[GRASSLIST:1200] Re: creating a desktop GIS application using GRASS

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 10:53:24PM +1200, Hamish wrote:
> > > Put GRASS on a Live Linux CD and a choice of pre-packaged modules
> > > with datasets: a global dataset, localized data for your
> > > country-region, specialized datasets for diff disciplines, &c.  Sort
> > > this all out for the user.  Give him reasonable defaults, and
> > > pre-arranged mapsets.
> > 
> > You might have seen that we've already have GRASS on several
> > live running CDs. The problem mainly is in the data.
> 
> 
> If you want sample data on the live CDs, we first need to get Spearfish
> packaged and into Debian/testing, which probably isn't that hard to do.
> Most of the live CDs are Knoppix based which is in turn Debian based.
> Get it into Debian, simple to put it in everything else.

Spearfish probably is not enough.

> Are the Spearfish maps licensed as free software according to the DFSG?
>  http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines

I don't know for sure, but I hope so.

> The other issue is convincing the live-CD distros to include the data;
> Spearfish is 26mb uncompressed.

Leave something else out.
	Bernhard
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