shrug-l: Looking for Suggestions

[Jason Houck]

Gary,
    I understand your situation in wanting to avoid the high costs
associated with implementing an maintaining a large number of machines
running GIS, but I would warn you about using anything but ESRI.
Students will certainly grasp the concepts of GIS using almost any
software, but with ESRI being the industry standard, I think you would
be doing them a disservice not having them learn the ESRI software.
That's just my two cents.=20

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Subject: shrug-l: Looking for Suggestions

Hi

I am looking for some ideas about software. I have been asked to teach
GIS to under Grad and Grad students.=20

Here is the situation:
1: we run MAC, Linux, XP on the desk tops. (I am looking for GIS
software that runs on all platforms.)

2. I can not incur a large recurring cost or high setup costs for
multiple machines.

What I have so far is:
Software              Cost
Platforms                  Comments       =20
QGIS                   Free        (open source)          Mac, XP, Linux

limited XP
TNTLite                Free        (limited capability)    Mac, XP,
Linux=20
limited data size
Grass                  Free        (open source)           Mac, XP,
Linux=20
steep setup

3. For web services, It will start on a Linux (maybe windows server in 6
months)
Software
MN MapSever                     Free        (open source)
WebView Professional         $360       (Educational License that is
extension in ARCGIS)

If I get a Windows server
Software
MN MapSever       Free        (open source)
Manifold              $300        (fully functional)

Thanks for any ideas or suggestions

Gary Watry

GIS Coordinator
Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies Floirda State University
Suite 200 Johnson Building Tallahassee, Florida 32306

Phone: (850) 644-4174
E-mail: watry@coaps.fsu.edu


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