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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] ArcINFO |
| Date: |
01/15/2004 01:30:01 AM |
| From: |
bader nader |
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hi all
i think you are talking about what all ArcGIS user
feel , beside the fast chaining in GIS concepts
between 7 , 8 and now 9 , will make alot of conflict
for GIS user.
since when we were able to master arc info 7 .. 8
appears with totally different concepts and GOD now
what we will see in 9 . beside that ESRI training
courses are very expensive not only the software
i like ESRI software but i think that they should help
us in the prices and technology change
Regards,
--- GISex* Technologies <giskksharma@yahoo.com> wrote:
> You are right in your ownway, there's no alternative
> as on today. or go back to primitive way of hand
> drawn GIS?
>
> "GIS (IPS)" <ipsgis@mto.co.za> wrote:Hi All,
>
> Let's rock the apple cart a bit. Before I do this, I
> need to ask the people
> responding to this mail to keep objective in terms
> of software, specifically
> in not trying to promote certain GIS software.
>
> We work with corporate, mid-sized and small
> companies as well as
> individuals. We've been using ArcINFO for years when
> we were still part of
> a larger company (who could easily afford the
> software), but now we have to
> look after ourselves and rely on the bigger
> companies to support the
> privilege for them to have access to ArcINFO. We all
> know what they charge
> for the software and maintenance, but in the end is
> it worth it? Is the
> ability to be able to edit and create Geodatabases
> really worth that much?
> Currently I see more editing abilities with
> extensions (on ArcScripts) for
> shapefiles than Geodatabases. Without going
> overboard with advertising the
> software, what other alternatives have we got?
> Something reliable and yet
> something we can use for our bigger clients
> (specifically something we can
> connect to Oracle and run the spatial data off it,
> as in the case of the
> Geodatabase).
>
> Just a comment: Something which really annoyed us is
> the fact that we had
> to pay maintanance for ArcGIS 8.x while they sorted
> out the bugs and now
> only it seems that version 9 will be the "official"
> release. We had to work
> with coverages from our old database and couldn't
> edit it without having to
> go to the workstation module. What's the new
> interface for then...just an
> appetiser until you get 8.3 or 9 where you can edit
> the Geodatabase and give
> it topology? For a country like South Africa it's
> not easy to pay the
> amount of money which ESRI's always asking for
> software (have you seen what
> the extensions cost?).
>
> I'd really like your honest opinions, 'cause it
> really feels as if ESRI is
> becoming a second MicroSoft.
>
> ciao
>
> Dean Carstens
> AfriGIS Environmental Solutions
> George
> South Africa
> Tel: +27-44-8015017
> Fax: +27-44-8015031
> Mail: ipsgis@mto.co.za or
> dean@envirogis.co.za
> Web: www.envirogis.co.za
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