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Epona is the Gaulish goddess of horses and riders — the one deity the Roman cavalry adopted wholesale and carried across the empire. Protector of anyone on the move.
It seemed like the right name for the thing in your tank bag.
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.