[OSGeo-Discuss] arcGIS and Grass compatibility

[Marco Lechner]

hallo Ravi,

I can affirm your points about india. My experiences on a project in
Chennai about flood prevention, wich we almost finished, was that for
most of the planning authorities GIS = ArcGIS or MapInfo. If they use
GIS at all. But on a workshop with the authorities held in Chennai most
of them were deeply impressed when we showed them our
mapbender-geoserver-postgis-Kombination (wich is standard) to provide an
internet-based tool to collect spatial knowledge from stakeholders.
And I'm sure, this is not very special for india.

Marco

RAVI KUMAR schrieb:
> Hi
> are the users willing or wanting to do that move?
> do they have experience (or even training) in GRASS
> for the 'Indian scene', moving to FOSS GIS is the only way GIS can help
> at all levels.
> http://www.covenant-tech.com/thesis.pdf
> pl follow the link above
> Cheers
> Ravi Kumar
> */Jacolin Yves <yjacolin at free.fr>/* wrote:
> 
>     Le Friday 14 September 2007 02:08:35 Paulo Marcondes, vous avez écrit :
>     > 2007/9/13, k4mik4ze :
>     > > Hello, I would like to know everything about migration proyects from
>     > > arcGIS to Grass, can i create a web interface so users in a
>     department
>     > > can access all GIS data? Can i migrate arcGIS data to grass?
>     > > Thanks
>     >
>     > First, you have to know :
>     > why would you want to do such a move?
>     > are the users willing or wanting to do that move?
>     > do they have experience (or even training) in GRASS
>     > do they have with linux/unix?
>     > do you have experience with linux/unix?
>     >
>     > Reading all those migration strategies from windows to linux might
>     help
>     > too.
>     >
>     > As for the second question: yes you can _access_ your GIS data over
>     > the web, see, e.g. MapServer. With some PyWPS magic is possible to
>     > even process some data with GRASS over the web.
>     >
>     > For the third, with a little help from GDAL/OGR, it may be possible to
>     > migrate your data, but that I'll leave to more seasoned people here.
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     You can find some useful tips on this page [1]. At the bottom of it,
>     there are
>     some informations about ArcGIS/Grass migration.
> 
>     Hope this help,
> 
>     Y.
>     [1] http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/GRASS_migration_hints
> 
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