Re: [Swarm-Support] extension of the swarm/gis project

[Paul E. Johnson]

Glad to hear about this. I don't know much yet, but I am intending to 
learn.  I may be interested in helping with some coding.  I have a grant 
application in that relates.

For GIS, there is a library that Paul Box and team put together called 
Kenge.  Several people in the swarm-gis list have indicated that it 
worked.  I believe it is online now and you can get it.

It has occurred to me that HDF5 might be one connection between Arc and 
Swarm.

A couple of years ago Marcus Daniels was looking into Arc tools and 
making Swarm talk to them.  I don't know where that led.

PJ


Jan Herrmann wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> I just started researching for my "PHD"(or more exact for my double diploma
> thesis).
> During my work, I'd like to focus on a controller which realizes the
> communication between GIS (for example ArcGis) and Swarm. Especially I want to
> implement a tool which transfers data from/to ArcGis. As I couldn't find much
> about this topic in the web, it would be very helpful for me if anyone could 
> tell
> me something about the state of the art in this field. Is there already a
> kind of GIS-library which you can use inside Swarm simulations?
> I studied geography and computer science so in my work I'd like to combine
> these two subjects. Till now I haven't got a concrete subject and what
> concerns an example in the field of human geography I'm very flexible. Does 
> anybody
> have some ideas in which direction I should research or in which open
> projects I could take part in. 
> I would appreciate any kind of suggestions. Many thanks for any assistance.
>
> Greets
> Jan Herrmann
>
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> Systemadministration & GIS
>
>
>
> Seminar für Sozialwissenschaftliche Geographie (SSG)
>
> Departement für Geo- und Umweltwissenschaften
>
>  


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