On 26.04.2008 08:44, Cameron Shorter wrote:
Ravi,
What us Open Source evangelists are missing is an honest comparison
between ESRI desktop applications and Open Source equivalents.
This has been done somewhat. You might find it interesting reading.
--Wolf
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Ravi,
What us Open Source evangelists are missing is an honest comparison
between ESRI desktop applications and Open Source equivalents.
What is it about ArcView and ArcGIS that people really like, listed
feature by feature in a table.
Then identify whether Open Source covers it and how.
Very
Hi,
this is the kind of question I face when in my lectures evangelising OS GIS.
ArcGIS has many tools, though some prefer to call it a deluge of tools, which
almost distance the user from understanding the concept of GIS.
Auto Complete Polygon:
In Qgis which is a very userfriendly OS GIS you ha
> > I agree with Paul, power without control doesn't lead anywhere. GRASS
> > is of huge power, but following my past commercial experiences, I
> >
>
> Hehe, didn't you just say "my past proprietary experiences"?
>
> Sorry to be dense and all that...
No worries, but I really meant: "my past comm
On 4/25/08, Arnulf Christl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Legacy GIS Architect
>
In the world of neogeography punks, this is a nice throwback to the future.
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On Fri, April 25, 2008 20:51, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 08:21:21PM +0200, Arnulf Christl wrote:
>
>> What was a Desktop GIS exactly? I only have a browser and for some
>> strange reason all that I do starts with an http://...
>
> A Desktop GIS is what you switch to when
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:55 PM, George R. C. Silva
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> One thing GIS OS software could have are better editing tools. I do miss
> them alot, and the one is ArcGIS are unbeatable (i dont know any O.S.
> software that have 'autocomplete polygon', tons of snapping optio
This is why I proposed
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Cartographic_Library
:)
Markus
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:30 PM, David William Bitner
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would agree with Paul. The biggest hole in the FOSS stack is in easy,
> high quality printed map production. This is the
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 08:21:21PM +0200, Arnulf Christl wrote:
> What was a Desktop GIS exactly? I only have a browser and for some strange
> reason all that I do starts with an http://...
A Desktop GIS is what you switch to when you realize that the browser
makes a really poor operating system,
andrea antonello wrote:
Among the things that QGIS (and other open source desktops) can't do
are a table join, a spatial join
I'm not sure what you mean with spatial join, but if you mean overlay, and
raster combination GRASS can do, and it can also do table joins, while it
overlays two vector
I agree with some of the other responses that challenge the way of
traditional thinking. Desktop GIS, Web and Databases are the tools
of today - it's interesting to watch the various ways they come
together (collide?) in projects. If you look to replace desktop
proprietary options, you ma
> > Among the things that QGIS (and other open source desktops) can't do
> > are a table join, a spatial join
> >
>
> I'm not sure what you mean with spatial join, but if you mean overlay, and
> raster combination GRASS can do, and it can also do table joins, while it
> overlays two vector layers.
On 25.04.2008 17:55, Paul Ramsey wrote:
Paolo,
Among the things that QGIS (and other open source desktops) can't do
are a table join, a spatial join
I'm not sure what you mean with spatial join, but if you mean overlay,
and raster combination GRASS can do, and it can also do table joins,
whi
Paolo,
Among the things that QGIS (and other open source desktops) can't do
are a table join, a spatial join, high quality paper output, and
symbolized thematic mapping. Particular drawbacks of QGIS include the
single-threaded user interface model (ui locks during render, making
work with large f
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