[Qgis-user] Local Government for QGIS

Mon Jun 15 10:52:32 PDT 2015

While I can't help in the UK, Digital Mapping Solutions in Australia & New Zealand sell & support a council GIS system based on QGIS, mapserver & Postgis/SQL Server. They may be able to provide some comments?
http://www.mapsolutions.co.nz/

(I don't work for them, but do use them for our QGIS training.)

Brent Wood
      From: Chris Buckmaster <chris.buckmaster at runnymede.gov.uk>
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From: qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Andreas Neumann
Sent: 15 June 2015 10:39
To: Micha Silver; qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Local Government for QGIS    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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