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Another Reason to Speed Up Macs
Authored by: seanasy on Dec 06, '04 04:31:53PM

I'm doing a Master's degree in GIS and Remote Sensing which, for the GIS part, is pretty much all ArcGIS. And, while I'd love to do my school work on my Powerbook, asking ESRI for a Mac port is a bit of a double-edged sword. I really have no faith in their ability to develop a decent interface. So, I lust after and fear a Mac port.

ArcGIS is such a beast that to do a decent Mac port would be a huge undertaking. My fear is that it would be a kludge. They'd probably do it in Java and make it exactly like the Windows versions are something similarly un-Mac like. Maybe I'm not giving them enough credit.

Still, I would like to see a natively developed OS X GIS package. The Mac's historically good graphics processing and vectory goodness makes it seem a natural thing. I even saw a reference to "geospatial applications" on Apple's Tiger overview. That got me excited. I hope they're hinting at something.



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