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<p>Markus,</p>
<p>Imho, especially at a university you shouldn't teach specific
software at all. Teach the students spatial thinking, generic
geospatial tools and how (and why!) they work, knowing how to
tackle a problem with (any) GIS, and leave the software choice
open to the students, where you as a teacher can can offer to help
them in two or even three different specific brands.</p>
<p>Any university that prescribes specific software where more then
one (good) option is available should be ashamed of itself. Think
of it as a Car University that only teaches Ford-specific things.
No matter how you look at it, that is bad. Even if they would
promote QGIS or Open Source GIS as a whole that way, it would
still be bad because you would not be tought about alternatives.
Well, maybe that's one for the future ;-). <br>
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<p>Okay, one exception maybe: if the training includes writing new
plugins or other extras to an existing software project. In that
case, prescribing to build that for that specific project seems
fine to me. but if it's about <b>using </b>GIS, ah well. Think
I've made my point clear enough.<br>
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<p>So, maybe I'm pushing a bit away from the choice between Arc and
Q, but you might consider the case of doing (at least) both.<br>
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<p>Erik.</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Op 15-12-2016 om 20:07 schreef Markus
Weidenbach:<br>
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Dear List,<br>
<br>
I was asked to give a 5 days international GIS training course at
the university and proposed to do it with QGIS. The program leader
finally insisted on doing it with ArcGIS arguing that the
students had better chances to find a job knowing ArcGIS rather
than QGIS. This argumentation does not reflect my long
professional experience as a GIS consultant at all!<br>
But how can I proof that knowing QGIS is the better choice for
young GIS professionals than ArcGIS (or at least that both systems
are equally suited)? <br>
Does anybody know any official numbers of GIS users worldwide or
on the worldwide application of QGIS over ArcGIS?<br>
<br>
I know the Master thesis from Boku Vienna (<a
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://geoobserver.wordpress.com/2016/02/09/arcgis-vs-qgis/">https://geoobserver.wordpress.com/2016/02/09/arcgis-vs-qgis/</a>)
but it is focused on a technical comparison of both systems only.<br>
Also the link <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.g2crowd.com/grid_report/documents/gis-winter-2016-report">https://www.g2crowd.com/grid_report/documents/gis-winter-2016-report</a>
is not really helpful because it is based on some 40 reviews only
and therefore not representative.<br>
I really need to know some proven facts on the number of global
QGIS users and renown companies using QGIS worldwide.<br>
<br>
Thanks for your help in advance,<br>
Markus<br>
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