Frank Warmerdam wrote: > Daniel Ames wrote: >> I teach ArcGIS 9.3 every semester, so I'll happily provide that >> perspective (as well as the MapWindow desktop perspective). >> By the way Tyler gave an awesome OSGeo talk at AGU in San Francisco >> last week and handled the "how does this stack up to ESRI" question >> brilliantly. I believe the answer was, "We see ESRI as a major >> success story for OSGeo since they've adopted GDAL and OGR." Couldn't >> have been addressed more perfectly. > > Folks, > > To be clear, I am unaware of any adoption of OGR by ESRI. They do make > extensive use of GDAL for raster translation and raster data access. Minor note - usually when I give this answer I say GDAL/OGR as a blanket project name, but I can see how that can be confusing when spoken verbally :) > > While this is a good point to mention, and helps point out that things > aren't as simple as "us and them", since even them is often one of us > in some respects, I'd like us to be able to give a deeper answer. > > Many workloads that are currently done with ArcGIS could also be done > with FOSS tools (most web mapping, much desktop work, and some deep > analysis). I'd like to get white papers, and presentations addressing > some of these easily transferrable workloads. I'd also like this workflow assessment angle from the perspective of "how I got this project done using FOSS tools" - with a backdrop of what they'd have to do otherwise (e.g. using a proprietary package).
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