In my opinion, Cartographic output has been the limiting factor for moving
completely to Open Source GIS.  Data storage, management, manipulation, they
are all there, but quality cartographic output I have not seen.

One suggestion might be to generate a plugin to Inkscape
<http://www.inkscape.org/>(open source vector drawing package) which places
a dynamic map window into a drawing file, and also has some dynamic legend,
scale bar, north arrow, etc controls.




On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 2:55 AM, Raphaël Jacquot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 15:15 -0700, percy wrote:
>
> > This year, after I gave out the first assignment, I decided to try to do
> > it myself using only FOSS software.
> > Fired up QGIS, no spatial join. The only way to move forward was to fire
> > up PostGIS, command line.
> > That was the end of the experiment in terms of trying to rewrite the
> > assignment using opensource desktop gis.
> > :-(
> > Percy
>
> did you contact the people that do qgis and post a feature request ?
>
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