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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0 Is Here!
Date: 24 Mar 2025 17:17:15 GMT
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On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 16:45:12 +0000, Farley Flud wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 10:17:11 -0400, TJ wrote:
> 
> 
>> I'm a farmer, and I've been mistakenly using GIMP for years to prepare
>> planning maps that show what I want to plant where on my diversified
>> farm. They use a satellite photo as a base, with color-coded fields
>> drawn on it as overlaying layers, labeled with the size in acres.
>> 
>> 
> You would probably be better served with GIS (Geographic Information
> System)
> software such as GRASS GIS for Linux:
> 
> https://grass.osgeo.org/download/linux/
> 
> GIMP is for basic image manipulation on plain old raster image formats.

QGIS is cross platform and would seem like a better match. 
> Attempting to shoehorn such a program into GIS analysis is just asking
> for problems.