<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Bernhard Ströbl asked me to elaborate on why I said, "it would be unrealistic to say we could ever be a 100% QGIS."</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">So, here is my elaboration for what it is worth...Please keep in mind, I would love for us to use a 100% FOSS/ QGIS...</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><ul><li><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Integration with 3rd party systems (Work Order Systems, Dispatch, etc.)</div></li><li><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Webmaps - currently many departments use ArcGIS Online for data collection via tablets, webmaps in general etc...</div></li><li><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Cadastral mapping function (I could have just missed this plugin, if I did someone please point me in the right direction) which allows mapping straight lines and curves </div></li><li><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">IT support and education is lacking in our shop...we are working on this education currently</div></li><ul><li><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">I think this item is very important...at least in our shop, I have no permissions on my computer, so it goes back to proving ROI, etc. to upper management and IT departments</div></li></ul></ul><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">I hope this helps...</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Joseph </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 7:52 AM, Randal Hale <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rjhale@northrivergeographic.com" target="_blank">rjhale@northrivergeographic.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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If I could chip in - one of my clients is a large industrial client.
They have two sides of their "mapping" group - Autocad and ESRI.
Then I show up : ). <br>
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They use the DWG format - in fact most of my clients that have
autocad capability will send me DWG and when I go "hey could you
convert that to dxf" there is a general groan. So - I pop open
arcgis and convert. Now that I think about it I've never tried
converting data from dwg to shape or back to dwg with gdal. I don't
know if that is even possible (I need to look). TN's department of
Transportation runs a healthy mix of ESRI/AutoCAD/Microstation (I
think) but as far as a know no open source anything. I get the
question of "What about DWG?" more than I care to mention. <br>
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Having DWG capabilites would be a huge gain for QGIS (I think). <br>
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Anyway - my unsolicited .02 cents worth. <br>
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Randy<br>
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<div>On 06/15/2015 03:28 AM, Andreas Neumann
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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 href="https://www.opendesign.com/the_oda_platform/Teigha" target="_blank">https://www.opendesign.com/the_oda_platform/Teigha</a>),
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>On 15.06.2015 08:57, Micha Silver
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<div>On 06/15/2015 09:23 AM, Bernhard
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<blockquote type="cite">Hi
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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