[Freegis-list] Free GIS for realtime data and 3D visualization?

[Markus Neteler]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 06:33:33AM -0800, Peter Fischer wrote:
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>    The other is a *local*, *monolithic*, non-distributed GIS like GRASS GIS
>    (thank you, Allan). Please correct me, if I am wrong. So for GRASS GIS I
>    don*t know whether it is modular so that the viewer can be run on the
>    tablets and the map database could be run centrally so the viewers can
>    access it simultaneously (does anyone know whether GRASS GIS is able to do
>    that?).

GRASS is the opposite of monolithic :-) It's absolutely
modular, you just need a few lines of shell script (or batch file)
to launch one of many commands:
http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/GRASS_and_Shell
http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/GRASS_and_PHP
http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/GRASS_and_Python

Non-distributed GIS: You can run GRASS con clusters if you mean this
(I didn't read the entire thread, sorry).

mobile GRASS: In 2002, we developed "babyGRASS", a 2MB version
by just extracting the modules (commands) we needed for our
iPAQ devices:
http://grass.itc.it/platforms/grasshandheld.html
(my hand in front of the scenic environment around Trento)

There was also a GRASS Server 2004
Radim Blazek, Luca Nardelli: The GRASS Server
http://gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/grass04/viewabstract.php?id=30
It came with voice interface - there should be a film somewhere
demonstrating how it worked.

A modern variant is PyWPS (Python Web Processing Service):
http://pywps.wald.intevation.org/
it has been written with native support for GRASS, using this
some client-server model could be invented.

Cheers,
Markus

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