On 02/27/2012 09:10 AM, David Speyer wrote: > Thanks for getting back to me Alister! > > Now I have more specific questions for the group: > > 1) What map formats are supported? In particular are TAB files supported? > Anything supported by GDAL/OGR, www.gdal.org
> 2) Can QGIS be used as a Control - Is there an existing tool that can > easily be wrapped into a .Net C# Windows Control? (The equivalent of > MapInfo Extreme). > Yes, but only C++ and python > 3) Can a floor plan jpg file be layered over a blank map control and then > registered via TAB file using minimally three points on the map with Latitude > and Longitude? Then with mouse click know all the other coordinates on the > map? Is this a simple process? (Again this can be easily done with MapInfo > Extreme). Yes, georegistration tool is built in. > > 4) Web App and Stand Alone Support? > There is work on Web Client to correspond with QGIS Server. Desktop standalone is the primary mechanism for all current deployments. > 5) Has Layering - Ability to draw several layers of routes and various > symbols with different colors onto to the displayed map - programmatically > controlled? Legend? (Again using as .Net Control). > Yes, but again only C++ and python > 6) Access to Maps (can you get from web database?) > Yes, WMS, WFS, Tiles, Postgis, etc.. are all supported. > 7) Report Generation Capabilities: If we were to wrap QGIS, is there a > wide variety of reports that can be generated (i.e. letting the end user > create custom map-based reports)? > Only a few such plugins exist but could be easy to write. I think you are more likely to want to look at SharpMap and MapWindow which are .net applications and tools under open source licenses. Thanks, Alex > -----Original Message----- > From: qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org > [mailto:qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Alister Hood > Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 9:10 PM > To: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org > Subject: RE: [Qgis-user] New to QGIS, Best solution? > > Hi David, > It really depends on: > - what you need to do, and > - what addons you would have for MapInfo or ArcGIS. > > I don't do a lot of GIS work, and I have no experience with ArcGIS, but I do > have MapInfo. > I gather some features of MapInfo are supposed to be quite good for things > like inputting and managing data, which is why it has been quite popular in > local government (at least in NZ and Australia). > As I see it MapInfo's main downsides are: > 1) It isn't very powerful - you need to buy all sorts of addons if you really > want to do much in it. (I guess with QGIS you also need to use something > like GRASS for some things. The trouble with MapInfo is that it seems like > you're not really getting anything for your dollar.) If some of the major > addons were included with MapInfo then it would be a lot easier to understand > why people buy it. > 2) In some respects e.g. map-making it is very user-unfriendly. Especially > the problems with the way its layout windows are connected to map windows. > And QGIS is just generally much nicer to use than MapInfo. > 3) It doesn't handle data in all sorts of different formats nicely like QGIS > does. > > I generally don't even think about using MapInfo these days - I haven't > bothered to install the last couple of updates. And MapInfo isn't going > anywhere fast - like someone mentioned in the link below, they seem to put > all their effort into marketing, while the software stays stuck in the mid > '90s, with little indication that it will ever really improve. > The one MapInfo feature that I currently miss in QGIS is the ability to > perform operations in the Object menu like "Split" on selected features - > ftools in QGIS only operates with whole layers. > > I guess MapInfo is _a little_ less buggy than QGIS, but not as much as I'd > expect, especially given that it doesn't really seem to do much, and there is > so little change in each release. > > You might be interested in some of the discussion at > http://woostuff.wordpress.com/2011/07/07/browser-wars-qgis-vs-mapinfo-11/ > > But I'm not sure how relevant this all is to you - it sounds like you are > thinking of building some sort of standalone application or web-based > solution. How would that work with .Net and QGIS? > If you're integrating with .NET I imagine you should check out Mapwindow. > Have you? > Mapwindow is quite nice, but it generally* doesn't seem to be as powerful or > user-friendly as QGIS. > > *For some specific things there are very good plugins for Mapwindow that > aren't available for QGIS. > > Regards, > Alister > > >> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:16:01 +0000 >> From: David Speyer <david.spe...@pctel.com> >> Subject: [Qgis-user] New to QGIS, Best solution? >> To: "Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org" <Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org> >> Message-ID: >> >> <E569CBF1CCBAED43B04EC1569C80777F1EDCB3@mbx025-w1-ca-1.exch025.domain.l >> ocal> >> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >> >> Hello - >> >> I am still in the middle of evaluating various map solutions and would find >> it *very* helpful if anyone could compare the >> features/functionality/reliability of Qgis to MapInfo Pro or ArcGIS or even >> Google Maps APIs. I'd be integrating this with Microsoft based UIs (.Net). >> We are already using MapInfo with MapExtreme (a version that is a few >> versions old). >> >> Thanks! >> David. > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. > For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com > ______________________________________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
