Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Recent comparison of desktop GIS and image processing capability?

[Tom Roche]

till.ad...@fossgis.de [1]
> http://gisgeography.com/qgis-arcgis-differences/

Thanks for that: quite a detailed comparison of ArcGIS and QGIS, at least, and 
also has some interesting comments and pointers to books. This particular 
document is also archiveable, so I saved the most recent version[2]. FWIW, the 
article ends by "netting out" thusly[2]:

> GIS really comes down to just 4 simple ideas: Create geographic data. Manage 
> it. Analyze it and… Display it on a map. These are the primordial functions 
> and are served well in both GIS software.

> You can’t go wrong with either GIS mapping software – QGIS or ArcGIS. 

> QGIS is free.

Note the (uncredited) authors hammer on ArcGIS about licensing, esp in their 
section#=7 (roughly a quarter of the way through the document), but they don't 
mention actual prices.

> It has multi-language support. It relies on volunteer efforts which is really 
> good. It has huge support on stack exchange. The more you work in QGIS, the 
> more hidden gems you find: interactive pivot tables with GroupStats, adding 
> CSVs with simplicity and the stunning cartographical symobology and labeling 
> options.

> ArcGIS is one of the best GIS investments you could ever make. It’s 
> expandable. It has the biggest user community to find answers. It provides 
> tutorials with sample data for you to get hands-on experience. Model builder 
> and automation are top caliber. The specialty software in ArcGIS extension is 
> also a thing of beauty.

> In the crudest terms, we’d rank it like this: ArcView < ArcEditor < QGIS < 
> ArcInfo. ArcInfo is the victor. We've cut through the clutter and made ArcGIS 
> and QGIS simpler for you. Now it's your turn. Where does ArcGIS triumph? 
> Where does QGIS have an edge?

IMHO we/OSGeo/FOSS4G should be using these sorts of documents as a guide toward 
managing/investing development and marketing efforts; YMMV.

HTH, Tom Roche 

[1]: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2016-May/016079.html
[2]: 
http://web.archive.org/web/20160514030950/http://gisgeography.com/qgis-arcgis-differences/
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Incubation, osgeo-EU and FOSS4G

[Jody Garnett]

Going to return to one of your points on the discussion list, since it is
an excellent idea.

OSGEO(EU)


OSGeo is a bit more than an international organization, and a lot more than
just an American not-for-profit. It is our plan as a community to foster
regional representation with local chapters. If a european local chapter
forms, and incorporates in order to be more effective at outreach in the
region - that is absolutely great.

The second (vertical) part of our plan involves teaming up with like minded
organizations/initiatives. If helping the EU can be better done with an
organization on the ground in Europe so much the better (and I am glad we
have that flexibility - indeed it is a reason why we have that flexibility).

We want to bring open source to those that can benefit and participate. By
doing our best as a community to dress up in the appropriate clothes/legal
structure we can better focus on the message of freedom (and not the
messenger which is a distraction).
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G

[Marc Vloemans]

Picking up on the thread of Steven's list of items/solutions to look into 
(please, provide items 7, 8 etc if other perspectives could reap solutions).
and hopefully providing people additional arguments to convince 
partners, spouses, parents, bosses and bank managers that coming to Bonn this 
year is 'cheap' ;-)
...see brainstorm per item below:

1. Can we unbundle some elements of the conference to help those on low income? 
Gala event, catering, anything else?

MV; this will certainly help to save and should be done to some degree. Whether 
it significantly weighs up to costs for travel, lodging etc I don't know. 
For the LOC this would mean higher administrative overhead; the more 
differentiation in attendance, the more planning is needed. 
Professional conf organisers will certainly charge extra and volunteers for 
this type of work are very scarce. Still, some price and attendance 
differentiation (above presently in place) may reap extra attendants (but 
baseline to be established). 

2. Should we encourage lower cost venue options from host cities bidding for 
2018 etc

MV; Venue cost for 800+ attendees tends to be directly related to size and 
importance of the city and country. 

