[Qgis-user] Local Government for QGIS

[Randal Hale]

If I could chip in - one of my clients is a large industrial client. 
They have two sides of their "mapping" group - Autocad and ESRI. Then I 
show up : ).

They use the DWG format - in fact most of my clients that have autocad 
capability will send me DWG and when I go "hey could you convert that to 
dxf" there is a general groan. So - I pop open arcgis and convert. Now 
that I think about it I've never tried converting data from dwg to shape 
or back to dwg with gdal. I don't know if that is even possible (I need 
to look). TN's department of Transportation runs a healthy mix of 
ESRI/AutoCAD/Microstation (I think) but as far as a know no open source 
anything. I get the question of "What about DWG?" more than I care to 
mention.

Having DWG capabilites would be a huge gain for QGIS (I think).

Anyway - my unsolicited .02 cents worth.

Randy

On 06/15/2015 03:28 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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