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On Tuesday 07 Dec 2004 17:31, Tony Sumner wrote:
an educational geographic information system called AEGIS 3 (for details go to http://www.advisory-unit.org.uk, click on software then AEGIS 3).
Never had much use for it myself, but then I'm a technician in a Higher Education Geography department and not a Geography Schoolteacher (I know some who think it's great). The description of it on the advisory unit site is good, so I won't waste my fingers.
Is it not a common fallacy that open source means you don't eat? What should I say to her? Are the demo disks of interest?
IMV Teachers are not just interested in software, they are more interested in fully developed exercises which they can use for lessons. So, if you open-source the software you get the benefit that a lot more teachers will try it out, while you concentrate on developing and selling exercises to this expanded market. With luck, some people might even work on the software and improve it. The above is probably pie in the sky thinking - Aegis is what I would call "very windows". If you want free GIS on Linux, try GRASS - It's complex and technical but it could have an educationally focussed GUI front-end built on to it. (from: "Projects I'm never going to have time to do" - volume 3) Tony -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.