LINGANTH Digest - 1 Sep 2010 to 9 Sep 2010 (#2010-87)

[Damien Hall]

>Does anyone have a(n open access or free use or free download, etc.)
>mapping program to recommend?
>
>thanks!
>
>If there is interest, I'll post the recommendations or experiences.

I'd be very interested in a summary of responses. I am a dialectologist and 
so far have used a bought program, MapInfo; I have also been advised, by 
someone who ought to know,* that, if I want my work to feed into any wider 
geographical-studies communities, I really should be using ARCGis, which is 
also not free. But, even having said that, I would be interested in knowing 
what free programs other academic linguists use, just so I know about 
compatibility, etc.

* The person who said this to me is also a dialectologist, but someone who 
has been out of academia and working in a Census Bureau for the last two 
years - so, both ways, he knows what he's talking about in talking about 
the wider communities I might want to tap into.

Hope this helps!

Damien

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Damien Hall

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