Cameron, I'm curious how you feel manifold compares to mapinfo. I use mapinfo to do our fiber plans, mainly just drawing lines/points/text on aerial photo and parcel data layers and exporting to PDF via layout one sheet at a time. It's slow and cumbersome, but it's paid for and I know it. Would Manifold give me the same abilities and be faster/easier? Thanks for your input!
On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 8:36 PM Cameron Crum <cc...@murcevilo.com> wrote: > > I second Brian's recommendations on QGIS and Manifold. If you want really > powerful GIS functions, Manifold is the best system, hands down. I would > never use Arc or MapInfo again after using manifold and I used to be a > MapInfo trainer. Both QGIS and Manifold can link to external SQL DBs so you > could probably build layers of customer point data with pop-up labels that > contain customer info or create thematic maps based on certain values, etc, > if you are looking for quick visuals. > > On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 6:31 PM Steve Jones <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> i use qgis and love it, its dolt friendly and will even render. albeit >> slowly on my laptop >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 5:58 PM Chuck McCown via AF <af@af.afmug.com> wrote: >>> >>> Are there samples/examples that will help me not have to learn too much? >>> Like a map with data that I can splice in my map and data. I am a lazy man. >>> >>> From: Forrest Christian (List Account) >>> Sent: Monday, February 7, 2022 4:54 PM >>> To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group >>> Cc: Chuck McCown >>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] GIS >>> >>> I use qgis (open source). A bit of a learning curve but it's amazingly >>> functional. >>> >>> There is also manifold which is dirt cheap as far as GIS is concerned. >>> >>> On Mon, Feb 7, 2022, 4:44 PM Chuck McCown via AF <af@af.afmug.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Anyone here use GIS? Thinking of a blend of a map and customer info. Too >>>> cheap for ESRI. Are there alternates? >>>> -- >>>> AF mailing list >>>> AF@af.afmug.com >>>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>> >>> -- >>> AF mailing list >>> AF@af.afmug.com >>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> AF@af.afmug.com >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
