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The image above is a model of the <b>cavor</b>ite space ship from
H. G. Wells' "First Men in the Moon". Other than that, it has nothing
to do with this project.

Cavor serves as the basis for applications that combine spatial or graphic information with an attribute database, including GIS, CAD, and CASE tools. The first, simple, application is CAVORView (CVV, formerly Cavor Vector Viewer).


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News: May 2004

Starting looking at Qt as the primary widget set for GUIs, it turns out to have a lot of advantages. Some minor architectural changes were needed but in many respects these are improvements. A Qt version of CAVORView (Cavor Vector Viewer) has a lot of added functionality. To be released shortly -- still undergoing some testing to ensure that the old Qt-free version works.

December, 2003

Cavor 0.3.0 in pre-release. The CVS repository has been revised, many filenames changed (mostly to a consistent .cpp extension for C++ files, vs the odd mix of .cpp, .C, and so on before). The build system is now based around autoconf so a "./configure; make" should work (although it needs fine-tuning for non-Linux systems, some testing has been done on FreeBSD and Solaris x86). A 0.3 tarball should be available shortly, still a few details to finish up.

What is CAVOR?

CAVOR is an engine for building applications that involve modeling and retrieving graphical and textual data. Examples of such applications include GIS (geographic information systems), mapping programs, CAD (computer aided design/drafting), as well as less-obvious applications as project management (consider PERT charts, etc), CASE (computer aided software engineering) tools (DFDs, ERDs, etc.), and probably others that haven't even occurred to me.

Some info about Cavor can be found in this introductory document.

(The Cavor project is hosted at SourceForge)

See also the Frequently Asked Questions page. Also, consider subscribing to the cavor-devel mailing list, even if its only to kibbitz.

RELATED INFO For those interested in the GIS side, there's some stuff here related to Bruce Peren's US Map project (see the mailing list), ie a simple viewer and a couple of data files, are in the file mapstuff.tgz, there's also a README file.