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 > > > > 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 ? > > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking > > > > > -- > ----- > Farley Klotz > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
