Hi Charith, On Apr 1, 2012, at 9:37 AM, Charith Madusanka wrote:
> Hi chris! > > I installed QGIS , its a nice tool and it has lot of features. if we > can launch QGIS > through a command it will be very interesting. > > example : sis -qgis -radius 0 80 4000 I think that would be awesome. The big issue is that QGis is licensed under the GPL: http://www.qgis.org/ Which is incompatible with the Apache License: http://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html What I was thinking is that it would be great if e.g., we could dump the data out of SIS in a standard GIS format (right now we could focus on vector data), and maybe dump it out in GeoJSON, or write a WCS or WMS interface for SIS so that we could then easily load a layer in QGIS. Thoughts? If that doesn't work or is too hard, I'd be totally open to having a small, manageable GUI of our own, as you originally suggested. I'd love to hear your thoughts. The advantage there would be that it would be Apache version 2 licensed. Thanks! Cheers, Chris ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: [email protected] WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