More sophisticated and developed host countries tend to have already a certain 
amount of FOSS(GIS) users as critical mass and some sort of local chapter to 
form the necessary LOC.
(We are not GeoSpatialWorld Forum that flies in a LOC from India and is heavily 
sponsored)

This may be a rule of thumb, but hopefully future LOC's with their more 
intimate knowledge of the local situation prove me wrong. 

3. Should we focus more on costs of travel and accommodation when selecting 
host cities?

MV; although hotel prices are directly correlated to the popularity of their 
cities, larger cities offer a wider bandwidth of lodging prices and higher 
amount of available beds in a certain price range. And renting an appartement 
with a group is often the cheapest option, but not that often done... Large 
popular cities (with a plethora of AirBnB, FamilyBnB, GayBnB, GeekBnB, 
HipsterBnB etc etc) do have a considerable edge here ;-)

Lower popularity means smaller size of the city, thus more likely it is that no 
or just indirect flights go there (extra flight/travel costs) or only one or 
two airlines travel there (with illegal higher price agreement:-( 

4. Can we come up with an OSGeo policy on subsidising people who want to 
attend? How would we select? A full subsidy for someone attending FOSS4G 
including travel, accommodation, delegate fees, workshops, and living expenses 
could easily run between €1500 and €2500 depending on the location and an 
individual’s travel costs. That means finding between €60k and €100k to fund 5% 
of the attendees at a FOSS4G. Is that achievable?

MV; in Western Hemisphere political/economical/societal/other outreach 
organisations (we are tech-variety) usually reimburse travel costs upon arrival 
against receipt with a predetermined maximum, for attendees who come from Third 
World countries or can show a valid student pass or whatever sympathy-policy is 
in place. Accommodation is usually arranged via couch-surfing with 
organisers/other visitors or free(gratis) rooms arranged as part of local 
hotel-deals/block-bookings.

So first we (Board, officers, the cook/wife/lover - thanks Peter Greenaway - 
and/or whoever has a say) would have to determine what OSGeo sees as its 
strategy regarding Outreach: where do we see people disadvantaged (may I 
once more kindly refer to the concept Marketing Plan in the wiki 
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Talk:Marketing_Committee for all to comment on and 
add to ;-

By the way; Fraud is to be expected but cannot really be countered only 
diminished. So should not stop us pursuing this option. 

5. Is it better to leave the successful global event as it is, up till now we 
have had strong attendances each year? We could instead encourage FOSS4G 
regional events (in regions that are not hosting the global event) that were 
designed and targeted to be a smaller scale and more affordable?

MV; +1 eg comparable to LocationTech Tour: single format, reusable items, 
continuity of officers etc and in collaboration with local/ regional (Hi, 
OSGeo.eu ;-) chapters.

6. Are we looking at the wrong side of this by focussing on the cost of 
attending an event? 

MV;
Let's think more in quantifiable benefit terms. And turn it into a (reusable 
format for the wiki) business case: cost versus financial benefit. If 
attendants from companies join code sprints this should count as 
billable/development/product development/engineering hours, that needed to be 
spend in office-time anyway. Combined with the personal training budget that 
employees usually have a right to, this adds up to at least the amount of the 
conference attendance (incl all costs).
I have done this calculation for the Bolzano code sprints in the past and it 
works out!

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] How big is the Open Source Geo developer and consultancy community?

[Steven Feldman]

I have updated the survey to take account of feedback from several people.

The provision of employee numbers and revenues are optional and in bands rather 
than seeking precise information.
Options added for non monetary contributions

Survey at 
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1xZaq6Z4NMOuXm6jOEifScBS6qW0FSMt47AKb3Fm6JmA/edit?usp=sharing
 

