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| Subject: | [gislist] GIS vs. CAD |
| Date: |
06/29/2004 09:15:01 AM |
| From: |
Ursela Jule |
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Long time lurker - first time poster...
I have been an exclusive GIS user and my department uses ESRI and it fits
our needs quite nicely - my boss (non-GIS or CAD person) has been talking
around and finding out that some others use CAD (Autodesk) - and now has
come to me wondering why we aren't. I tried to explain that we do a little
bit of spatial analysis and CAD really isn't designed for that and tried to
explain the difference between a CAD and GIS.
However I have been out of the loop on CAD, and I suspect that she's (my
boss) has been talking to an Autodesk vendor - and my knowledge of the
differences are maybe not as current as the advances in AutoCAD apparently
have been.
So I am looking at an ad here where Autodesk is saying "ESRI's approach to
GIS will only take you so far." Seems to be referring to the integration
of CAD and GIS only - but I ask you - just how close is software for CAD
(such as Autodesk products) getting to being called a GIS?
Is there a line in the sand still?
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