If you've ever used GRASS GIS, you know it's one of the most powerful spatial analysis platforms ever built. Decades of algorithms, impeccable accuracy, a passionate community. You also know that getting it installed, configured, and running on a new machine can be a bit of an adventure — and sharing your work with a colleague who doesn't have GRASS set up? That's a whole afternoon gone.

FastGIS started as a personal itch-scratcher for exactly that problem.