Dear mitras,, HI,, nice to see some nepali doing with GIS.. well i am also nepali,, Basically i am Agriculture graduate from TU. my major is Land Resource Management (speciality Environmental Land Chemistry) I am about to finish MS (wel,, only thesis defense left) at Ghent university, belgium. But for my Doctorate,, i am doing in GIS, at the university of Florida.. Well,, i was supposed to start from AUgust 22 (deadline of admission crossed) but due to some family problem,, i managed to differ the admission and assistantship for January intake. Now i want to visit homeland and make some time with family. Still wondering of difficulties with this sub,, i worked with Idrisi in Belgium,, but at Florida i gotta with Arc Info (gotta work hard in the beginning) Its so nice and cozy to see neps colleageus with this subject. Keep it up hai... Sanjay