[GRASSLIST:7519] i need references

[ritika at sarai.net]

Dear all,

Hi!, I am a geographer from Delhi. In my department, many 'closed' GIS 
softwares are being used with great efficiency. However, i don't think 
if any one's 'thinking' about it. I wish to read and then write 
something on free GIS and geography. If anyone of you has any references 
- articles or books - on the area of my new interest, then i'd really 
appreciate, if you could share them with me on the list.

I myself do not really know how to work on any of these softwares. But 
the very idea of closed softwares and GIS sounds bit oxymoronic to me.

waiting for enlightenment
ritika

Martin Wegmann wrote:
> On Friday 08 July 2005 10:09, Hamish wrote:
> [...]
> 
>>No license problem. All the major cross platform GUI toolkits have free
>>software implementations: TclTk (what GRASS uses); Motif (GRASS's
>>xanim); gtk+ (wasn't someone working on a gtk frontend?); Java (jGRASS);
>>wxWidgets (no GRASS port AFAIK); and the latest release of QT (QGIS).
>>
>>A GPL version of QT for Windows is the new change.
> 
> 
> thanks for the information - pretty diverse UI options. 
> BTW on kde-apps.org did chrischan 
> http://www.kde-apps.org/usermanager/search.php?username=crischan&PHPSESSID=ef2bde3fbf68d98f758201f8a55effc9
> post a message that he/she wants to code a qt interface, however I don't know 
> the actual status. 
> 
> [...]
> 
>>But GRASS does require a UNIX environment to run in, so it has to use
>>something like Cygwin to provide that, along with all the complexity
>>that entails.
> 
> 
> I did not know that. GRASS requires a UNIX environment and hence will never be 
> available as "*.exe"? Well, then does the Windows user world have to deal 
> with Cygwin. 
> 
> thanks for clarifying these points, regards, Martin
> 
> 
>