[Qgis-user] Re: Brochure from FIG/FAO: FLOSS in Cadastre and Land Registration - Opportunities and Risk

[Andreas Neumann]

  Hi Gertrude,

First let me thank you for working on the publication! I think it is 
excellent work. I agree that some information can get outdated very quickly.

Thank you for pointing us to the existing efforts of Stefan, you and 
others for Desktop GIS comparisons. I think we (the QGIS community) can 
certainly help to update the QGIS column in your comparison chart 
(http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Albk_XRkhVkzdGxyYk8tNEZvLUp1UTUzTFN5bjlLX2c&hl=en) 
- there is quite a bit of functionality/information missing in this 
chart. Things that were introduced in QGIS 1.4 and QGIS 1.5.

The question is how we deal with functionality that is only available 
through Plugins? Should it be mentioned that the functionality is 
available through plugin (a footnote?)

One interesting new development with QGIS is to use existing resources 
also for web services. The start is the QGIS Mapserver (or QGIS server), 
which can use an existing desktop project and deploy it as WMS for the 
web. Together with OpenLayers/Ext/GeoExt one can do quite powerful 
webmapping systems, in a relative short time. Later, additional OGC 
services may follow, such as WFS server or others.

For the record: QGIS did not start as a GRASS viewer, but as a Postgis 
viewer (by Gary Sherman). I believe GRASS editing was added much later.

Andreas

On 8/28/10 2:53 PM, gpieper wrote:
> Hello Andreas and Paolo,
> Thank you for your interest in the FAO-FIG publication on FLOSS for
> Cadastre and Land Registration.
>
> Quoting "Andreas Neumann-4-3 [via OSGeo.org]"
> <[hidden email] </user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=5472637&i=0>>:
> > They base their software comparison chart on QGIS 1.3, which is a bit
> > outdated. And sometimes they make wrong statements, like "Quantum 
> GIS is a
> > light-weight frontend for GRASS data which works also well with PostGIS
> > data." It would be ok, when it was stated like "Quantum GIS is also a
> > lightweight frontend for GRASS data ...."
>
> I probably should have said "Quantum GIS started out as a lightweight
> frontend for GRASS data ... ".
> QGIS 1.4 came out after the deadline for the publication, but I
> mentioned the new functions of QGIS when presenting at the launch of
> the publication in Sydney
> (http://www.fig.net/pub/fig2010/ppt/ts04a/ts04a_pieper_ppt_4577.pdf)
>
> Of course, any comparison of desktop GIS in print gets outdated very
> quickly (QGIS at 1.5 now!) and a better way to do this would be by
> putting it up on the OSGeo wiki (Stefan Steiniger's table is an
> excellent start!) and have it updated by one or two people from each
> desktop GIS project after major releases. I planned to work on that
> with Cameron Shorter for FOSS4G Barcelona, but it hasn't come off the
> ground yet for lack of time and resources. Does any of you know if
> there has been an interest in maintaining a desktop GIS comparison
> table on the OSGeo wiki from the QGIS side?
>
> Greetings, Gertrude
>
>
>
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