tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564691284178136952.post9152627822399949255..comments2023-07-15T05:31:41.242-07:00Comments on Spatial Intelligence: ArcGIS Server vs. Mapserver/PostGISGezJameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12971587546555965420noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564691284178136952.post-11732324687156377522013-12-04T23:51:27.027-08:002013-12-04T23:51:27.027-08:00And the conclusion is: dump ESRI for free to use P...And the conclusion is: dump ESRI for free to use PostGIS and other geospatial-oriented open sources :)<br />Ah... but corporates are so used to salesmen visiting their office, instead of spending time searching for open sources.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564691284178136952.post-42273012913844010672013-07-21T10:25:45.174-07:002013-07-21T10:25:45.174-07:00thanks for nice information about comparison of Ar...<a href="http://stringpool.com" rel="nofollow">thanks for nice information about comparison of ArcGIS and Mapserver/PostGIS</a>jameshttp://stringpool.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564691284178136952.post-23244415374341232902013-06-28T06:13:53.224-07:002013-06-28T06:13:53.224-07:00I have to agree with Gabriel 200%. We have been de...I have to agree with Gabriel 200%. We have been developing a massive application mounted on ESRI for the past two years, which was not my choosing as a GIS server platform. Migration to 10.1 was a major headache. It seems like the ESRI development team cannot live without a myriad useless components that should be integrated into the main app and come out-of-the box, as soon as they got rid of (the necessity for) one (namely, ArcSDE), they added another (namely, IIS Adaptor). They should receive a medal for creativity of the inexplicable ways in which their components fail to work with each other... I'm glad the ordeal is over, although I have only a slight shimmer of hope we will start to migrate to open-source components in the future.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05075402260778538992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564691284178136952.post-3078398930920780812009-09-26T04:45:19.018-07:002009-09-26T04:45:19.018-07:00ArcGIS have the wonders and the worst of GIS softw...ArcGIS have the wonders and the worst of GIS software. It sounds crazy that a software/system like ArcGIS can have in a same package very powerful and sophisticate tools joined with tremendously bad implementations like "not all spatial operations are supported for GDB" or "this operation can be performed for shapefiles, but not for GBD" or the other for coverages but not for GBD and so on. Why I need different tools for performing same operations in different datastores? ( Hey ESRI, polymorphism was invented some years before!!). Dataset Management also became so complicate because a lot of operation that have to be implemented at server side like spatial constraints (they call new topology) are implemented at client side (ridiculous). I know, since ArcInfo 3.0 modularization was never a Esri strong and my experience with ESRI software said, they do not know how to work in complex programming environment, they do not know to much about modularization and they do not know how coordinate their programming teams as other OS projects do know.Gabriel Anoreply@blogger.com