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Being both a GIS head and a Mac aficionado, I’m very interested to hear of the release of GrassPro, which looks to be a complete desktop GIS for Macintosh and includes UMN Mapserver for web publishing. What a great looking application!

Of course, as I’m also an Open Source enthusiast, I’d probably just as soon opt to use Lorenzo Moretti’s GRASS for OSX implementation and install Mapserver independently. In this I see at least two advantages:

1. There is a small fee for GrassPro – though compared to the licensing fees for anything from ESRI, it’s nothing;
2. More importantly, compiling and installing Mapserver yourself ensures you have all the libraries you’ll need and none that you don’t .

Hopefully I’ll find an excuse to make use of these soon!

_{Thanks to The Map Room for the info and links.}