From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 3 13: 1:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from posgate.acis.com.au (posgate.acis.com.au [203.14.230.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CF3114CF5 for ; Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:00:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (uucp@localhost) by posgate.acis.com.au (8.9.2/8.9.2/Debian/GNU) with UUCP id FAA26745; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 05:55:00 +1000 (EST) Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (central.apana.org.au [203.9.107.245]) by bullseye.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA01911; Sat, 3 Jul 1999 21:47:42 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 21:39:50 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew MacIntyre To: zhaxing Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: have any GIS software run on freebsd In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-X-Sender: andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, zhaxing wrote: > have any GIS software run on freebsd I'm not aware of any FreeBSD native GIS software, readily available. The GRASS suite is available in source form, and there now appears to be active development on it again after the US Army decided to abandon it. IIRC there's a web home page somewhere at Baylor Uni (the URL's at work :-(). I know someone was trying to build GRASS on FreeBSD, but was having problems. When I get some time I might have a go at building it myself. That said, you might be able to find a Linux binary package of GRASS which may be runnable under FreeBSD's Linux emulator. If you get any pointers to other GIS packages (except Microstation, which I notice someone has responded to you about), I would like to know. I use Arc/Info on Solaris at work, but I don't see much likelihood of a even a Linux version :-( - ESRI are moving toward being an MS-only ISV AFAICT (they'll deny that suggestion of course, but I can't see any evidence to the contrary). -- Andrew I MacIntyre "These thoughts are mine alone..." E-mail: andrew.macintyre@aba.gov.au (work) | Snail: PO Box 370 andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au (play) | Belconnen ACT 2616 Fido: Andrew MacIntyre, 3:620/243.18 | Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message