Paolo - are you trying to provoke me ;-) ? You know I am an advocate of
QGIS.
But we have to be realistic. ESRI ArcGIS, with several thousand
employees, decades in development, tens-of thousand customers paying
their yearly regular license fees with a yearly income of multimillion
dollars - it is only natural that it is more powerful than an OS project
in development for some years by 20-30 active developers and a user base
of several thousand.
QGIS is very promising and we use it every day and support it and
actively participate in improving it - and I believe that some day it
may even be better than big ESRI ArcGIS - but ArcGIS has several key
aspects that QGIS cannot deliver now:
* 3D support (TIN, viewing, surface interpolation, multipatch support,
etc.)
* curve support (arcs, splines, etc.)
* cartographic rules (QGIS is getting there)
* tons of 3rd party apps and a huge business network around it
* more analytical tools and algorithms
* better topology and network tools
* domain specific apps tailored to specific nees: survey tools, utility
line documentation, etc.
* and perhaps some more
Of course it also has it weaknesses, and some strengths are perhaps
also weaknesses, e.g. the size of the organization makes it slower to
innovate.
As much as I love and use QGIS, one has to be realistic and admit that
the big commercial alternatives sometimes play in a different liga. But
it won't stay like this forever ...
Andreas
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:08:04 +0200, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
Il giorno gio, 16/06/2011 alle 14.39 +0200, Andreas Neumann ha
scritto:
Thanks for the explanation. ArcGIS is still more powerful than QGIS,
Are you *really* sure?
http://donmeltz.com/blog/index.php/2011/06/10/arcgisqgis-faceoff/
I'd be interested in knowing how.
All the best.
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8624 Grüt (Gossau ZH)
Switzerland
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