Poseidon Linux

[worker201]

Developed in Brazil.  Seems to be based on Ubuntu, but has a lot of hi-end mapping and scientific visualization software pre-installed.  As someone who has installed most of those programs from source, I can tell you that this is a good thing.  I'd love to try it out, but I'm having a hard time making room for stuff like that these days.  It would be awesome if my Thinkpad had an easy-access hard drive bay, I would swap stuff in and out of there all day long.

Some of the built-in stuff they include:
https://sites.google.com/site/poseidonlinux/details

(that list won't mean much to you unless you're in the mapping industry)

[davidnix71]

If they got Grass to work, they've done well. I tried that on my Mac and it's a mess to install.

[worker201]

I had grass running in Fedora from an rpm - the dependency list was 10 miles long.  So yeah, I could see how building an install package would be difficult.

[piratePenguin]

What application can take logged gps coordinates and produce a 3d plot and tell speed etc at different points?

I had this idea for a simple proof of concept project for 3d canvas on the web.

[worker201]

QGIS should be able to do it.
http://qgis.org/en/download/binaries.html

[WebNuLL]

Thanks, i will check that distro

[Lead Head]

A new member!? Welcome aboard!

[worker201]

If you like that one, try this one out: HostGIS Linux
http://www.hostgis.com/linux/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

It's a Slack-based distro that comes stacked to the gills with spatial database servers and applications, which is ideal for hosting web-based mapping applications.  I was at a GIS user conference today, and met a guy who consults for them - they give the distro away for free, but offer paid development services.  They seem to be a pretty good group, so I thought I'd give a small shoutout.

[Aloone_Jonez]

A new member!? Welcome aboard!

Wow, we don't get very many new members these days!