On 18 Apr 2008, at 23:15, percy wrote:
I think the key here is to discuss the Extensions to Arcview and Arcmap. Much of the base functionality can be covered by these FOSS desktop clients like gvSIG and QGIS and UDIG, but extensions like Spatial analyst and 3D analyst, for some of us, is where it becomes difficult to our work done using only FOSS.
+1. Talk of 'replacing ArcGIS' in broadbrush terms is IMO the wrong approach. Certainly much of the viewing and simple analytical tools can be replaced straight off by QGIS, more advanced stuff by GRASS, some by PostGIS/OGR/GDAL/Mapserver or a combination of all of these. There's no drop-in replacement for ArcGIS per-se but if not all, then most, of its functionality can be handled by FOSS. Maybe a functional- based ArcView replacement howto might be in order?
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