[Qgis-user] .Net Control and more

[Alex Mandel]

On 02/27/2012 09:10 AM, David Speyer wrote:
> Thanks for getting back to me Alister!
> 
> Now I have more specific questions for the group:
> 
> 1)	What map formats are supported?  In particular are TAB files supported?
> 
Anything supported by GDAL/OGR, www.gdal.org

> 2)	Can QGIS be used as a Control - Is there an existing tool that can easily be wrapped into a .Net C# Windows Control?   (The equivalent of MapInfo Extreme). 
> 
Yes, but only C++ and python

> 3)	Can a floor plan jpg file be layered over a blank map control and then registered via TAB file using minimally three points on the map with Latitude and Longitude?  Then with mouse click know all the other coordinates on the map?   Is this a simple process?  (Again this can be easily done with MapInfo Extreme).
Yes, georegistration tool is built in.

> 
> 4)	Web App and Stand Alone Support?
>
There is work on Web Client to correspond with QGIS Server. Desktop
standalone is the primary mechanism for all current deployments.

> 5)	Has Layering - Ability to draw several layers of routes and various symbols with different colors onto to the displayed map - programmatically controlled?  Legend? (Again using as .Net Control).
> 
Yes, but again only C++ and python

> 6)	Access to Maps (can you get from web database?) 
> 
Yes, WMS, WFS, Tiles, Postgis, etc.. are all supported.

> 7)	Report Generation Capabilities:  If we were to wrap QGIS, is there a wide variety of reports that can be generated (i.e. letting the end user create custom map-based reports)?
>
Only a few such plugins exist but could be easy to write.


I think you are more likely to want to look at SharpMap and MapWindow
which are .net applications and tools under open source licenses.

Thanks,
Alex

> -----Original Message-----
> From: qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Alister Hood
> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 9:10 PM
> To: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: RE: [Qgis-user] New to QGIS, Best solution?
> 
> Hi David,
> It really depends on:
> - what you need to do, and
> - what addons you would have for MapInfo or ArcGIS.
> 
> I don't do a lot of GIS work, and I have no experience with ArcGIS, but I do have MapInfo.
> I gather some features of MapInfo are supposed to be quite good for things like inputting and managing data, which is why it has been quite popular in local government (at least in NZ and Australia).
> As I see it MapInfo's main downsides are:
> 1) It isn't very powerful - you need to buy all sorts of addons if you really want to do much in it.  (I guess with QGIS you also need to use something like GRASS for some things.  The trouble with MapInfo is that it seems like you're not really getting anything for your dollar.)  If some of the major addons were included with MapInfo then it would be a lot easier to understand why people buy it.
> 2) In some respects e.g. map-making it is very user-unfriendly.  Especially the problems with the way its layout windows are connected to map windows.  And QGIS is just generally much nicer to use than MapInfo.
> 3) It doesn't handle data in all sorts of different formats nicely like QGIS does.
> 
> I generally don't even think about using MapInfo these days - I haven't bothered to install the last couple of updates. And MapInfo isn't going anywhere fast - like someone mentioned in the link below, they seem to put all their effort into marketing, while the software stays stuck in the mid '90s, with little indication that it will ever really improve.
> The one MapInfo feature that I currently miss in QGIS is the ability to perform operations in the Object menu like "Split" on selected features - ftools in QGIS only operates with whole layers.
> 
> I guess MapInfo is _a little_ less buggy than QGIS, but not as much as I'd expect, especially given that it doesn't really seem to do much, and there is so little change in each release.
> 
> You might be interested in some of the discussion at http://woostuff.wordpress.com/2011/07/07/browser-wars-qgis-vs-mapinfo-11/
> 
> But I'm not sure how relevant this all is to you - it sounds like you are thinking of building some sort of standalone application or web-based solution.  How would that work with .Net and QGIS?
> If you're integrating with .NET I imagine you should check out Mapwindow.  Have you?
> Mapwindow is quite nice, but it generally* doesn't seem to be as powerful or user-friendly as QGIS.
> 
> *For some specific things there are very good plugins for Mapwindow that aren't available for QGIS.
> 
> Regards,
> Alister
> 
> 
>> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:16:01 +0000
>> From: David Speyer <David.Speyer at pctel.com>
>> Subject: [Qgis-user] New to QGIS, Best solution?
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>> Hello -
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>> I am still in the middle of evaluating various map solutions and would find it *very* helpful if anyone could compare the features/functionality/reliability of Qgis to MapInfo Pro or ArcGIS  or even Google Maps APIs.  I'd be integrating this with Microsoft based UIs (.Net).  We are already using MapInfo with MapExtreme (a version that is a few versions old).
>>
>> Thanks!
>> David.
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