[FRIAM] Distributed Urban Information Systems

Raymond Parks rcparks at sandia.gov
Mon Sep 24 15:54:24 EDT 2007


PPARYSKI at aol.com wrote:
> Idrisi, a sophisticated and professional GIS program, is available from
> Clark University, Nick's academic home, for much less than ARC View. 
> Idrisi is much easier to use than ArcView.

  However, I am not willing to make a minimum $1250 investment without
some chance at a preview or test of the product.  BTW, finding that cost
turned out to be much more difficult than it should be on that web-site.
 The web-site seems to further the stereotype of academics not having a
clue about business.

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