On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 20:42 -0600, Farley Klotz wrote:
> 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.
> 

Completely agree, and there's not many business use cases I've come
across that don't ask for carto quality printed output (or close to it).

> One suggestion might be to generate a plugin to Inkscape (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.
> 
That would also be my first instinctive choice, but then I'm not the one
with the skills to implement it.

Tim Bowden

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> 
> 
> 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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