[GRASSLIST:1245] Re: creating a desktop GIS application using GRASS

[Buchan Milne]

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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.

BTW, I recently put a spearfish package in Mandrake contrib, with
subpackages spearfish-grass (with a menu entry which attempts to startup
tcltkgrass on the spearfish data set) and spearfish-mapserver (to go
with the mapserver package that is also in contrib).

But there are some complications due to grass not starting up right when
provided with a path to a mapset without a ~/.grassrc5 which has all the
GISDBASE, MAPSET, LOCATION values set.

> Most of the live CDs are Knoppix based which is in turn Debian based.

There is also the minicd project (http://minicd.berlios.de), the scripts
for which will hopefully make it into Mandrake contrib for 9.2.

Regards,
Buchan

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