[Qgis-user] Local Government for QGIS
Andreas Neumann
a.neumann at carto.net
Mon Jun 15 00:28:57 PDT 2015
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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