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: 2002-09-06 19:45:37 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Eric G. Miller" Subject: Re: Recommendations:GIS program in Ada Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Pan/0.12.1 (The din of other people) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Comment-To: "Bill Tate" Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2002 02:45:37 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.119.17.82 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1031366737 216.119.17.82 (Fri, 06 Sep 2002 19:45:37 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 19:45:37 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:28766 Date: 2002-09-07T02:45:37+00:00 List-Id: In , Bill Tate wrote: > "Eric G. Miller" wrote in message >> 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. Well, I'd be interested to see where you go with the idea. I've spent a little time working on GRASS (mostly ferreting out obscure bugs in a hacked up 20+ year old C code base). Part of that experience has led me to Ada, though I must admit I haven't gone too far with it - managed to write a line segment intersector and haven't returned to it... > 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. Yes, this "extension" business is clearly a way to fsck customers out of there money. I've been distinctly unimpressed with the amount of functionality actually present in some of these $1500 dollar "extensions". > 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. Hmmm, must research this Kohonen thing...