From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2cfb9497fbc094e5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-09-09 00:45:29 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newspeer.monmouth.com!uninett.no!dax.net!juliett.dax.net!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Recommendations:GIS program in Ada References: From: Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen Message-ID: <7vwupva9on.fsf@vlinux.voxelvision.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 07:44:57 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.216.12.150 X-Complaints-To: abuse@tele2.no X-Trace: juliett.dax.net 1031557497 193.216.12.150 (Mon, 09 Sep 2002 09:44:57 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 09:44:57 MET DST Organization: Tele2 Norway AS Public Access Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:28784 Date: 2002-09-09T07:44:57+00:00 List-Id: tatebll@aol.com (Bill Tate) writes: > I've been looking for any excuse to build an application in Ada - > specifically a GIS program with a business analysis focus (the > commercial alternatives are expensive, do not fit my particular needs > & they are not written in Ada - the latter being a non-starter with me > anyway). > As far as I can determine thus far, the GtkAda.Canvas package offers > some nice features already built-in and the overall GtkAda package > appears to be quite comprehensive. My preference is avoid going the > OpenGL route if at all possible. > What's wrong with OpenGL? It has an Ada interface, and is well supported both on Windows and Unix. With a modern graphics card, the performance is very good. > If anyone has any thoughts, recommendation and/or reservations, etc., > I would greatly welcome any feedback. Thanks in advance, > > Bill