[Qgis-user] QGIS & GRASS

[Agustin Lobo]

...and to SAGA, which is another very powerful analytic GIS
which commands can be run through python and with
an excellent R-SAGA communication.

Agus

Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> Micha Silver ha scritto:
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>> In my view, the special strength of QGIS is in its simplicity. Today,
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> ...
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>> door into almost everything that gis analysis could require. So, I agree
>> with Markus and Paulo that QGIS should stay, on the surface, an easy to
>> use viewer, editor, and map designer for GIS data, with the "heavy
>> lifting" done thru plugins to other software.
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> I think the real strength of QGIS is the easy access to many different
> GFOSS tools: it is a good frontend to GRASS, PostGIS, SpatiaLite, R,
> WMS, WFS, and it helps setting up a MapServer project. Soon it will
> allow full access to OpenStreetMap, and probably oalso to OSSIM.
> I see QGIS as a very important glue among many different freeGIS
> projects, and it is easy to imagine future additions to this (eg WFS-T,
> and much more).
> All the best.
>