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> On 7 May 2016, at 15:26, Dave McIlhagga  wrote:
> 
> Hi Steven,
> 
> Re. The Supply side - I'd suggest you include anyone who actively contributes 
> effort to the development of OS software regardless of how they monetize the 
> activity.
> 
> For instance, if you don't include companies working on the software that 
> then gets monetized via proprietary solutions and commercial packaging, you 
> would be missing what I expect are the silent majority of OS software 
> contributors. It would also make your survey more black and white in terms of 
> whether one qualifies as being part of the open source economics. Essentially 
> if you contribute you're in.
> 
> Dave
> 
> Sent from mobile
> dmcilha...@mapsherpa.com 
> 
> On May 7, 2016, at 2:53 AM, Steven Feldman  > wrote:
> 
>> Apologies, the link to my explanatory blog post was wrong. Should be 
>> http://knowwhereconsulting.co.uk/blog/size-matters/ 
>> 
>> 
>> Steven 
>> 
>> On 6 May 2016, at 19:09, Steven Feldman > > wrote:
>> 
>>> I have wanted to try to pull together some very basic economic numbers 
>>> about open source geo for a while now. Then when I got the good news that 
>>> my talk on “There is no such thing as a free lunch” had been accepted for 
>>> FOSS4G 2016, I decided to have a crack at crowdsourcing some numbers which 
>>> I hope to include in my talk in August. There are two elements to this 
>>> exercise
>>> Supply – How big is the business of Open Source Geo? i.e the companies and 
>>> full time or near to fully time consultants working in  this space
>>> Usage – How much Open Source Geo software is deployed and what value does 
>>> it create or displace?
>>> At the moment I am focussing on the supply side because it feels like a 
>>> more manageable task, perhaps some others will step up and offer to help 
>>> estimate the usage side.
>>> 
>>> This survey aims to gather some basic stats on companies (from one man 
>>> bands to very large companies) whose activities are based on the provision 
>>> of development and services in Open Source Geo (either wholly or a 
>>> significant part). Even though revenue and employee numbers will often be 
>>> available from public sources, I will only present the results in 
>>> aggregated formats to ensure that individual company info cannot be derived 
>>> from my presentation. If you are uncertain about providing information to 
>>> this survey please check with a senior manager within your organisation 
>>> before responding.
>>> 
>>> So why should you help me to make an estimate of the size of the Open 
>>> Source Geo business? I think that size does matter when you are in the 
>>> software business, potential users often gain confidence from larger 
>>> numbers – more users, a larger industry with more employees and more 
>>> revenues – why would this not be the case for Open Source Geo when we are  
>>> frequently facing FUD merchants. I believe that collating some economic 
>>> data on the Open Source Geo business can help all of us to respond better 
>>> when confronted with questions about the commercial sustainability of our 
>>> community.
>>> 
>>> There is a bit more info about the survey at 
>>> http://knowwhereconsulting.co.uk/size-matters 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> The survey is at 
>>> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1xZaq6Z4NMOuXm6jOEifScBS6qW0FSMt47AKb3Fm6JmA/edit?usp=sharing
>>>  
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks for any help you can offer to further publicise this survey
>>> 
>>> Cheers
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>>> 
>>> 
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Upper Midwest Geospatial Conference May 25-26

[David William Bitner]

Hey any folks in the upper midwest,

Just want to remind you all about the Upper Midwest Geospatial Conference
coming up really soon May 25-26.

While it's not a dedicated open source event, there are many open source
workshops and presentations including FREE GeoMoose and CartoDB workshops.

Cost for full registration is only $185 with a $50 student rate making this
a great event for folks in the region who may have difficulty getting to
other events.

This conference is a being put on as a collaboration of the main GIS
professional associations in Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota along with the
non-profits GITA, ASPRS, and SharedGeo (who provided an invaluable role in
the production of FOSS4GNA 2013).

Keynotes include Trevor Taylor of the OGC, Darryl Murdock from the US
Geospatial Intelligence Foundation, and Chris Diller of the National States
Geographic Information Council.

Aside from Open Source there are a number of presentations on:

   - Geodesy with many presentations from the National Geodetic Survey
   - Open Data initiatives particularly coming out of state and regional
   initiatives
   - UAV's/Drones
   - Visualization
   - Mobile Data
   - The Cloud
   - LiDAR

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G

[Steven Feldman]

Jonathan

We hosted FOSS4G 2013 at the university of Nottingham. We were offered a very 
good deal from them but it was far from free, universities in the UK and 
elsewhere are encouraged to find ways to make more use of their facilities to 
generate additional income. We did get all of the workshop facilities including 
computers at no extra charge.

