[GRASS-user] [Fwd: [OSGeo-Discuss] Can I do the same GIS tasks with OS (as with ESRI)?]

[Wolf Bergenheim]

This question should go to the GRASS user mailinglist.

I'm not a full time GIS analyst, but so far I have not needed anything 
from ESRI that GRASS and/or other OSGeo projects can't do. Arc is 
perhaps a bit stronger on the cartography side of things, but with a bit 
of patience you can produce nice maps with GRASS.

--Wolf

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Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Can I do the same GIS tasks with OS (as with ESRI)?
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:41:17 -0600
From: Jennifer Horsman <jen at jencarta.com>
Reply-To: OSGeo Discussions <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>
To: OSGeo Discussions <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>
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<0D544207876CDA428F17DD7EA448C192BEAEFF at bailey.DOMAIN.KSNINC.PVT>

The thread that was started today with the subject "Your open source
career" got me thinking about asking a question that has been rolling
around in my head. This is pointed at those people who have experience
with ESRI products as well as OS GIS products.

I have been a long-time user of ESRI products, but I want to start my
own contract business and will not be able to afford the license for
ArcGIS/ArcInfo. So I recently set up a Linux box with GRASS installed,
but it has been over 10 years since I have used GRASS (it has probably
changed since then too!)

Does GRASS have the same analysis and display capabilities as ArcGIS? I
know this is a very general question, so perhaps another question would
be where does GRASS fall short and where does it excel in comparison to
the ESRI products?

Thanks,
Jennifer



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