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Hi Andreas:
Thanks for your response.
I'm quite sure that for most regional councils here, DXF would not
be enough. The surveyors and planners that we work with all use
Autodesk products. All their work is delivered in dwg, and some do
not even know that there is such a thing as DXF.
I have not been following the Open Design Alliance lately, but
including that library QGIS would certainly be a quantum leap
forward. After Radim's success in crowd funding the implementation
of GRASS 7, your suggestion indeed sounds feasible.
Regards,
Micha
On 6/15/2015 10:28 AM, Andreas Neumann wrote:
Hi Micha,
That is interesting - we invested a lot in the DXF export
capabilities of QGIS. Once this is finished I am pretty sure we
will also look to improve the situation regarding the import.
Do you think import of DXF is enough or do we also need DWG
support? If so, the best bet would probably be the Teigha library
from the Open Design Alliance (https://www.opendesign.com/the_oda_platform/Teigha),
which isn't available for free - but it is the library most other
GIS (eg. ESRI, Intergraph) and CAD (eg. Bentley, Bricscad, etc.)
are using. We would have to pay a membership fee, but it allows us
to redistribute the library with the software. Membership in the
consortium is affordable in my opinion.
What are your thoughts on this? Would you also be available to
help with a crowd-funding effort? Do you see options besides
Teigha?
Andreas
On 15.06.2015 08:57, Micha Silver
wrote:
On 06/15/2015 09:23 AM, Bernhard
Ströbl wrote:
Hi
Joseph,
could you elaborate why "it would be unrealistic to say we
could ever be a 100% QGIS"? I am curious because I lost
contact with ESRI products a couple years ago.
From our point of view, we need support for dwg. That side of
vendor lock-in is, unfortunately, even stronger that the ties to
ESRI. So we stay with Arc* not because of the GIS capabilites,
but more or less only because of the ability to read Autocad
plans and surveys.
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