Hi Nelson,
if your boss is thinking that you're a magician, tell him that magicians
need the opportunity to buy magic components. I don't think that a
GRASS-RIM combination is the best tool available to make a user-friendly
GIS database for this kind of application. Over the last few months we
have been experimenting with MapInfo, which is not too expensive (we
payed around $1500), runs very nice on a PC under Windows and does all
the magic tricks you're asking with a simple set of dBase files and
imported DXF-layers. It performs all kinds of queries you can imagine on
your database, and even has some minor GIS-analysis capabilities; just
fine for people like your boss, I'd imagine. If you're interested, mail
me.
Adios,
Philip Verhagen
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