Re:Programmers' tools, not finished applications (Score 2, Interesting)

There are a number of recent efforts in the exploratory spatial data analysis real that attempt to deliver on the "end user" side of things, for example:

Geoda http://sal.agecon.uiuc.edu/geoda_main.php

STARS http://stars-py.sf.net

Choro http://choroware.sourceforge.net/