[GRASSLIST:2066] Re: GRASS v ESRI

[Stefano Maffulli]

Hi Richard,

On Thursday 05 July 2001 12:07, Richard Ford wrote:
> So in light of all the suggestions does there seem to be a link anywhere?
> With say starting in ArcInfo and then moving to --  ??

CommonGIS can import shape files, e00, and a whole lot of other geometry 
formats. As for tabular data, you can import dbf, ODBC/JDBC, Oracle 8, CSV 
and clipboard (just in case someone wants to add data on the fly). Don't know 
about MapServer

> I am yet to look through OpenGIS or was it freegis.org ....  there seems to

it is freegis.org, OpenGIS is another thing :)

> We do need something that requires not too much back end work as we need
> the final project done by December.

CommonGIS has no competitors, IMHO: it is too good right now. (I am not in 
the team anymore, I am not earning money, nor am I involved with the software 
development, but I would really love to see it released as free software).

bye
stef

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