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,FREEMAIL_FROM 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: 2002-09-06 06:09:07 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: tatebll@aol.com (Bill Tate) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Recommendations:GIS program in Ada Date: 6 Sep 2002 06:09:07 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 172.142.146.47 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1031317747 12475 127.0.0.1 (6 Sep 2002 13:09:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 6 Sep 2002 13:09:07 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:28760 Date: 2002-09-06T13:09:07+00:00 List-Id: "Eric G. Miller" wrote in message > Why would you care if the software was written in Ada? It's not likely > any of the vendors would give you access to their source anyway. No but they do often have api's however, and their api's are written for VB, C++, C or other languages that support MS COM (ugh). And I happen to like Ada :>) > Good Luck. GIS's are fairly complex creatures. After 6 years of GIS development, I'm keenly aware of what you speak but I also don't intend tackle the entire mountain either. > BTW: what "business analyst" functionality are you looking for that >commercial vendors are not providing? Let me clarify my earlier comment. Its not that there aren't any vendors that provide business analyst functionality. Rather its what I define as required functionality often gets split across multiple add-ons or product extensions. Taken in whole, this tends to become an expensive proposition. What I'm doing is entirely a non-commercial effort but important to do my work. In terms of an example. The one most pertinent to me entails combining GIS functionality with modeling/analysis techniques such as neural networks and Kohonen's Self-Organizing Map, in particular. The latter being a useful method for clustering & visualizing highly dimensional data; data which often happens to have an important geographic context to it. The combination of both is useful to me because of how I tend to organize, analyze, and visualize information.