On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Charlie Schweik <cschw...@pubpol.umass.edu> wrote: > I stumbled across this article today and thought others might be interested > to know it exists. The citation is: > > Francis P. Donnelly, (2010) "Evaluating open source GIS for libraries", > Library Hi Tech, Vol. 28 Iss: 1, pp.131 - 151
Stefan commented a bit on this in the Edu list - esp. to keep in mind that the study is based on the state of 2008: On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 12:13 AM, Stefan Steiniger <sst...@geo.uzh.ch> wrote: > Hei all, > > I just read the article below and found it really interesting. It compares > uDig, MapWindow, gvSIG, GRASS, QGIS, OpenJUMP with ArcGIS, having a focus on > basic use (i.e. creating a thematic map from existing data: > > http://gothos.info/resource_files/fpd_libhitech_foss_gis_march2010.pdf > > Title: Evaluating open source GIS for libraries > Author(s): Francis P. Donnelly > Journal: Library Hi Tech > Year: 2010 Volume: 28 Issue: 1 Page: 131 – 151 > ISSN: 0737-8831 > DOI: 10.1108/07378831011026742 > Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited > > I think the article shows quite well where is still room for improvements to > be more attractive to GIS beginners, or people from other (non-earth) > sciences. > > Though.. some of the issues may be resolved by now as I think he did the > evaluation in 2008 - see his blog entry: > http://gothos.info/?p=458 > > cheers, > stefan > _______________________________________________ > Edu_discuss mailing list > edu_disc...@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/edu_discuss So some things may look better nowadays :) Markus _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss