gis software wanted

• To: slug@Warbucks.ai.sri.com
• Subject: gis software wanted
• From: attila@flash.bellcore.com (Leslie A. Walko)
• Date: Thu, 17 May 90 12:32 EDT
• Cc: attila@bellcore.com

>From:  ROIMSE%METLA%ROUTER.FUNET.FI@Warbucks.AI.SRI.COM (Hannu)
>Newsgroups: bcr.digest.slug
>Message-ID:  <23281@bellcore.bellcore.com>

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> We would need an inexpensive GIS (Geographic Information System) package 
> for Symbolics.  Is there any such system available?   We need to access
> both vector and raster (satellite imagery) data and have some simple 
> map presentation, layer combination, and distance operators available.
> 
> Hannu Saarenmaa
> Finnish Forest Research Institute, Helsinki
> in%"saarenmaa@csc.fi"     fax +358-0-625308
> 


If you find one, could you please post the results? 

[I sent this back to SLUG since I could not generate the correct return
path to the author.] 

Thank you,

Leslie Walko
attila@bellcore.com

p.s. Statice works quite well for certain GIS applications.  It does not
have distance operator primitives, but if your data is point based, that
should be trivial issue.

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