We can reduce the cost of an event by finding lower cost facilities (not that 
easy), perhaps spreading the event across multiple sites and not having the 
space for plenaries and networking, providing cheaper food (or even no food at 
all), excluding the party from the overall ticket (or not bothering to host a 
gala event). There would still be a cost though, the question becomes how much 
of that cost you charge to delegates and whether a variable pricing model can 
be applied to subsidise some delegates (although I fear any policy on 
concessionary pricing will generate a lot of debate around edge cases.

The only way that you can make an event free is to raise a lot more sponsorship 
(something of the order of 3 or 4 times the levels we have achieved or even 
more) and my experience of 2013 and being the financial rep to the 2016 team is 
that there is not currently sufficient appetite amongst sponsors to generate 
that level of funding. 

The t-shirts and pens and stuff that delegates get given is already funded by 
the sponsors, it does not come out of ticket prices.

You and several others have pointed out that the costs of attending a FOSS4G 
event are much greater than delegate fees (transport, accommodation and 
opportunity costs of the time off work). There are usually some options to 
reduce those costs but they can’t be eliminated.

FOSS4G generates a modest surplus for OSGeo (which is a large part of OSGeo’s 
income) - that surplus is used to fund code sprints, outreach, OSGeo Live 
dvd’s, student bursaries at events, Geo4All awards and to provide the financial 
guarantee that a conference organising team needs to put on the next FOSS4G 
(unless they are wiling to accept personal liability, which I believe would be 
an unacceptable imposition on our volunteers)

The bottom line is that whatever tweaks we make to the scope of a FOSS4G the 
costs are going to be within 10 or 15% of the current all in costs of 
conference fee, travel and accommodation. That prompts a few thoughts/questions:

1. Can we unbundle some elements of the conference to help those on low income? 
Gala event, catering, anything else?
2. Should we encourage lower cost venue options from host cities bidding for 
2018 etc
3. Should we focus more on costs of travel and accommodation when selecting 
host cities?
4. Can we come up with an OSGeo policy on subsidising people who want to 
attend? How would we select? A full subsidy for someone attending FOSS4G 
including travel, accommodation, delegate fees, workshops, and living expenses 
could easily run between €1500 and €2500 depending on the location and an 
individual’s travel costs. That means finding between €60k and €100k to fund 5% 
of the attendees at a FOSS4G. Is that achievable?
5. Is it better to leave the successful global event as it is, up till now we 
have had strong attendances each year? We could instead encourage FOSS4G 
regional events (in regions that are not hosting the global event) that were 
designed and targeted to be a smaller scale and more affordable?
6. Are we looking at the wrong side of this by focussing on the cost of 
attending an event? 

This discussion is very well timed as we will be starting the call for FOSS4G 
2018 in September and that event will be a ‘rest of world’ which may mean 
higher travel costs for delegates from NA and Europe and may provide some 
opportunities for a different approach to grow the FOSS4G community within the 
region. If we want them to work to a different set of parameters we need to 
agree those parameters before we start the process.

May the FOSS be with you #mtfbwy
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> On 12 May 2016, at 22:56, Jonathan  wrote:
> 
> Hi Till,
> On the issue of conferences, I'd like to chip in. I've never organised one, 
> but my other half has so I know how much work they are, so plenty of respect 
> for the effort you've both put into them.
> 
> I suppose I'd ask two questions of any given element of a conference - Is it 
> necessary, and how much should it cost? Conference centres are very 
> expensive, this much is clear, but does FOSS4G really need a single space 
> that can handle all of its delegates at once for the plenaries? How much does 
> that add to the cost? Would universities be cheaper as hosts? They certainly 
> have the facilities, including wi-fi, canteens, and (potentially) cheap 
> accommodation; I note that the FOSDEM conference ( > 5000 delegates for all 
> of whom it is free) is hosted yearly at a university in Brussels.
> 
> What about the "freebies" that are included in the welcome pack - conference 
> 

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Incubation, osgeo-EU and FOSS4G

[Dirk Frigne]

Maxi,

> BUSINESS AND OSGEO(EU)
I think the mail of Jeroen is a good testimonial, many small business
owners can subscribe.

