[Freegis-list] Paper on the pieces of a free gis.

[Adrian Vance Custer]

Hello everyone,

I've put together some thoughts on how a free GIS could be assembled. It needs
some fleshing out but it's a starting point. My intent is to build an object
oriented GIS- I call it gnuGIS- which can be used for wierd kinds of analysis.
I'm hoping to figure out the object structures, the search tree structure, and
how to modularize the whole thing through the implementation of API layers.
Eventually, I'll develop the details of different possible implementations. The
FMaps project is taking a particular slant towards search structures-putting
everything in the database- and I'll be interested to see how it goes.

So I've attached the document as a .pdf file. I hope it's not too big an
attachment for anyone-if so I'm sorry and if you let me know, I won't do it
again- 

Thanks,
adrian
acuster at nature.berkeley.edu



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