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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] ArcGIS alternates? |
| Date: |
06/01/2004 10:55:01 PM |
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GISex* Technologies |
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Many cometh and goned ESRI is world leader and furhter dominate the market... like Microsoft?? those who have choice will find alternative... anyway such crtisium shall make SERI more strong over the time,
Sean Grimland <skgstyle@yahoo.com> wrote:I think Idrisi (http://www.clarklabs.org/) will beat
ESRI for any of the raster based functions you
mentioned: raster calculator, raster to vector,
buffering, geoprocessing, georectification. It isn't
a vector based program so ArcView is better in that
regard.
my two cents...
Sean Grimland
--- Adrian Kitchingman
wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm relatively new to this list but have decided to
> start a new thread in
> relation to answers to Anthony's 'ArcGIS 9 -
> recommend postponing
> installation'. We are looking to install ArcGIS 9
> and look at any noted
> problems with interest. We are also always on the
> lookout for alternate GIS
> apps which would fulfill our purposes that ESRI is
> currently doing. So far
> we haven't been successful (hence the new thread).
> So if anyone has some
> advice or recommendations on available software that
> has the following
> functions it would be greatly appreciated.
> We are looking for the equivalent functions of ESRI
> ArcGIS 8.X:
>
> * Spatial Analyst Extension
> Raster Calculator
> Raster/Poly converter
> Raster neighbourhood stats
>
> * Geoprocessor (usual stuff)
> Union, merge, etc
>
> * Buffering
>
> * Poly Editor
>
> * Customizable (VB, Java, etc)
>
> We've assessed Manifold, TNTMips, etc but still
> haven't found a package that
> has the variety of functions and is as user friendly
> as ArcGIS (despite the
> odd bug). I'm not here to preach ESRI but so far no
> 'more affordable'
> alternatives have made the cut.
>
> I'm sure this subject has been discussed before so
> apologies if this is just
> covering old ground.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Adrian
>
>
> Adrian Kitchingman
> Sea Around Us Project
> Fisheries Centre
> University of British Columbia
>
> http://www.seaaroundus.org
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anthony Quartararo
> [mailto:ajq3@spatialnetworks.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 8:24 AM
> To: gislist@lists.geocomm.com
> Subject: [gislist] ArcGIS 9 - recommend postponing
> installation
>
>
> Dear Listers,
>
> Have had ArcGIS 9 (ArcInfo) installed for less than
> a week. After a rather
> circuitous path to getting it actually installed,
> and a quick call the ESRI
> tech support, I would have to say at this point that
> I would strongly
> recommend postponing installation or upgrading until
> ESRI cleans things up
> and re-issues the CDs. They have pulled a
> "Microsoft" on this one: the tech
> at ESRI confirmed a known issue with installation on
> a single license
> dongle [the license administrate does not record the
> machine name and so a
> secondary step of actually typing it in is
> required]. But, after having
> tried to work with a dataset that worked just fine
> under 8.x, it has crashed
> multiple times so far with 9.x with a fairly major
> application error. I
> really am tired of paying a king's ransom for the
> privilege of advanced
> beta-testing. I will be uninstalling 9.x, and
> reinstalling 8.x to keep
> working. You would also think ESRI could come up
> with a method that would
> truly "upgrade" previous installations without
> having to completely
> uninstall the older version first [in the interest
> of saving a significant
> amount of time...].
>
> ...not a happy camper..
>
> Anthony
>
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