[OSGeo-Discuss] Paper of interest: Evaluating Open Source GIS for Libraries

[Markus Neteler]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Charlie Schweik
<cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu> wrote:
> I stumbled across this article today and thought others might be interested
> to know it exists. The citation is:
>
> Francis P. Donnelly, (2010) "Evaluating open source GIS for libraries",
> Library Hi Tech, Vol. 28 Iss: 1, pp.131 - 151


Stefan commented a bit on this in the Edu list - esp. to keep in mind that
the study is based on the state of 2008:

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 12:13 AM, Stefan Steiniger <sstein at geo.uzh.ch> wrote:
> Hei all,
>
> I just read the article below and found it really interesting. It compares
> uDig, MapWindow, gvSIG, GRASS, QGIS, OpenJUMP with ArcGIS, having a focus on
> basic use (i.e. creating a thematic map from existing data:
>
> http://gothos.info/resource_files/fpd_libhitech_foss_gis_march2010.pdf
>
> Title: Evaluating open source GIS for libraries
> Author(s): Francis P. Donnelly
> Journal: Library Hi Tech
> Year: 2010 Volume: 28 Issue: 1 Page: 131 – 151
> ISSN: 0737-8831
> DOI: 10.1108/07378831011026742
> Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
>
> I think the article shows quite well where is still room for improvements to
> be more attractive to GIS beginners, or people from other (non-earth)
> sciences.
>
> Though.. some of the issues may be resolved by now as I think he did the
> evaluation in 2008 - see his blog entry:
> http://gothos.info/?p=458
>
> cheers,
> stefan
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So some things may look better nowadays :)

Markus