[GRASSLIST:7522] RE: i need references

[David Finlayson]

Start your research here:

http://www.freegis.org

Many of the individual projects listed on that page have references.
There is also a book on GRASS written by Neteler and Mitasova:

http://mpa.itc.it/grassbook2/

That should keep you busy for a few days!

David

On 7/12/05, ritika at sarai.net <ritika at sarai.net> wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
> >
>
>


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-- 
David Finlayson
Marine Geology & Geophysics
School of Oceanography
Box 357940
University of Washington
Seattle, WA  98195-7940
USA

Office: Marine Sciences Building, Room 112
Phone: (206) 616-9407
Web: http://students.washington.edu/dfinlays