[udig-devel] New to open GIS, would like some descriptive differences between desktop platforms

[Jody Garnett]

Hi Matt:

The email lists are a great place to judge the strength of each of these 
operations.

Last year an online seminar was held with representatives from each of 
these projects, you may find the position papers submitted to the 
seminar an interesting read, along with some of the discussion threads.
- http://miles.asmoz.org/

Best of luck with your research,
Jody
> Hello, 
> My name is Matt Supert and I am researching information regarding Open
> Source GIS platforms. 
>
> I am researching information about implementing Open GIS platforms and I am
> looking for information that can summarize the differences between the
> general open source GIS desktop platforms that appear to be available. 
>   
The a seminar materials may provide you just this summary:
- 
http://miles.asmoz.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17&Itemid=47
> Generally there appears to be uDig, QGIS, GRASS and Open Jump as the main
> open source gis desktop platforms. I was wondering if someone could give me
> a run down in their general strengths and weaknesses. 
>   
You did miss the original "Jump", there are a couple more forks to be 
found in that direction.
> Also what is their modularity or expandability to other software platforms?
> I have researched several server side and web side open source products such
> as PostGIS, Geoserver and Mapserver. How well do the desktop clients
> integrate to those systems, and can any of those systems implement to
> traditional ERP platforms or CRM platforms such as SugarCRM, MySQL or Munis?
>   
Not sure I have heard of much integration in this direction, MySQL seems 
to lack a spatial index, so while it can hold your geometry information 
it is not often used for spatial applications
> Thanks for any help anyone can provide.
>
>
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