Stephen,
There are 2 Open Source GIS comparison tables that I'm aware of, and
linked from our Case Studies wiki:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Case_Studies#Web_Client_Comparison
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Case_Studies#Review_of_Open_Source_Desktop_Clients
If people know of other comparisons, please link to them from this wiki.
On 03/02/11 01:15, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
On 2/2/2011 5:14 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
Below, Frank has done a great job asking the exact sort of question that
new GIS users ask, and which we as an OSGeo community should address to
attract new users.
I think that it would be helpful to identify gaps also, for two reasons:
1. if someone is planning to migrate from say ArcMap to OSS, know the
pain points and gaps will make it easy fro them to decide if their use
case makes sense of not to convert now or not. Knowing what to expect
up front lets them plan better and design new processes to work around
those issues.
2. if we as a community have a clear idea of the gaps and pain points
then it gives us a check list if high value projects that we might
want to work into our projects. While I suspect most projects maintain
some kind of wish list, I do not think there is a high level document
like this FAQ that covers this. Maybe it is as simple as creating
additional entries like "How to you XXX with Open Source GIS?" which
identify gaps and pain points also.
I think we are all about transparency, and this would help, IMHO.
ATB,
-Steve W
What has been done so far toward building a FAQ on "How to you XXX with
Open Source GIS?"?
Frank wrote:
Not only am I new to the forum, but
I'm new to GIS work in general.
I downloaded the Live CD and installed it on a virtual machine and it's
working great. I'm trying to build a suite of GIS tools I can for the
various
tasks I have to do at work and it's great having so many products right
in front of me. It's highly quality work and I appreciate all the hard
work to pull it together.
What would be really helpful to me (and possibly other new-to-GIS folks
like myself) is a FAQ-type list of questions with app answers. For
example:
Do you want to edit shapefiles? Try xxx, yyy, zzz.
Do you want to style shapefiles? Try ...
Do you want to work exclusively with raster files?
Do you need to work simultaneously with raster and vector files?
Do you want to convert one file into one another format?
Do you want to convert raster to vector?
Vector to raster?
Vector to another vector?
etc.
If there were a couple dozen questions with short answers it would
really
supplement the disc quite well.
For instance, I'm trying to figure out how to convert a raster (binary
GRID) file into a shapefile. I dink around in the various programs
on the
CD, but I don't know if I just can't find the "convert raster to
vector"
option in a particular app or if it isn't there at all. A short little
Q&A text file would be nice to help at least focus my initial search
a little bit better. At the least I (hopefully) would be pointed to the
best choices for my purpose.
Hope this makes sense!
Frank
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