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Which organizations use R for geographic processing?

4 messages · Gabor Grothendieck, Tim Keitt, Edzer Pebesma +1 more

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Gabor Grothendieck
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Not sure if this will become an issue but in case I need
it to justify my toolset does anyone have a list of
recognizable organizations that use R for geographic
processing?

Thanks.
Tim Keitt
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Sounds like a good wiki-page. Is there a wiki for r-sig-geo?

THK
On 3/6/07, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Edzer Pebesma
    

    

      
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All of the partners in the intamap project (http://www.intamap.org/) do, 
for example.
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Edzer

        
Gabor Grothendieck wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

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On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Tim Keitt wrote:

        

            

      
      
      
    

        
No, no wiki. The R-geo site is maintained by me on a remotely editable 
site, works pretty well, and material can be added if sent to me, but not 
otherwise (we are grateful guests there). The mailing list isn't bad, 
being searchable in the R search engines and gmane.

If the underlying question is about the software used for geographic data 
handling, then the answer is that it is largely OSGeo.org (PROJ.4, 
GDAL/OGR, and as an interface GRASS), so that organisations using these 
libraries effectively use the same implementations (conditional on the 
bindings to the libraries being OK, of course). GDAL (pronounced goodle) 
is very widely used, including by GIS software companies (some notes on 
the OSGeo.org website, and on: http://www.gdal.org/credits.html.

Roger