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

[Derek Hohls]

I found their conclusion somewhat disappointing.  


Arc/GIS was launched in 1999, and Arc/INFO (command line predecessor, equivalent to GRASS) in 1982.  GRASS also launched in 1982 and ILWIS launched in 1984, so how they can say these are "relatively young" does not make sense.  Also to keep in mind that the code-base that many of these "younger" packages build on is much older than their launch dates...  I think the "less overall GIS functionality" is due to the smaller user base and number of contributers, and has nothing to do with age per se.


My 2c!  But I would really like to hear from others on this topic.

>>>  03/01/12 2:09 PM >>>
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 
To:     qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
Date:   28/02/2012 14:51
Subject:        [Qgis-user] Re: New to QGIS, Best solution?
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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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