GPS & map software?

[dano]

Dunno if this will answer your question, but here's a little info 
about GPS and the Mac.

I believe GRASS has been ported to YDL. Check Terrasoft's site. In 
fact since you're getting the machine from them and they have GRASS 
in house (it's OSS), why not ask them to install it before shipping? 
(If you can get to them in time.)

ESRI says there is no hope of ArcView ever going to Linux, but who knows...
ThinkSpace (or whatever their name is now) makes MapFactory (also 
renamed) for Mac OS 9. Afaik they are still on the fence on porting 
it to X. However they do a lot of Java programming so maybe they'll 
just port it to Java and not worry about X.

Also, ArcView is vector and MF is raster. Which format will you be 
using and how big will your maps be?


For a good source of general info of GPS on Mac and especially 
hardware, check <http://www.gpsy.com/>. Also check out the article 
that Karen (the owner/manager of GPSy) wrote for TidBits a few years 
back. <http://www.tidbits.com/>

HTH,

DOD

At 4:54 PM -0400 on 8/27/02, Beartooth wrote:
>	I have a new machine due to arrive tomorrow -- the souped
>up iBook from Terrasoft, with iirc 26GB for YDL, 9 for OSX, and 1
>for OS9 (??) -- I hope that's reasonable.
>
><snip>
>	YDL and the bulk of the space are because the other use of
>the machine, as soon as feasible, will be on the passenger's lap in
>conjunction with a GPS -- and, I hope, maybe our existing map CDs
>(Garmin, DeLorme, MapQuest, MapTech) -- all of them written for
>MurkySlop, alas! But that's the last remaining use for the old W98
>drive on this machine -- and it's not going to stop me from
>replacing that drive, and taking the old one to the firing range,
>whereupon we'll be MS-free before '03.
>
>	My experience so far is that my aurally humid marginal
>grasp of linux is nowhere near adequate yet to run either wine or
>any of the presently extant map/GPS software for linux. I'm just
>betting, since I have to bet blind, that linux will manage one way
>or another before Apple does -- and those map CDs are monster
>memory hogs.
>
>	But maybe somebody on this list knows better. In
>particular, is that space allocation (26 : 9 : 1) optimal -- or
>should the partitioning be changed before i start installing
>privoxy on YDL, and other defenses against hacking, advertising,
>and spyware -- as well as browsers, newsreaders, etc??