..... and since you are in the maritimes you might be interested to see what Bob Covill is doing with GRASS and other open source tools:
http://www.tekmap.ns.ca/ really a mix of GRASS, Postgis (for really massive datasets), GDAL tools, and GMT are all very useful if each is used to its strength. I must say though, GRASS's r.contour does a really brilliant job if the input raster map is of good quality. Hamish _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user