[Qgis-user] Re: New to QGIS, Best solution?

[jonathanmoules at warwickshire.gov.uk]

The paper can be accessed directly with no subscription here:
http://www.geo.uzh.ch/~sstein/manuscripts/sstein_freegitools_ecoinf2009.pdf

An interesting read. Highlights from the Conclusion:

"We report that due to the relative youth of  the eight evaluated FOS GIS 
projects, they generally tend to have less overall GIS functionality than 
proprietary high-end GIS...  However, on the positive side they all 
provide the basic GIS functions needed in LSE[Landscape Ecology]; they are 
easy to  customise; a growing number of specialised functions and plug-ins 
already exists for specific LSE applications; and there is a growing 
community of practitioners willing to freely share their ideas, code and 
expertise."




From:   Howard Y <hayamaguchi at gmail.com>
To:     qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
Date:   28/02/2012 14:51
Subject:        [Qgis-user] Re: New to QGIS, Best solution?
Sent by:        qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org



David,

Tables 2 and 3 of the following paper have some very nice comparisons of
various open source software and ArcGIS 9.3.

Steiniger, Stefan, and Geoffrey J. Hay, Free and open source geographic
information tools for landscape ecology, Ecological Informatics, Volume 4,
Issue 4, September 2009, Pages 183-195.

If you can't access their paper, contact the authors and they will send 
you
a PDF of the paper.

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