[OSGeo-Discuss] Auto complete in Open Jump. OS GIS vs ESRI
Hi all, here is some encouraging information from OJ Cheers Ravi Kumar Note: forwarded message attached. - Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.---BeginMessage--- Send jump-users mailing list submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/jump-users or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of jump-users digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Can I do the same GIS tasks withOS (as with ESRI)? (Stefan Steiniger) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:32:01 -0600 From: Stefan Steiniger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [jump-users] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Can I do the same GIS tasks withOS (as with ESRI)? To: JUMP Users Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed btw. OpenJUMPs Nightly Build has also an Auto-Complete Polygon tool, now. From a personal stand point I think OpenJUMPs editing capabilities for Vector data are very good and straight forward. What we don't - in comparison to ESRI ArcGIS is something like the tracing function. Stefan RAVI KUMAR wrote: Hi Cameron, the table of comparison is informative. Most of the ARC-GIS users (my personal view) are Vector GIS users. They are concerned of 1. Registration of Paper maps into GIS 2. Attribution 3. Analysis depending on their need. CAD 4. Outputs of the above are also to be plotted in elegant maps with proper symbology and standard colors. As an OSGeo enthusiast I recommend a cocktail of OS GIS software mix. OpenJUMP and Qgis for steps Qgis 1 to 3 Qgis and GRASS for advanced analysis GRASS for statistical analysis with R OpenJUMP and Inkscape for step 4. As a geologist I get oriented structures properly symbolised and rotated (possible in OpenJUMP) Am making some notes and soon wish to offer for downloading through GRASS and OpenJUMP websites. Ravi Kumar */Cameron Shorter [EMAIL PROTECTED]/* wrote: Ravi, What us Open Source evangelists are missing is an honest comparison between ESRI desktop applications and Open Source equivalents. What is it about ArcView and ArcGIS that people really like, listed feature by feature in a table. Then identify whether Open Source covers it and how. Very important is to address usability. How quickly can an Arc* user migrate to Open Source? My skill set is lacking here as I don't have much experience in either ESRI or the Open Source desktop tools. It seems like you have experience with both which puts you in a unique position. Is this something you, or one of your students would like to investigate further? Maybe build a table similar to this one: http://www.spatialserver.net/osgis/Desktopgis_overview.htm RAVI KUMAR wrote: Hi, this is the kind of question I face when in my lectures evangelising OS GIS. ArcGIS has many tools, though some prefer to call it a deluge of tools, which almost distance the user from understanding the concept of GIS. Auto Complete Polygon: In Qgis which is a very userfriendly OS GIS you have 'Cut polygon', do try and find the difference. Polygonising from lines: Open JUMP has one of the most userfriendly approaches. Create lines and polygonise in OpenJUMP and the software automatically creates a folder for Dangles (un-wanted line pieces) The query is more for Vector GIS, I suppose. GRASS GIS: It has so many features for Image analysis and Raster GIS, the commercial GIS need a barge pole to even touch it. The vector Part of GRASS is robust too. Ravi Kumar */Markus Neteler /* wrote: On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:55 PM, George R. C. Silva wrote: ... One thing GIS OS software could have are better editing tools. I do miss them alot, and the one is ArcGIS are unbeatable (i dont know any O.S. software that have 'autocomplete polygon', tons of snapping options, etc - btw, if you do, let me know). FOSS is great, but it lacks (IMHO) better editing options. We are working on that: http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/WxPython-based_GUI_for_GRASS#Digitizer Screenshots: http://grass.osgeo.org/screenshots/gui.php
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Auto complete in Open Jump. OS GIS vs ESRI
