[Gvsig_english] gvSIG advantages

[Andrés Maneiro]

Hello Chetan (and welcome!),

gvsig uses sextante as raster processing framework. Take a look at what 
you can do with it:

http://sextantegis.blogspot.com/
http://sextante.forge.osor.eu/

Sextante integrates a lot of GRASS algorithms inside (AFAIK you should 
have GRASS installed for those algorithms to work).

best,
amaneiro

On 24/05/11 12:45, Chethan S. wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> My first post in this list. I have been a GRASS GIS user for nearly an
> year now. Just for a change I was searching for FOSS GIS packages when I
> came across gvSIG. Looking at the screenshots
> <http://www.gvsig.org/web/projects/gvsig-desktop/tour/image-gallery-1>
> here gvSIG seems to have lot of features. I particularly liked the
> single window interface when compared to GRASS. So I wanted to know how
> gvSIG would suit for image processing and GIS operations in general. How
> are the map composing features in gvSIG? I would also like to know which
> fares better amongst gvSIG or GRASS for image classification task -
> particularly digitizing training sites which is improving in GRASS these
> days(even then working with QGIS is easy for the purpose), ability to
> handle large rasters and vectors in the process, ease of map composing etc.
>
> Thanks and regards,
>
> Chethan S.
>
>
>
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