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[Victor Vanni]

Hi
I am currently working on evaluation of the open source GIS software; GRASS.
I am comparing this software to the industry leaders; Erdas Imagine and
Arc/Info. I have all these software at my disposal and also a couple of
datasets which I intend to use to test the software's.
I have used Arc/Info and Erdas Imagine to carry out some tasks like data
import and converting data from vector to raster format, in addition to
other data manipulation techniques. Now, I intend to put the same datastes
through the same process using GRASS and assessing the results - doing image
to image matches. However, this is not robust enough to give acceptable
results. I have also decided to use criteria like user support, version
control, bug fixes, etc. to answer the question -  Is GRASS as good as
Arc/Info or Erdas Imagine?
I would therefore like advice me on identifying benchmarks for software
evaluation.

Best Regards