Just a quick follow up,
Yes I'm going for linux, but I am restricted to openSUSE but
discovered Francesco Teodori maintains an openSUSE repository with GRASS
and QGIS - this should save me at least a day, the beauty of open source!
http://teodori.org/repository/index.php .
Thank you all
Andreas Neumann:
Storage space is so cheap nowadays that I store all of my data in tiffs.
The price has come done, but I wouldn't call it cheap in Africa. A 1Tb
NAS cost me the equivalent of three months groceries for my family.
ECW is easy to compile on Linux. I never tried to compile MrSid.
I absolutely disagree. I'm not the question, I can compile (provided
the appropriate directions are there). The problem is that if my 30
students twice a year have to
compile or, worse, have to hire someone to do it in order to
be able to use mrsid/ecw, they will just keep using windows. Or not
so in my opinion you should contact the companies involved with MrSID and
ecw to change their licence in some sort of dual licence like other
companies did (e.g. Trolltech, MySQL). After all they are interested in
widespread use of their technology - so they should open up and change
their licence
Dear all,
From a QGIS user (newbie) perspective which OS (Vista or openSUSE 11.1)
will be easiest to install and maintain (put me in the same basket as
one of the undergraduates with Agustin Loboto
http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-user/2009-March/004872.html ) .
I need QGIS for
Hi Darren,
If you are already familiar with Linux and have a Linux installation I
would recommend to use QGIS on Linux. It is also easier to install a
component or compile it yourself.
You are also more likely to get support on Linux or OSX since more
developers are using these platforms.
Also
Darren,
If you need ECW/Mrsid support (which is important here as most official
imagery is freely distributed
as MrSid and many (excellent) hiking maps as ECW, that in addition to
the Landsat imagery in the
https://zulu.ssc.nasa.gov/mrsid/), then, I must sadly state that you
face the
I try to avoid ecw and MrSid as you never know what these companies are up
to. Tomorrow they may charge you more to access your image data. It is
never good to store your data in formats you have no control of.
Storage space is so cheap nowadays that I store all of my data in tiffs.
ECW is easy
Thanks Augustin and Andreas,
Due to apparent incompatibilities at the moment with some of the
functionality I need under windows ( mainly from GRASS ) I am strongly
leaning towards linux (openSUSE for me). Seems a safer bet in the mid to
long term. I will go for a couple of days of pain and
I second the ease of use with (k)ubuntu. Ease installs and nice
dependancy resolution.
Mark
On Apr 1, 2009, at 6:29 PM, Nikos Alexandris nikos.alexand...@felis.uni-freiburg.de
wrote:
Darren:
Just a short outline of what I will be doing:
I can go 2 routes Vista or openSUSE. The work is
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