[GRASSLIST:10161] Re: OGUG Presents GRASS and ARCGIS Thesis Comparison

[Radim Blazek]

Just a note, table 13

  "Display: does not offer on-the-fly projection"

On-the-fly projection of vectors is available in QGIS.


  "Map Layout: Poor; ..."

Map composer is available in QGIS.

Radim

On 2/4/06, Dave Sampson <dr.sampson at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> The Ottawa GRASS Users group is continuing hard to bring together a mass
> of GRASS resources. We have been anxiously awaiting the completion of a
> masters thesis comparing and contrasting GRASS and ArcGIS.  Other
> comparisons are hard to come by.
>
> "A thesis written by Todd Buchanan for the degree of Master of Science;
> Objective - characterize and contrast advantages and disadvantages of
> ArcGIS 9.0 and GRASS 6.0 for application involving land use
> classification analysis."
>
> Check it out in our GRASS papers area.
> http://cemml.carleton.ca:8080/OGUG/ogug-community/grass-papers/
>
> If you have some research papers, OGUG would be happy to host them. Log
> in and join the community.
>
> This document could be a great addition to a business or research case
> for using GRASS for particular purposes. And if you have comments to
> make, go ahead with the comment features.
>
> Thanks for the hard work Todd and congratulations
>
> Cheers
>
>