[gdal-dev] 2024 GDAL Users Survey

[Daniel Evans]

Hi Howard,

>  To my eye, that means our respondent pool is strongly tilted toward
power users and developers, as I would expect a much larger mix of Windows
users.

Where has the survey been announced? I've only seen it on this list, which
is explicitly for "developers using and building GDAL/OGR", which will skew
the pool of respondents!

I'd be interested to know if there truly is a large userbase of people
using it as a command line tool on Windows. My experience is that the
barrier to entry for building and using GDAL standalone on Windows is very
high, and I rely solely on Windows Subsystem for Linux (hence I responded
as a Linux user, not Windows) or drop down to something with an installer,
like QGIS, that "Just Works".

Cheers,
Daniel

On Wed, 30 Oct 2024 at 13:25, Howard Butler via gdal-dev <
gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> All,
>
> The first ever GDAL Users Survey is now open for feedback at
> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdMXygtDb5M0Ov0KK0u2wKkev1rMqAjRdTlwMeCl7Z1TGJTLw/viewform
> The survey is an attempt to provide structured guidance for the maintenance
> program to focus its efforts in the coming year. It will close on November
> 11th. Please help us by contributing and widely circulating it.
>
> As with all surveys, it is susceptible to bias by the audience that shows
> up to answer. As of right now, there are only ~290 responses with nearly
> 70% of them saying they are Linux and OSX users. To my eye, that means our
> respondent pool is strongly tilted toward power users and developers, as I
> would expect a much larger mix of Windows users. For background, there are
> ~2500 mailing list subscribers, so please consider this a nag to go fill it
> out and help guide our efforts in the next year.
>
> Howard
>
> 🤔, I guess I'll need to work on some user validation stuff for the next
> survey...
>
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