[Qgis-user] QGIS and ArcGIS Pro

[James Wood]

I've been using ArcGIS Pro since its Beta. Randal is right. You can not run it standalone and you must have an ArcGIS Online subscription to even open it. If this is the new Desktop (which I agree that's the direction Esri is moving), those restrictions will have to go away for their user market. Not everyone has an Internet connection at the time they need to open a desktop mapping application. It has some pretty neat functionality, allows manipulation of 3D data easily, and is lightening fast with heavy Enterprise DBs. It also conforms to the Microsoft application UI, in that it has ribbons instead of menus. 

QGIS has more comparisons to the existing ArcGIS Desktop application. 

James
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> On Jun 6, 2015, at 08:57, Randal Hale <rjhale at northrivergeographic.com> wrote:
> 
> I think it would be easier to argue (and I haven't used it....yet) ArcGISPro is a throw back to the Arcview 3.x series. Multiple layouts in one session, promoted as "GIS for managers", etc. 
> 
> There are some similarities between Pro and QGIS - I think QGIS is more comparable to ArcDesktop. With development ending on Desktop (yeah I said it) I think QGIS is poised to pick up the unhappy market of people who don't want a desktop application tied to an online application (arcgisonline). Desktop GIS still has a place in the world. I think QGIS could in theory start to make a bigger impact than it has been. Of course you have the entire ESRI ecosystem of software to deal with...but that's another story. 
> 
> Randy
> 
> 
> 
>> On 06/06/2015 07:16 AM, Andreas Neumann wrote:
>> Hi David,
>> 
>> They are both GIS ;-) One costs tons of money, the other one is free.
>> 
>> What exactly are you asking? What do you want to know?
>> 
>> Andreas
>> 
>>> On 05.06.2015 18:19, Chrest, David wrote:
>>> Anybody happen to notice any similarities between QGIS and ArcGIS Pro?
>>>  
>>> David
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