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 [email protected]. To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]. 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/archesproject/f583e695-336f-4837-a6c7-a4bd37a18968%40googlegroups.com.
