[Gvsig_english] GIS for all

[John Ladd]

Thanks to Benjamin Ducke for pointing me to gvSIG OA
(http://www.oadigital.net/software/gvsigoade/gvsigdownload ) and to
Antonio Ordoñez for pointing me to a version of Sextante with useful
help files (http://forge.osor.eu/plugins/wiki/index.php?Downloads&id=13&type=g
).

I now have a really useful GIS system with which I can do real work
and at the same time provide a teaching environment in which the
student can take home the entire environment if they are using a
computer running Windows and almost the entire environment (sans the
terrific Sextante help files) if they are using Mac OSX or Linux.

I would like to emphasize that the Sextante help files in the version
available on forge.osor.eu permit me to review the various Sextante
tools and decide rather quickly whether one or more tools might be
useful in my work application – sort of a mental join between my work
projects and available tools.

Finally as America is becoming increasingly bilingual, it is wonderful
to introduce a software environment into the classroom that originates
in Spanish.

Thanks again.


-- 
John Ladd
43 Hudson Watch Drive
Ossining, NY 10562
tel 914-923-1108