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

[Noli Sicad]

Hi Gertrude,

I suggest that you download  QGIS and install all the QGIS plugins
including the 3rd parties and when you do the review.  A lot of the
QGIS plugin are not documented, or just have general title and
features are not fully describe. The manual lacks documentation of
these plugins. Some are not listed in the QGIS plugin repo  e.g.
QuantunNik - rendering and creating Mapnik Map in QGIS.

Some of the features in QGIS are hidden (e.g. creating unlimited Color
Ramps for thematic mapping). You can create as many color ramps
combination as you can in QGIS 1.5 not even using a plugin to do this.

Anybody know how many QGIS plugins?

Noli

On 8/30/10, gertrude.pieper at online.com.kh <gertrude.pieper at online.com.kh> wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> Quoting Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net>:
>> 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.
>
> Yes, that is the table I was referring to, already a bit outdated but
> very useful if the info is updated for all the projects. I cc this to
> Cameron Shorter (Cameron do you know if there have been any new
> developments on the desktop GIS comparison issue?)
>
>> 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?)
>
> I guess this is something that the participating projects would have
> to agree on, I would say that it is perfectly OK to add functionality
> to the table that is only available through plugins. In my view, a
> comparison table should answer questions such as "We need to do this
> and that in our project, can we do it with QGIS or do we need gvSIG?"
> and in that sense, all the functionality that is publicly available
> (and tested with the current version) could be included. On the other
> hand, I suppose only stable software releases should be included,
> since the stable versions are the ones that are used in production
> environments.
>
>> 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.
>
> Support for WMS, WFS and other OGC services are definitely interesting
> features to follow up and compare between projects!
>
>> 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.
>
> Thanks for pointing this out!
>
> Best regards, Gertrude
>
>
>
>
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