Hello Ravi, Right now ive tested Qgis rc 0.9.2, which acomplishes the 'autocomplete' task. I still need to teste OpenJUMP. Thanks for the insight George On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 3:06 AM, RAVI KUMAR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, here is some encouraging information from OJ Cheers Ravi Kumar Note: forwarded message attached. -- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=51733/*http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ -- Forwarded message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:01:21 -0700 (PDT) Subject: jump-users Digest, Vol 51, Issue 15 Send jump-users mailing list submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/jump-users or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of jump-users digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Can I do the same GIS tasks withOS (as with ESRI)? (Stefan Steiniger) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:32:01 -0600 From: Stefan Steiniger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [jump-users] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Can I do the same GIS tasks withOS (as with ESRI)? To: JUMP Users Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed btw. OpenJUMPs Nightly Build has also an Auto-Complete Polygon tool, now. From a personal stand point I think OpenJUMPs editing capabilities for Vector data are very good and straight forward. What we don't - in comparison to ESRI ArcGIS is something like the tracing function. Stefan RAVI KUMAR wrote: Hi Cameron, the table of comparison is informative. Most of the ARC-GIS users (my personal view) are Vector GIS users. They are concerned of 1. Registration of Paper maps into GIS 2. Attribution 3. Analysis depending on their need. CAD 4. Outputs of the above are also to be plotted in elegant maps with proper symbology and standard colors. As an OSGeo enthusiast I recommend a cocktail of OS GIS software mix. OpenJUMP and Qgis for steps Qgis 1 to 3 Qgis and GRASS for advanced analysis GRASS for statistical analysis with R OpenJUMP and Inkscape for step 4. As a geologist I get oriented structures properly symbolised and rotated (possible in OpenJUMP) Am making some notes and soon wish to offer for downloading through GRASS and OpenJUMP websites. Ravi Kumar */Cameron Shorter [EMAIL PROTECTED]/* wrote: Ravi, What us Open Source evangelists are missing is an honest comparison between ESRI desktop applications and Open Source equivalents. What is it about ArcView and ArcGIS that people really like, listed feature by feature in a table. Then identify whether Open Source covers it and how. Very important is to address usability. How quickly can an Arc* user migrate to Open Source? My skill set is lacking here as I don't have much experience in either ESRI or the Open Source desktop tools. It seems like you have experience with both which puts you in a unique position. Is this something you, or one of your students would like to investigate further? Maybe build a table similar to this one: http://www.spatialserver.net/osgis/Desktopgis_overview.htm RAVI KUMAR wrote: Hi, this is the kind of question I face when in my lectures evangelising OS GIS. ArcGIS has many tools, though some prefer to call it a deluge of tools, which almost distance the user from understanding the concept of GIS. Auto Complete Polygon: In Qgis which is a very userfriendly OS GIS you have 'Cut polygon', do try and find the difference. Polygonising from lines: Open JUMP has one of the most userfriendly approaches. Create lines and polygonise in OpenJUMP and the software automatically creates a folder for Dangles (un-wanted line pieces) The query is more for Vector GIS, I suppose. GRASS GIS: It has so many features for Image analysis and Raster GIS, the commercial GIS need a barge pole to even touch it. The vector Part of GRASS is robust too. Ravi Kumar */Markus Neteler /* wrote: On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:55 PM, George R. C. Silva wrote: ...
[OSGeo-Discuss] Photo stories form FOSSGIS events
Folks, AFAIK, we - the OSGeo - have participated in a number of interesting GIS/FOSSGIS events [1]. Also, new events [1] are planned in near future. I'd like to call for photo stories from events in which OSGeo people attended :-) It would be cool to syndicate photo stories ie. on Flickr, by tagging it with osgeo tag and/or submitting to the OSGeo group [2] (BTW, there is also more general group [5] available). I'd also spread the idea from FOSS4G 2007 about asking people to put conference photos on the Flickr and tag with foss4g2007 [3] so they can be gathered on the website [4]. It would be cool if we will do the same in 2008. Pictures tell stories and I'm sure they are interesting for those who can not attend some events. [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Events [2] http://www.flickr.com/groups/osgeo/ [3] http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/foss4g2007/ [4] http://www.foss4g2007.org/pictures/ [5] http://www.flickr.com/groups/foss4g/ Greetings -- Mateusz Loskot http://mateusz.loskot.net ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
