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| Subject: | Alternatives (was: [gislist] ArcGIS 9 - recommend postponing
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| Date: |
06/01/2004 11:50:01 AM |
| From: |
Sonny Parafina |
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I've been playing with JUMP (http://www.jump-project.org/) the past few
weeks and its great for developing your own spatial applications. It
reminds me a lot of ArcView 2.1 when Avenue was first released because it
gave users a platform that they could customize and deploy (kudos to Charlie
Frye and the AV 2-3x development team for their efforts). It has the
simplicity and extensibility of the the ArcView 3.x, but in a modern
programming language (java). This is something the GIS application
developer community can build on. Best of all, its open source.
sonny
-----Original Message-----
From: gislist-bounces@lists.thinkburst.com
[mailto:gislist-bounces@lists.thinkburst.com]On Behalf Of Martin du
Saire
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 11:02 AM
To: gislist@lists.thinkburst.com
Subject: Re: [gislist] ArcGIS 9 - recommend postponing installation
Since the question of alternatives to ESRI has come up... I recently
dabbled in GIS for a month or two using GRASS5.0, mainly because I was
working on a one-time mini project (nothing particularly sophisticated),
and it didn't make sense to invest in Arc-something at the time.
What does the GIS community think of GRASS? Is it worth the steep learning
curve or should I scrap it and go ESRI, the next time I need some maps?
Just wondering.
Martin
At 08:44 AM 6/1/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>
>On the flip side, you would also like to think thaqt users such as
>yourself would realize that there are far better alternatives, with more
>advanced technologies, easier to use, and much, much cheaper in cost. I
>am still bewildered as to why folks invest in ESRI, other than an excuse
>like "that's what everyone else seems to use"
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>Well, before the next person jusmps off a cliff, consider Maptitude ($495
>which includes a geocoder) or TransCad (base TransCAD is $2,995 and far
>exceed the power of Arc whateverer...). Heck, even at the risk of waking
>the dead, there's Manifold at something like $300 (which does not include
>a geocoder). Not to mention several other GIS packages.
>
>Comparing ESRI to Microsoft is a misnomer. Very few options for PC
>operating systems. Quite a few options for GIS software.
>
>I dunno, maybe folks just enjoy standing over a toilet, watching their
>money go down the drain...
>
>Bob
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