production environment. That is a client/server
product, were the client
is a Windows machine and the server a Linux box with GRASS and PostgreSQL...
of course
only the client side is commercial software. We have used GRASS as an
engine, wrapping it
in a more comfortable user interface and enabling client/server interaction.
That's still not a
production environment but we're not far from it as we have eliminated the
two biggest
shortcomings of GRASS from the point of view of a Windows user: the user
interface and
the operating system, that's still percieved as unfriendly (well, in fact
Linux is still difficult
to set up and mantain for our average user).
Hope this helps
Andrea Aime

PS: BTW, I heard rumours that ENEL, our national electrical company, is
using GRASS
along with Autocad Map for their GIS needs... but I don't know anyone that
can confirm
this or give in deep information about it... In general I suspect that GRASS
and Linux are
used more often that one can expect, but often their users are not aware of
it (because
they are used on the server side...)


----- Original Message -----
From: Mitch Day <mday at atlas.socsci.umn.edu>
To: Grasslist <GRASSLIST at baylor.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 9:29 PM
Subject: [GRASSLIST:1767] Production GIS with Grass


> Good afternoon,
>
> Are any members of this list aware of instances where Grass has been
> implemented as a "production" GIS, rather than in an academic or research
> setting?
>
> I am trying to identify any such cases and engage someone involved with
> them in a brief conversation.  Perhaps the entire list would like to
> listen in?
>
> Thanks in advance for any input.
>
> Mitch Day
>
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