From healthmaps@home.com Thu Jun 7 06:40:54 2001 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.04) with ESMTP id f57Dep0113248 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 06:40:51 -0700 Received: from femail11.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail11.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.107]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.04) with ESMTP id f57DepK29460 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 06:40:51 -0700 Received: from c501552d ([24.19.225.248]) by femail11.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with SMTP id <20010607134051.QGMF26560.femail11.sdc1.sfba.home.com@c501552d> for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 06:40:51 -0700 From: "Health Maps" To: "WAPHGIS" Subject: waphgis: Free GIS Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 06:40:45 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0012_01C0EF1C.C7F83870" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0012_01C0EF1C.C7F83870 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit http://gis.about.com/science/gis/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.free gis.org/ Free GIS - anyone had experience with any of these? It would be an interesting experiment to see how complete your GIS lab could become using just free software. It is certainly to possible to do it for a modest investment with Maptitude (www.caliper.com) and Manifold (www.manifold.net). For a raster GIS, IDRISI is more expensive, but cheaper for education and developing nations http://www.clarklabs.org/01home.htm Richard Hoskins healthmaps@home.com GMT -8 ------=_NextPart_000_0012_01C0EF1C.C7F83870 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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