Hey Bob,
My wife is currently enrolled in the "Geography" program at USF and uses
"ESRI", in a Microsoft environment, which seems to be the industry standard.
Poking around the www.esri.com site, I was curious, looking for
Linux/cluster environment to support the GIS. I found this white paper
http://www.esri.com/library/whitepapers/pdfs/using-gis-linux.pdf . My wife
says that the MS version of Esri runs about $1000 and the data you can
scrounge up for free. If you are a student, the sw runs $100/year or $250
for a permanent license. She says that the version she uses (MS) is VB
based. Definately check out the paper,which has some good 411. Might want
to e-mail their technical support, as a "perspective" customer.
Cheers,
Pete
-----Original Message-----
From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net]On Behalf Of Bob File
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 9:47 AM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: [SLUG] Linux and GIS
this thread didn't go very far...
I'm having a hard time getting started with GIS. I can't tell what data to
use
where. Unfortunately, the GRASS tutorial is in German, which makes it a bit
denser than usual to wade through since German is not my second (or even
third) language.
Are there any recomended books or should I just keep googling along?
My primary interest right now would be in conjunction with the geocaching I
do
and using the GPSr data as layer perhaps. Later perhaps I could make some of
this useful to my surveyor buddy.
I didn't find the lists Robin mentioned either ...
hmmm... now where did I put that clue stick?
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