GRASS GIS on Handhelds

Image: GRASS on iPAQ/Linux (Photo: Jan Stankovic/Markus Neteler, ITC-irst)

The GRASS Development Team proudly announces that GRASS is available now for iPAQ/Linux handhelds.
We are grateful to Compaq for providing support to us to prepare the binary version. It has been reported that the same binary also runs on Sharp/Zaurus machines

Image: GRASS on ZAURUS (Photo: Luis E. Menoyo, U.S. Geological Survey)

Image: GRASS/QGIS on iPAQ: new pen-based interface

GRASS on iPAQ

We have contributed a GRASS package to the Familiar Linux Distribution. It will become a standard Familiar package in the upcoming Familiar 0.5.3 release. In the meantime, users of Familiar's unstable feed can directly install grass with the command "ipkg install grass" or through one of the graphical package management tools.

One note of caution, when you do the ipkg install, specify where you want GRASS to go, because the default install directory for the iPaq binary is read-only on the Zaurus. Also, zlib and libncurses5 are required, so get those in first.

Download precompiled iPAQ/Linux binaries (experimental)
Compiling locally: In the development branch in CVS (HEAD) you find a directory "handheld/" containing a script to package sources of GRASS libraries and a subset of commands into a new tarball. This tarball can be compiled with another compile script also stored in that directory. Compilation must take place on iPAQ (you may use the environment provided by www.handhelds.org.
Note that compilation should be done on ipaq[1..7].handhelds.org

GRASS for iPAQ/Linux handhelds was tested on iPAQ 3870 with Familiar Linux v0.5.1 and ICE Xwindow manager that can be found prepared in Familiar Linux distribution. Familiar Linux installation is well described on www.handhelds.org pages.

GRASS/iPAQ should work on any of the existing iPAQ models (31XX, 36XX, 37XX, or 38XX).

GRASS on Sharp/Zaurus

The software also runs on Zaurus. Go here for GRASS/Zaurus installation instructions.

Part of the GRASS/iPAQ development was done for the WebFAQ and the WILMA wireless project.

Reference:
J. Stankovic, M. Neteler, and R. Flor, 2004. Mobile wireless GRASS GIS for handheld computers running GNU/Linux. Transactions in GIS, 8(2):225-233, April 2004.
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