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from GIS, but sometimes with consuming more time.<br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Malte Halbey-Martin <malte@geog.fu-berlin.de><br>To: OSGeo Discussions <discuss@lists.osgeo.org><br>Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2008 11:56:26 AM<br>Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Can I do the same GIS tasks with OS (as with ESRI)?<br><br>
Hi,<br><br>IMHO the most barrier for people using OS GIS is the lack of a user<br>friendly interface, especially for map production and digitising. I know<br>that this has been stated before in this thread, but I want stress this<br>point out.<br><br>I'm working as as supporter and software trainer for a software company<br>and not few of our customers are paying much money for applications,<br>which simplifys/extend the common ArcGIS funcitonallity! Most people are<br>overstrained about the functionallity of GIS software. I think the users<br>of GIS have changed over the past decade. More common people have to<br>work with GIS (especially public servants). GIS has become a common<br>software tool so the users aren't only specialist as some years ago!<br>This "new" users just want to have a button and that's it. Don't ask<br>them to create a sql string for extracting some data out of a database.<br><br>So as already mentioned, OS GIS NEEDS as
userfriendly Interface,<br>powerful digitizing and map production tools which are easy to use. When<br>these issues have been solved, we will see a strong rising spread of OS<br>GIS software.<br><br>Just my opinion.<br>Malte<br>PS: I love OS Software, but I just want to see a rising distribution of it!<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Discuss mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Discuss@lists.osgeo.org" href="mailto:Discuss@lists.osgeo.org">Discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss</a><br></div></div></div><br>
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