request to list, RE: GIS and Swarm (the time has come)

[Paul Box]

We have had a discussion list, swarm-gis, that was formed at the same 
time as swarm-support and swarm-modeling, though that  list has had 
very little traffic.  There has always been interest in GIS and swarm, but for 
whatever reason we have not had that ciritical mass yet.

I have some routines that will import arc/info grid export files into grid2d 
objects as well as write simulation results to the same format, and Jim 
Westervelt wrote something similar that imports and exports grass layers 
to grid2d.

I now have promised 6 people that I will give them versions of what I wrote 
"sometime this fall", and I will be happy to send the same to you.  If we 
can get this cleaned up, I will place it on swarm's contributed software 
site.   This is entirely a volunteer effort, which means that we rarely stick 
to 
timetables.

That said, I really want to have some releasable swarm-gis code.  I will 
need some help with this.  I have finally (last week) overcame one of the 
major time sinks in my schedule, and now have some time that I can 
work on this.

So, now is the time to get this going again.  I am subscribed to swarm-
gis, and know that there's little traffic there.  Would those who would like 
to 
help me with this, subscribe to swarm-gis, and we'll move the discussion 
there.

>===== Original Message From Li An <address@hidden> =====
>Thanks. Can Swarm work with Arc/Info data directly without converting 
data
>to matrix format? There should be a study group with focus on the
>integration of GIS and Swarm--anyone knows where it is? Thanks a lot. 
Li
>
>At 07:43 AM 9/30/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>>Rule of Thumb: If something has a Makefile, type "make".
>>
>>If it doesn't, type javacswarm.
>>
>>
>>To run with the test version of swarm, you will need the jheatbugs from
>>the testing directory.  Look in ftp under apps/java/testing
>>
>
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