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Hi Micha,<br>
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Thanks again for your response. I will discuss this with the devs
and will probably come up with a proposal, asking for some
organizations to join the funding.<br>
<br>
Andreas<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Andreas:<br>
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Thanks for your response.<br>
I'm quite sure that for most regional councils here, DXF would
not be enough. The surveyors and planners that we work with all
use Autodesk products. All their work is delivered in dwg, and
some do not even know that there is such a thing as DXF.<br>
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I have not been following the Open Design Alliance lately, but
including that library QGIS would certainly be a quantum leap
forward. After Radim's success in crowd funding the
implementation of GRASS 7, your suggestion indeed sounds
feasible.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Micha<br>
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On 6/15/2015 10:28 AM, Andreas Neumann wrote:<br>
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Hi Micha,<br>
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That is interesting - we invested a lot in the DXF export
capabilities of QGIS. Once this is finished I am pretty sure we
will also look to improve the situation regarding the import.<br>
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Do you think import of DXF is enough or do we also need DWG
support? If so, the best bet would probably be the Teigha
library from the Open Design Alliance (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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which isn't available for free - but it is the library most
other GIS (eg. ESRI, Intergraph) and CAD (eg. Bentley, Bricscad,
etc.) are using. We would have to pay a membership fee, but it
allows us to redistribute the library with the software.
Membership in the consortium is affordable in my opinion.<br>
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What are your thoughts on this? Would you also be available to
help with a crowd-funding effort? Do you see options besides
Teigha?<br>
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Andreas<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 06/15/2015 09:23 AM, Bernhard
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Joseph, <br>
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could you elaborate why "it would be unrealistic to say we <br>
could ever be a 100% QGIS"? I am curious because I lost
contact with ESRI products a couple years ago. <br>
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From our point of view, we need support for dwg. That side of
vendor lock-in is, unfortunately, even stronger that the ties
to ESRI. So we stay with Arc* not because of the GIS
capabilites, but more or less only because of the ability to
read Autocad plans and surveys.<br>
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