Open-Source GIS

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Jonathan Aquino

Just wanted to let the ACF crowd know that I'm working on an
open-source GIS (i.e. mapping software, released under GPL). It's
being funded by a few organizations, so a couple of man-years has been
put into it.

http://www.vividsolutions.com/jump (click on Features for pretty
pictures!). I'm quite proud of it.

Jon
 
Jonathan said:
Just wanted to let the ACF crowd know that I'm working on an
open-source GIS (i.e. mapping software, released under GPL). It's
being funded by a few organizations, so a couple of man-years has been
put into it.

http://www.vividsolutions.com/jump (click on Features for pretty
pictures!). I'm quite proud of it.

Jon
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Amazing how much of the features of the program MapInfo does it have ?
 
rdt said:
Amazing how much of the features of the program MapInfo does it have ?
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Not sure what MapInfo is - maybe you mean ArcInfo? In that case, I'd
say 5%. But hey, it's open source, and it's in Java, so you or anyone
else can submit features to add to it (or write plug-ins).

Anyway, here's the table of contents of the user guide, to give you an
idea:

1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 RELATED DOCUMENTS
2. THE WORKBENCH
2.1 WORKBENCH COMPONENTS
2.2 UNDO/REDO
2.3 ERROR HANDLING
3. TASKS
3.1 ZOOMING
3.2 PANNING
3.3 CREATING A NEW TASK
3.4 OPENING A NEW WINDOW ON A TASK
3.5 SAVING A TASK
4. LAYERS
4.1 LOADING A LAYER
4.2 SAVING A LAYER
4.3 CHANGING LAYER STYLES
4.3.1 Rendering
4.3.2 Colour Theming
4.3.3 Labels
4.3.4 Decorations
4.4 EDITING A LAYER SCHEMA
4.5 CREATING A BLANK LAYER
4.6 REMOVING A LAYER
4.7 COPYING A LAYER
4.8 RENAMING A LAYER
5. SELECTION
5.1 SELECTING FEATURES
5.2 DRAWING A FENCE
5.3 DRAWING VECTORS
6. FEATURES
6.1 INSPECTING FEATURES
6.2 EDITING FEATURES
6.3 ADDING FEATURES
6.4 DELETING FEATURES
6.5 COPYING FEATURES
7. SPATIAL FUNCTIONS
7.1 VALIDATING A LAYER
7.2 COMPUTING AN OVERLAY
7.3 GENERATING FEATURE STATISTICS
8. WARPING
8.1 APPLYING AN AFFINE TRANSFORM
8.2 APPLYING A RUBBER-SHEET WARP
9. OPTIONS
 
Downloaded and tried to run the batch program but got a series of "Bad
command or file name" errors. Then got a popup dialog box labeled
"Java Virtual Machine Launcher" with the error message "Could not find
the main class. Program will exit." Have Java 1.41 installed.

Went through the documentation but could not find an answer to my
problem. --
<Bill>

Brought to you from beautiful Unalaska/Dutch Harbor, Alaska.
N 53° 51.140' W 166° 30.228' (WGS 84)
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I had the same problem but I attributed it to not enough RAM. I think it
still should have installed though. Being a former Surveyor I was quite
interested in the program.
 
I am running 512 megs of memory. I wonder how much it would need. Other
Java programs I have run fine. I am a retired Civil Engineer that has an
interest in these things.
 
I'm disappointed that the installation isn't going smoothly for you
because I want life to be as easy for you as possible. Are you running
Win98 or earlier? I think the trouble here is that my batch file is
doing clever things that Win98 doesn't support. When I return to work
tomorrow I'll post a simpler batch file to this thread.

Jon
 
(e-mail address removed) (Jonathan Aquino) wrote message ID
I'm disappointed that the installation isn't going smoothly for
you because I want life to be as easy for you as possible. Are
you running Win98 or earlier? I think the trouble here is that
my batch file is doing clever things that Win98 doesn't support.
When I return to work tomorrow I'll post a simpler batch file to
this thread.

Jon
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Is this on topic?
 
I am running Windows 98SE. Created JUMPWorkbench.bat and ran it. Did not
get an error message but also did not get any screens. But should I see
when I run this batch file?
 
You would see the splash screen for a few seconds, then the main app
screen.


1) First thing to check is that the batch file has two lines. The
newsgroup system may have broken it into several lines. Here are the
two lines again:

set CLASSPATH=../lib/Chart2D.jar;../lib/Jama-1.0.1.jar;../lib/jdom.jar;../lib/jts-1_3.jar;../lib/jump-1_0.jar;../lib/junit.jar;../lib/xerces.jar

start javaw -Xmx128M
-Dorg.xml.sax.driver=org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser
com.vividsolutions.jump.workbench.JUMPWorkbench -properties
workbench-properties.xml -plug-in-directory ../lib/ext


2) If it still doesn't work, could you take out the word "start", run
it from an MS-DOS Prompt, and tell me any error messages that appear?

Jon
 
Ran it from the Windows 98SE MS-DOS prompt and got the following error
message.

Dialog box was titled "Java Virtual Machine Launcher."

Message in dialog box was "Could not initialize the Java viruual machine.
Program will exit."
 
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