> OSGeo is an organisation of people. Not of sectors or groups or parties.
> Of course people belong to categories and this tend to influence the way
> they see the world. For this reason people tend to contribute to the
> community for their competence and interest within committees or working
> groups. 
The advantage of being an organisation of people, is that we can come up
for our individual values. Discuss them and act upon them. Together we
are able to change the world! The organisations we are all individually
part of will follow, so I do not agree with your next statement:

It is not the mandate of OSGeo making lobbies or acquire
> mandates.

I think it is our duty to act as an organisation and defend the values
we stand for, which are described here:

 To me OSGeo should get together great projects and people to
> offer the world the possibility of advance and improve the life of
> people. I know It is a bit exaggerated but when i think of open source i
> see it as a mean of equity: like making  accessible food and sanitation
> and drinking water and medicine to everyone in the world. Making tools
> for a better governance available to all.
> OSGeo is about mutually sharing experiences, ideas, solutions not
> building business. For this LocationTech which is a community of
> companies / entities I understood is more suited.
> So my vision is OSGeo focused on people not on companies or groups.



> Splitting the community is not an advancement but a loss of value.

I don't follow your statement that delegating work to (f.i. a marketing
committee) or the local chapter FOSGIS focussing on the german language
and regional activities, is splitting up the community, in the contrary.
So will a local chapter for NA or for EU not be a loss of value, but a
way to reach out to these parties which are better addressed by these
local initiatives.

In my vision, if we respect the values of OSGeo as an inclusive
organisation, we should enlarge our community with people with other
skills than software development skills and we should also set up and
maintain relations with other organisations, so we can come up for the
values we stand for and create a stronger OSGeo.


> 
> FOSS4G CONFERENCES
I fully subscribe the idea to go for low subscription fee's.
I think it is a great accomplishment if the local chapters could
organise their FOSS4G conference for free, as we did in Belgium last year.

Thanks to the sponsors!

my 2€c

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> MAY THE FOSS BE WITH YOU !
And with you
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Recent comparison of desktop GIS and image processing capability?

[till . adams]

already some days ago, but here is at least a comparison between AG and 
QG:


http://gisgeography.com/qgis-arcgis-differences/


Till


Am 2016-05-13 08:08, schrieb Paolo Cavallini:

Il 12/05/2016 23:57, Bruce Bannerman ha scritto:
Has anyone done a recent comparison of desktop GIS and image 
processing

capability?

It would be interesting to see where we stand now with FOSS4G 
software

functionality.

It appears that this is what ESRI is using to compare the 
functionality

of their various license levels:


https://esriaustralia.com.au/u/lib/cms/arcgis1021-desktop-functionality-matrix.pdf

Is there something comparable (that also refers to additional 
capability

that is offered via OS?


Hi Bruce,
previous attempts proved difficult, as a proper comparison involves a
lot of work. The ESRI document seems a good starting point. Unsure we
would be allowed to reuse it.
Would you be willing to help filling up the table for some free GIS?
All the best.


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] Incubation, osgeo-EU and FOSS4G

[Dirk Frigne]

"We should welcome business involvement not feel threatened by it"

We should welcome all the involvement as we can get. And business is one
of the elements to grow a society.

