[Qgis-user] Local Government for QGIS

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi Micha,

Thanks again for your response. I will discuss this with the devs and 
will probably come up with a proposal, asking for some organizations to 
join the funding.

Andreas

On 15.06.2015 10:28, Micha Silver wrote:
> Hi Andreas:
>
> Thanks for your response.
> I'm quite sure that for most regional councils here, DXF would not be 
> enough. The surveyors and planners that we work with all use Autodesk 
> products. All their work is delivered in dwg, and some do not even 
> know that there is such a thing as DXF.
>
> I have not been following the Open Design Alliance lately, but 
> including that library QGIS would certainly be a quantum leap forward. 
> After Radim's success in crowd funding the implementation of GRASS 7, 
> your suggestion indeed sounds feasible.
>
> Regards,
> Micha
>
> On 6/15/2015 10:28 AM, Andreas Neumann wrote:
>> 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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