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Re: [school-discuss] GIS



That's cool!! It looks like qgis is a more user friendly front-end to
GIS-GRASS. 

Maybe the use of more tools like this will improve American students
geography knowledge.

On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 23:49 -0500, Karl Pena wrote:
> R. Scott Belford wisely pointed folks to GRASS.
> 
> Here's another GIS tool being developed:
>  QGIS:   http://qgis.org/content/view/24/104/
> 
> Keep in mind that I don't know what I'm talking about, I am not a GIS
> Analyst, just a "GIS groupie", and I've heard everyone rave over GRASS. ;)
> 
> Rick -- did you find what you needed?
> 
> HTH,
>  -Karl
> 
> 
> On Sat, 1 Dec 2007, Joel Kahn wrote:
> 
> > Rick Watson, one of the leaders of the
> > Global Text Project, has expressed a need
> > for a geographic information system (GIS).
> > In addition, Rick wrote,
> >
> > >we need some volunteers who are
> > >willing to investigate what open source
> > >GISs are available, recommend a product
> > >for us to adopt, install it on a server,
> > >and help with setting up a data entry and
> > >reporting interface. This could make an
> > >excellent class project for someone
> > >teaching in the data management area.
> >
> > Anyone who is willing & able to help
> > should contact Rick at this address:
> >
> > richardtwatson@xxxxxxxxx
> >
> > Have fun.
> >
> > Joel
> >
> >
> >
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> 
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