D. :-)

On 12-05-16 18:56, Steven Feldman wrote:
> Brilliantly expressed Jeroen, thank you
> 
> Building businesses around OSGeo is a sign of our success and our future 
> sustainability. We should welcome business involvement not feel threatened by 
> it.
> __
> Steven
> 
> 
>> On 12 May 2016, at 08:17, Jeroen Ticheler  wrote:
>>
>> Hi Max,
>> Good to have a summarized discussion about what OSGeo is. Let me only react 
>> on the business side you discussed. I absolutely disagree with what you are 
>> saying ;-) I'll explain:
>>
>> People can only contribute voluntary (or professional) time if at some point 
>> they earn a salary that pays their bills. And if businesses didn't flourish, 
>> there wouldn't be governments, universities etcetera because there wouldn't 
>> be money for governments to fund itself nor academia. I've been a government 
>> employee for many years and I'm convinced governments and academia are 
>> indispensable in a well developed society. Some things are better done there 
>> than in business. BUT, many other things are better done in business. I 
>> often see a lot of distrust from the public sector towards the business 
>> sector, including in your expressed view. This is harmful to OSGeo! If I can 
>> send my whole company to FOSS4G to present our work, provide free workshops, 
>> sponsor AND learn this is a highly valuable thing in my opinion. It is ALL 
>> about individuals contributing and learning and sharing knowledge equally. 
>>
>> I have spend many years in Africa, both as a child and as an adult. As a kid 
>> I've even travelled on food trucks delivering aid in refugee camps. I don't 
>> need many words to describe the impression that made on me: people (Tuaregs 
>> in my case) that lost their cattle and thus their work, suffered deeply, but 
>> still had their pride and served us tea on the edge of the desert. They had 
>> nowhere to go and were forced to abandon their nomad lifestyle to settle as 
>> farmers on land that was unsuitable for agriculture. You can't sink much 
>> further in life. 
>> This led me to work at the UN and then change to business because I thinks 
>> that's where the real difference can be made if done right. One of my main 
>> objectives is to develop knowledge that is non-exclusive and also helps 
>> those living in less favorable economic conditions. Technology won't be of 
>> much help to those Tuaregs, but I'm always looking at opportunities to get 
>> some company kickstarted there (hopefully under the GeoCat umbrella) so 
>> solid commercial activity can be developed locally. And for that, I won't 
>> ignore the commercial interests I have because I'm convinced in doing so 
>> that the development of a local company has the largest chance of success. 
>> And thus this company can contribute to the lives of its employees and pay 
>> (the least possible, but proper amount of) taxes to its government. When 
>> successful, also those employees could attend a local or global OSGeo event. 
>> Every successful company can contribute significantly to improving the lives 
>> of individuals. And
  open sou
rce is a great vehicle for this. FOSS4G and OSGeo are great vehicles for this 
too. Companies must be able to benefit from them, because it is the people in 
those companies and their families that benefit. And it is government and 
academia that can then pay salaries to you.
>>
>> NEVER IGNORE COMPANIES AGAIN IN OSGEO OR FOSS4G! THEY ARE NOT A THREAT, THEY 
>> ARE A NECESSITY.  
>>
>> Warm hearted greetings,
>> Jeroen
>>
>>> Op 11 mei 2016 om 11:01 heeft massimiliano cannata 
>>>  het volgende geschreven:
>>>
>>> BUSINESS AND OSGEO(EU)
>>> OSGeo is an organisation of people. Not of sectors or groups or parties. Of 
>>> course people belong to categories and this tend to influence the way they 
>>> see the world. For this reason people tend to contribute to the community 
>>> for their competence and interest within committees or working groups. It 
>>> is not the mandate of OSGeo making lobbies or acquire mandates. To me OSGeo 
>>> should get together great projects and people to offer the world the 
>>> possibility of advance and improve the life of people. I know It is a bit 
>>> exaggerated but when i think of open source i see it as a mean of equity: 
>>> like making  accessible food and sanitation and drinking water and medicine 
>>> to everyone in the world. Making tools for a better governance available to 
>>> all.
>>> OSGeo is about mutually sharing experiences, ideas, solutions not building 
>>> business. For this LocationTech which is a community of companies / 
>>> entities I understood is more suited.
>>> So my vision is OSGeo focused on people not on companies or groups. 
>>> Splitting the 

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Recent comparison of desktop GIS and image processing capability?

[Paolo Cavallini]

Il 12/05/2016 23:57, Bruce Bannerman ha scritto:
> Has anyone done a recent comparison of desktop GIS and image processing
> capability?
> 
> It would be interesting to see where we stand now with FOSS4G software
> functionality.
> 
> It appears that this is what ESRI is using to compare the functionality
> of their various license levels:
> 
> https://esriaustralia.com.au/u/lib/cms/arcgis1021-desktop-functionality-matrix.pdf
> 
> Is there something comparable (that also refers to additional capability
> that is offered via OS?

Hi Bruce,
previous attempts proved difficult, as a proper comparison involves a
lot of work. The ESRI document seems a good starting point. Unsure we
would be allowed to reuse it.
Would you be willing to help filling up the table for some free GIS?
All the best.

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QGIS & PostGIS courses: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html
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