Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS for safe organization use

2023-05-28 Thread Greg Troxel via QGIS-User
Mike Flannigan writes: > What is ITAR?  When I look up ITAR I get: > International Traffic in Arms Regulations > > Ah, I see that is it: > > "ITAR rules is a precondition of receiving controlled > goods and technologies from a U.S. company." > > We are running into that with a project I am involv

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS for safe organization use

2023-05-28 Thread Mike Flannigan via QGIS-User
What is ITAR?  When I look up ITAR I get: International Traffic in Arms Regulations Ah, I see that is it: "ITAR rules is a precondition of receiving controlled goods and technologies from a U.S. company." We are running into that with a project I am involved in at work. Mike On 5/23/23 12

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS for safe organization use.

2023-05-26 Thread Nicolas Cadieux via QGIS-User
Hi, Your data is your data! It will be safe if you keep it safe. If you have any concerns regarding the safety of QGIS, send a mail to the NRCAN Canadian mapping service in Sherbrooke Quebec. They use QGIS and other products. Between you and me, I would stick with QGIS as ArcGIS could lock

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS for safe organization use.

2023-05-23 Thread Emma Hain via QGIS-User
r many reasons 🙂 ). > > That would be my 2 cent. > > Best regards, > > Michael > -- > *Von:* QGIS-User im Auftrag von Simon > via QGIS-User > *Gesendet:* Dienstag, 23. Mai 2023 18:09 > *An:* qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org > *Betreff:* [

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS for safe organization use.

2023-05-23 Thread Michael Gieding via QGIS-User
QGIS-User Gesendet: Dienstag, 23. Mai 2023 18:09 An: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Betreff: [Qgis-user] QGIS for safe organization use. Hello, I work at the Department of National Defense for the Canadian government and had some questions regarding QGIS. Firstly, I'm working on a project t

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS for safe organization use.

2023-05-23 Thread Benjamin Ducke via QGIS-User
So let me get this right, Simon: You work for a national defense agency, in a high-security environment. Yet: You prefer and trust (because it is expensive, and must thus be trustworthy?) a GIS that is produced by a foreign giant corporation and consists of only proprietary software which you

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS for safe organization use.

2023-05-23 Thread Madry, Scott via QGIS-User
A more germane point to our Canadian friend’s query is the fact that the U.S. NGA, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, went completely Open Source back in 2017 due to the fact that ESRI would not allow them to view the source code to check for trap doors, etc. They had been a very large

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS for safe organization use.

2023-05-23 Thread Greg Troxel via QGIS-User
jhubbslist--- via QGIS-User writes: > I made a decision a long time ago to stick with QGIS and other Open > Source software for GIS purposes because my access to ESRI products > depends on an employer's or client's paying for it; if I no longer > have that employer or client, I'll lose that acces

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS for safe organization use.

2023-05-23 Thread Randal Hale via QGIS-User
Greetings from the South of Canada. So I'm a user and not a programmer by any stretch. The open source license for QGIS covers the Software. Your data is your data and no one else's unless you physically share it. It's not any less safe than Arcpro. The data it builds is compatible with ESRI

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS for safe organization use.

2023-05-23 Thread jhubbslist--- via QGIS-User
Hi, Simon - The geodatabase and layer data files will be as protected as you and your department's IT shop make them. So make sure to keep them off AWS, Dropbox, Azure, or any other external service. If anything, you're better off with QGIS in that regard - especially if you run it built from

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS for safe organization use.

2023-05-23 Thread Greg Troxel via QGIS-User
Simon via QGIS-User writes: > Now, a large portion of the information regarding the buildings and > their locations is confidential, and so I'm wondering if the > geodatabase and layer that I plan to create will be safe and > protected, or if other users will have access to them since QGIS is > f

[Qgis-user] QGIS for safe organization use.

2023-05-23 Thread Simon via QGIS-User
Hello, I work at the Department of National Defense for the Canadian government and had some questions regarding QGIS. Firstly, I'm working on a project to determine the seismic risk and vulnerability of all the department's buildings different Canadian Provinces. An important part of the proj