[ale] Just Announced - GIS Mapping Workshops in Georgia

[Jim Kinney]

I tried qgis on the files wifey had from school. no luck. Couldn't get
the arcgis reader to run under wine either. I don't think they were
shapefile format. older. It's been 5+ years now.

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote:
> Jim Kinney wrote:
>> It will be a great day when ESRI uses an open standard for their file
>> format so ArcGIS can be used to produce an output file that doesn't
>> require a closed, proprietary product to review. As slick of a tool as
>> ESRI make, my wife was furious that her class project was going to be
>> essentially lost to her permanently once class was over unless we fork
>> out $$$ for ArcGIS AND $ for a Microsoft license. So she has only a
>> PDF we managed to generate using opensource print to pdf tools.
>>
>> At least a freely available ArcGIS reader that runs on Linux, Mac and
>> Windows would be an improvement. Maybe an ArcGIS-lite with a maximum
>> layer count of say - 10 - and a maximum number of specified
>> coordinates of say - 100 all at a cost under $100.
>>
>> In the meantime, GIS-GRASS, PostGIS and other freed tool chains get used here.
>>
>
> The last time I worked with someone using ArcGIS, they sent me
> shapefiles. [0] I had no trouble viewing them using QGIS or working with
> them using utilities from mapserver and gdal.
>
> [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapefile
>
> All the best,
> Brian Pitts
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