Re: recent swarm-grass progress?

[Dr. Paul Box]

Well-timed question!

I have also been very excited by the prospect of swarm-gis, though other 
details 
like finishing a dissertation, family considerations, moving, etc. have taken 
precedence over the last several months.

I have just started work as an assistant professor at Utah State, and have 
obtained (some) resources from the geography department to continue development 
on the swarm-gis interface.  With this allocation and declaration of intent, we 
have just obtained .orglet status for swarm-gis.  (being an .orglet doesn't 
imply any exclusive rights to anything on our end, it just means that we have 
announced that we are doing development in this area, that we will make 
ourselves available as a resource to anyone with interest in this, and welcome 
discussion with anyone else doing similar work).  

I have not yet gotten the grass2d object to work correctly, and my own attempts 
at a swarm-gis have not been anything close to something that can be released 
to 
the community (yet).  My work over the last few weeks has been getting swarm to 
compile correctly on our sun network, and this week is the week that I start 
fiddling with grass2d again.  

As for working with grass coming out of an aml background, everyone is entitled 
to their opinion.  I personally think grass is great for analytical work, 
though 
arc/info makes prettier maps.  The general consensus at the swarmfest in 
February was that arc/info is a little too proprietary to effectively develop 
with swarm in its present state.

I will have the swarm-gis webpage written sometime this week.  It should be 
reachable first through my personal page at http://www.nr.usu.edu/~sanduku and 
should have its own page when the development effort takes off.

I look forward to there being some action in this group after so many months of 
inactivity.  Please feel free to contact me to discuss anything to do with 
swarm 
and/or gis.

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