[Qgis-user] Local Government for QGIS

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi Micha,

That is interesting - we invested a lot in the DXF export capabilities 
of QGIS. Once this is finished I am pretty sure we will also look to 
improve the situation regarding the import.

Do you think import of DXF is enough or do we also need DWG support? If 
so, the best bet would probably be the Teigha library from the Open 
Design Alliance (https://www.opendesign.com/the_oda_platform/Teigha), 
which isn't available for free - but it is the library most other GIS 
(eg. ESRI, Intergraph) and CAD (eg. Bentley, Bricscad, etc.) are using. 
We would have to pay a membership fee, but it allows us to redistribute 
the library with the software. Membership in the consortium is 
affordable in my opinion.

What are your thoughts on this? Would you also be available to help with 
a crowd-funding effort? Do you see options besides Teigha?

Andreas

On 15.06.2015 08:57, Micha Silver wrote:
>
>
> On 06/15/2015 09:23 AM, Bernhard Ströbl wrote:
>> Hi Joseph,
>>
>> could you elaborate why "it would be unrealistic to say we
>> could ever be a 100% QGIS"? I am curious because I lost contact with 
>> ESRI products a couple years ago.
>>
>
> From our point of view, we need support for dwg. That side of vendor 
> lock-in is, unfortunately, even stronger that the ties to ESRI. So we 
> stay with Arc* not because of the GIS capabilites, but more or less 
> only because of the ability to read Autocad plans and surveys.
>
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