Geography Reference
In-Depth Information
B.4
uDig
Installing uDig is pretty easy if you are running Windows, Linux, or
Mac OS X. Since uDig is based on Eclipse,
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you obviously need to run
it on a platform supported by Eclipse. The uDig download site
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provides
binary releases for the three aforementioned platforms. The uDig folks
tell me it should also run on Solaris and any other Unix platform that
supports GTK.
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Installation is fairly simple for each platform:
• Mac OS X : Mount the disk image (.
dmg
), and drag uDig to your
Applications
folder.
• Linux : Unzip the distribution file.
• Windows: Run the downloaded .
exe
to install uDig.
Currently, the Windows and Linux binary distributions include a Java
runtime and are ready to run. On Mac OS X, Java is already installed,
and you are good to go. Since all the dependencies needed for uDig are
packaged with it, you don't need to download and install anything else.
This makes it quick and easy to get going.
B.5
GMT
As with most OS GIS applications, you have choices when it comes to
installing GMT. If you are lucky enough to have a system that uses
apt
for package management, it can be as easy as finding out which
packages are available:
root@madison:~
# apt-cache search "Generic Mapping Tools"
gmt - Generic Mapping Tools
gmt-coast-low - Low resolution coastlines for the Generic Mapping Tools
gmt-doc - HTML documentation for the Generic Mapping Tools
gmt-doc-pdf - PDF docs for the Generic Mapping Tools
gmt-doc-ps - PostScript docs for the Generic Mapping Tools
gmt-manpages - Manpages for the Generic Mapping Tools
gmt-tutorial-pdf - Tutorial for the Generic Mapping Tools (PDF)
gmt-tutorial-ps - Tutorial for the Generic Mapping Tools (PostScript)
6.
Eclipse is an “open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools
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GTK is a multiplatform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. It was originally
developed and used in the creation of the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP). See
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