<font size=3 face="Arial">The paper can be accessed directly with no subscription
here:</font><br><a href=http://www.geo.uzh.ch/~sstein/manuscripts/sstein_freegitools_ecoinf2009.pdf><font size=3 face="Arial">http://www.geo.uzh.ch/~sstein/manuscripts/sstein_freegitools_ecoinf2009.pdf</font></a><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">An interesting read. Highlights from
the Conclusion:</font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">"We report that due to the relative
youth of the eight evaluated FOS GIS projects, they generally tend
to have less overall GIS functionality than proprietary high-end GIS...
However, on the positive side they all provide the basic GIS functions
needed in LSE[Landscape Ecology]; they are easy to customise; a growing
number of specialised functions and plug-ins already exists for specific
LSE applications; and there is a growing community of practitioners willing
to freely share their ideas, code and expertise."</font><br><br><br><br><br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">From:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Howard Y <hayamaguchi@gmail.com></font><br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">To:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</font><br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Date:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">28/02/2012 14:51</font><br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Subject:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">[Qgis-user]
Re: New to QGIS, Best solution?</font><br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Sent by:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">qgis-user-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</font><br><hr noshade><br><br><br><tt><font size=2>David,<br><br>Tables 2 and 3 of the following paper have some very nice comparisons of<br>various open source software and ArcGIS 9.3.<br><br>Steiniger, Stefan, and Geoffrey J. Hay, Free and open source geographic<br>information tools for landscape ecology, Ecological Informatics, Volume
4,<br>Issue 4, September 2009, Pages 183-195.<br><br>If you can't access their paper, contact the authors and they will send
you<br>a PDF of the paper.<br><br>--<br>View this message in context: </font></tt><a href="http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/New-to-QGIS-Best-solution-tp4498936p4522509.html"><tt><font size=2>http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/New-to-QGIS-Best-solution-tp4498936p4522509.html</font></tt></a><tt><font size=2><br>Sent from the Quantum GIS - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.<br>_______________________________________________<br>Qgis-user mailing list<br>Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org<br></font></tt><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user"><tt><font size=2>http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user</font></tt></a><tt><font size=2><br></font></tt><br><BR>
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