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<span style=" font-family:'default'; font-size: 9pt;">Simon,<br>
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I was merely suggesting an approach. As I said, we didn't have a goal to inform other what Desktop GIS is the best, we just wanted to present a model dataset for many different packages, so that a person can try and choose by himself. <br>
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However, there are some notes for each package at the bottom of the page. Personally, I have a favorite, of course, but I don't think this is appropriate to describe it here. That said, I think this will be relatively easy to construct a matrix based on our experience with missing bits for this particular task. We're currently going through updating software and this project and will discuss this among participants.<br>
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Maxim<br>
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<span style=" font-family:'arial'; font-size: 8pt; color: #c0c0c0;"><i>Вы писали 20 декабря 2009 г., 16:52:06:<br>
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<td width=761><span style=" font-family:'default'; font-size: 9pt;">Maxim,<br>
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I looked at the webpage but could not find an outcome -- which system worked the best?<br>
Cheers Simon<br>
Simon Cropper <br>
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<span style=" font-family:'default'; font-size: 9pt;">Sometime ago, we were also interested in why are there so many desktop open GIS packages. So what we did was the following, we created a model project with several groups of different type layers and recreated it with 10+ packages, opensource, proprietory, even some web-based ones. It is was quite interesting exercise, where a dozen of people participated and it was pretty clear in the end where opensource GIS are in comparison with proprietory and in between themselves.<br>
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Of course this only covers simple project building and does not compare analysis etc. Moreover, the initial goal of this dataset was not comparison, but easy start with any common desktop GIS package + assistance to devs and education purposes, some ability to conclude which one was better was sort of a side-effect.<br>
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You can check the results here, (originally in Russian):<br>
<a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fgis-lab.info%2Fqa%2Fgeosample.html&sl=ru&tl=en">http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fgis-lab.info%2Fqa%2Fgeosample.html&sl=ru&tl=en</a><br>
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Maxim <br>
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