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Hi All
Interesting discussion – I am responsible for GIS at a small local authority in
the UK
Hi,
2015-06-19 15:19 GMT+02:00 Carlos Cerdán sig.up...@gmail.com:
Hi there:
As open source philosophy, personal motivation has a big weight. One
enthusiastic QGIS user can do difference to motivate other GIS users into
QGIS adventure.
I'm working in a local government for two years and
Hi there:
As open source philosophy, personal motivation has a big weight. One
enthusiastic QGIS user can do difference to motivate other GIS users into
QGIS adventure.
I'm working in a local government for two years and half. It took me almost
a year convince other that our geodatabase is
Congratulations Carlos! That is right and the way!
Ariel Rodríguez-Vargas
On 19.06.2015 08:19, Carlos Cerdán wrote:
Hi there:
As open source philosophy, personal motivation has a big weight. One
enthusiastic QGIS user can do difference to motivate other GIS users
into QGIS adventure.
I'm
Hi all,
I think this is a useful discussion as QGIS is (at least IMHO) the most
popular OpenSource GIS in the public sector. From the discussion I
understand there are two reasons to not use QGIS as the sole GIS in this
context:
One are missing features (e.g. missing dwg support). As the
See the DMS Intramaps product - Postgis/Mapserver/QGIS stack plus Intramaps web
viewer, supports SQL Server instead of Postgis if required,
Being well received among smaller councils in New Zealand, and even some large
government agencies.
http://mapsolutions.com.au/
I am glad to have sparked some discussion. Being a FOSS4G application forum,
I am not entirely surprised by some of the comments, but all are
appreciated. (sorry upfront, this turned into a long post which perhaps
would be better suited on a blog of some sort)
I am a bit envious of those
Do you think import of DXF is enough or do we also need DWG support? If so,
the best bet would probably be the Teigha library from the Open Design
Alliance (https://www.opendesign.com/the_oda_platform/Teigha), which isn't
available for free - but it is the library most other GIS (eg. ESRI,
Bernhard Ströbl asked me to elaborate on why I said, it would be
unrealistic to say we could ever be a 100% QGIS.
So, here is my elaboration for what it is worth...Please keep in mind, I
would love for us to use a 100% FOSS/ QGIS...
- Integration with 3rd party systems (Work Order Systems,
Hi Micha,
Thanks again for your response. I will discuss this with the devs and
will probably come up with a proposal, asking for some organizations to
join the funding.
Andreas
On 15.06.2015 10:28, Micha Silver wrote:
Hi Andreas:
Thanks for your response.
I'm quite sure that for most
If I could chip in - one of my clients is a large industrial client.
They have two sides of their mapping group - Autocad and ESRI. Then I
show up : ).
They use the DWG format - in fact most of my clients that have autocad
capability will send me DWG and when I go hey could you convert that
Silver; qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Local Government for QGIS
Hi Micha,
Thanks again for your response. I will discuss this with the devs and will
probably come up with a proposal, asking for some organizations to join the
funding.
Andreas
On 15.06.2015 10:28, Micha Silver
training.)
Brent Wood
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On 6/15/2015 10:28 AM, Andreas Neumann wrote:
That is interesting - we invested a lot in the DXF export capabilities
of QGIS. Once this is finished I am pretty sure we will also look to
improve the situation regarding the import.
Do you think import of DXF is enough or do we also need DWG
Hi Andreas:
Thanks for your response.
I'm quite sure that for most regional councils here, DXF would not
be enough. The surveyors and planners that we work with all use
Autodesk products. All their work is delivered in dwg, and some do
not even know
Hi Joseph,
could you elaborate why it would be unrealistic to say we
could ever be a 100% QGIS? I am curious because I lost contact with
ESRI products a couple years ago.
Bernhard
Am 12.06.2015 um 19:23 schrieb Joseph Sloop:
To All,
I am glad to see the discussion and interest in QGIS in
Hi Micha,
That is interesting - we invested a lot in the DXF export capabilities
of QGIS. Once this is finished I am pretty sure we will also look to
improve the situation regarding the import.
Do you think import of DXF is enough or do we also need DWG support? If
so, the best bet would
On 06/15/2015 09:23 AM, Bernhard Ströbl
wrote:
Hi
Joseph,
could you elaborate why "it would be unrealistic to say we
could ever be a 100% QGIS"? I am curious because I lost contact
with ESRI products a couple years
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Hi All
Interesting discussion – I am responsible for GIS at a small local authority
Hi Steve,
Thank you for raising this important discussion.
In some European countries the situation is a bit different and Open
Source solutions are gaining an increasing market share. I live and work
in Switzerland - and while the majority of the markets still uses ESRI
products - there is
That is a great summary Falk!
I think the GIS community is lacking strategic marketeers and solid
branding. I personally tried to take that road once, thinking I was backed
by a solid group of open source professionals teamed up in a cooperation. I
was wrong. It is my opinion that the
Hi,
it is strange and in some way comforting that on the other side of earth
there are local government employees asked to do more with less resources
:)
In Italy, where I was a consultant for a local government, things are
slowly but constantly (in my view) changing toward an increase of FOSS
Here in the UK there is a growing momentum in the move towards using
FOSS/FOSS4G (QGIS / Geoserver / MapServer / PostgreSQL / PostGIS / OpenLayers /
Leaflet / etc / etc) in local government (and central government too). This is
being driven by a number of factors - open formats/standards vs
In the states it's all ESRI all day.
A few small governments might try to run in a FOSS4G direction but it's
rare. In the Southeast they go what is the next town over doing? we
will do the same thing. The models that ESRI provide are tempting for
many because suddenly everyone is doing the
Hello all,
Related to topic, I’ve been researching interest in setting up a regional
cooperative for local governments around GeoMOOSE (at first) users in my area
(upper Midwest, lot’s of GeoMOOSE up here)
If I can get an informal group together and get something started as a common
roadmap
In British Columbia, where I work in mineral exploration (in industry not
government) there has been quite a lot of interesting non-ESRI work at the
provincial geology and mining level. This is probably not a surprise if you no
the history of some of the tools.
My experience in our (junior
To All,
I am glad to see the discussion and interest in QGIS in local government. I
have been interested in QGIS in local government for sometime now. I work
for MapForsyth| City-County Geographic Information Office in Forsyth
County, North Carolina (USA). We have and use both QGIS and ESRI
They feel as thought they are adhering to a standard - of course a
standard put forth by a software company.
A proprietary software company with whom they have no reason to believe
their data from now will be accessible in 10 years, let along 50.
Yes it's free but it's very professional.
A
I've contemplated the same thing. I've been working on an openforestry
template (which I'm failing to update on github) for that very reason
(well two - to see if I could do it and because I want to provide an
alternative).
It's doable - it's just finding a coalition of the willing to start
Dear all,
thanks,
I find this is a very essential discussion to have, and with
QGIS, GDAL/R etc at its core and solution.
Much can be said, and should be said and changed,
but here a few points for a start:
-mapping relates to land, health and water management questions; many of
these are
I, too, work for local government - in New South Wales (Australia).
We were an exclusively MapInfo shop until I came along. Not that I can
claim the move to QGIS ... but adding me to the staff meant that the
opportunity was there to explore open source software and how it would fit
into
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