[Freegis-list] looking for viewer tiff/tfw

[Stephan Holl]

Hello Mr. Harms,

On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 10:01:27 +0100 walter harms <wharms at bfs.de> wrote:

> Hi list,
> i have some dvd's with tiff/tfw/eck/akt viewable with arcview.
> Can anyone recommend a simple tools make the maps viewable with
> linux ? (i know i can see tiff with xv)
> I am aware that grass can handle them but I am not a gis expert, and 
> additionally the usual lack of time.

There are several free Dataviewers available.

You could try Thuban[1], QGIS[2], Udig[3], Jump[4]/deejump[5], etc.

> Ultimately i need these maps as background for measurements. i know 
> there are some free solutions out there but i am missing background 
> knowledge.
> any recommendations ?

All should handle your tasks quite easily. Mostly it depens on your
personal feeling about their GUI.

Best regards

	Stephan Holl


[1] http://thuban.intevation.org/
[2] http://www.qgis.org
[3] http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/UDIG/Home
[4] http://openjump.org/wiki/show/HomePage
[5] http://demo.deegree.org/download/demos/deejump/deejump-20051102.zip
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