Joanne,
I'm very excited to hear about your experience and am keen to hear more.
My immediate need is to put together a strong argument by mid next week
for a techie to present to upper management.
Longer term, I'd love to see a case study we can add to
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Case_Studies . I expect your case study will
be widely read as this will be a common issue organisations face now
that ESRI have stopped support for Arc View 3.1.
So anything you can quickly flick me would be great. Do you have a user
needs assessment? A feature by feature comparison? Or anything similar
along those lines. A cost, benefit analysis?
How are you planning to address maintenance and support of the Open
Source products?
Longer term, compiling into a case study would be good. I'm happy to
review and provide feedback if that helps.
Joanne Cook wrote:
Hi Cameron,
We (Oxford Archaeology) are going through exactly that process at the moment, although we are replacing arcgis 9.2 rather than arcview. We are doing this primarily because changes in the licensing terms meant that we were no longer eligible for the educational discount, but it's part of a longer term move towards open source. We have spent some time investigating alternatives, and have a few contenders, and I'm sure we would be happy to advise, or provide a case study on this.
Basically we are looking at gvsig and qgis as the main options- gvsig because
it can use cad data, and qgis because we like the grass integration and it's
slightly more user-friendly for english speakers (the translated version of
gvsig still has some spanish bits in it). With slight changes to our
work-flows, we are finding that these two packages will do almost everything we
need a gis to do, with the exception of producing high-quality illustrations.
To achieve this we are currently looking at export to svg or postscript for
final editing in inkscape, but that's a work in progress.
Contact me (off-list or on) if you would like some more information on this
transition.
All the best
Jo
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Joanne Cook
Information Systems Coordinator
Oxford Archaeology (North)
01524 880212
http://thehumanjourney.net
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:28:57 +1000
From: Cameron Shorter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Geowanking] ArcView 3.1 replacement
To: Miguel Montesinos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[email protected]
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Some Australian organisations are considering replacing their ArcView
3.1 desktops with an Open Source alternative.
Is anyone aware of others who have gone through this process?
If so, who are they?
Do they have a case study?
I'm particularly interested to see a review of ArcView features used by
oganisation users, and compared against Open Source to see if the Open
Source covered their requirements.
I'm aware of this good review of Open Source Desktop clients at:
http://www.spatialserver.net/osgis/
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