Hi David, I have posted a question related to this in the Arches developer forum in case you are interested: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/arches-dev/VRk2ws0yMbo
Adam On Tuesday, March 3, 2020 at 9:02:28 AM UTC-6, David Osborne wrote: > > Hi Alison > > Thanks for your reply and explaining the background to the Arches/Arc > integration project. We will all have our own priorities so my comments > were not meant to be unappreciative of the development. I applaud Historic > England for helping to fund the initiative, particularly if it helps to > enable integration with other software such as QGIS! > > Best wishes > David > > On Thursday, 13 February 2020 18:32:25 UTC, Alison Dalgity wrote: >> >> Greetings David. I should have replied to you (and Alina) a long time >> ago. My apologies. >> >> You make an excellent point David, and I would venture to say that most >> of us agree with you--i.e., that our priority should be to develop >> integration with other open-source rather than proprietary tools. >> >> However, there is a clear reason why we are developing a full integration >> between Arches and esri–namely, the development has been financed. The >> effort is driven by Historic England because they use esri products >> widely, and they have kindly funded a significant piece of the development. >> (The remainder is financed by Farallon Geographics and us, the Getty >> Conservation Institute.) >> >> Our sincere hope in completing this work is, exactly as you suggest, that >> once the development patterns are established the work to integrate Arches >> with QGIS will be greatly facilitated...hopefully by someone very soon! >> >> Thanks for your candor, I really appreciate your feedback and hope that >> you continue to make your voice heard for the benefit of the community. >> >> Best, >> Alison >> >> On Thursday, January 2, 2020 at 11:03:29 AM UTC-8, Alina Myklebust wrote: >>> >>> Hi David, >>> >>> Thanks so much for your feedback on the roadmap. I imagine there will >>> be many discussions/conversations in the coming weeks/months about this new >>> ArcGIS >>> integration development. I'll ask others to chime in here too, because >>> I'm certain there have been thoughts and considerations related to >>> integration with QGIS too. >>> >>> Thanks again and Happy New Year! >>> >>> Very best, >>> >>> Alina >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tuesday, December 24, 2019 at 8:43:34 AM UTC-8, David Osborne wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi Alina >>>> >>>> The developments in the roadmap look interesting, especially, for me, >>>> the science applications. However, I must admit disappointment that ArcGIS >>>> has been chosen in preference to QGIS for the GIS interface. I expect >>>> there >>>> will be several projects which were attracted to Arches due to it being >>>> free, open-source software and, like ours, have opted for QGIS for the >>>> same >>>> reason. However, my hope is that, once the team have developed the Arches >>>> plugin for Arc, it will be possible to adapt it to interface with QGIS >>>> without too much extra work. >>>> >>>> Kind regards >>>> David >>>> >>>> On Wednesday, 18 December 2019 22:41:33 UTC, Alina Myklebust wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Greetings all, >>>>> >>>>> This week we published an updated Arches Roadmap on the Arches Project >>>>> website. You can find it here: >>>>> https://www.archesproject.org/roadmap/ >>>>> >>>>> Visit the page to find out about new key development initiatives and >>>>> planned features & development work slated for 2020. >>>>> >>>>> Roadmap highlights include: >>>>> >>>>> - Arches for Science >>>>> - Arches Workflows >>>>> - Arches/esri integration >>>>> - Important upgrades in Version 5 >>>>> >>>>> If you have any questions, please post them here. Thanks! >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> >>>>> Alina >>>>> Arches Project Team >>>>> >>>> -- -- To post, send email to archesproject@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe, send email to archesproject+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more information, visit https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Arches Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to archesproject+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/archesproject/f583e695-336f-4837-a6c7-a4bd37a18968%40googlegroups.com.
