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Enclaves and Exclaves: A tour of the world's engulfed and orphaned places

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Re: Enclaves and Exclaves: A tour of the world's engulfed and orphaned places

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Post by wodenokoto »

Arcis/Esri is upping their SEO game. Two articles on the front page on the same day!

Anyone have experience working with their software? I've been assigned a task were I have to analyze a fair amount of GIS data, and have been using Geopandas with mixed feeling.

Re: Enclaves and Exclaves: A tour of the world's engulfed and orphaned places

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Post by matkoniecz »

wodenokoto wrote: post #3

Arcis/Esri is upping their SEO game. Two articles on the front page on the same day! Anyone have experience working with their software? I've been assigned a task were I have to analyze a fair amount of GIS data, and have been using Geopandas with mixed feeling.

> Anyone have experience working with their software?

I never used it, for my purposes QGIS was good enough.

And I am willing to put up with a lot to avoid vendor lock-in. See recent story how opening old Adobe files will cause loss of colour info, unless you pay licensing fee to Pantone.

I strongly encourage the same and to consider donating some part of saved funds to QGIS, possibly earmarked for something you want.

Re: Enclaves and Exclaves: A tour of the world's engulfed and orphaned places

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Post by prepend »

wodenokoto wrote: post #3

Arcis/Esri is upping their SEO game. Two articles on the front page on the same day! Anyone have experience working with their software? I've been assigned a task were I have to analyze a fair amount of GIS data, and have been using Geopandas with mixed feeling.

They kind of remind me of SAS. Their software isn’t horrible, but it’s not cheap and their licensing is complicated and their products overlap with each other and they are constantly pushing new products that have separate licenses.

I like that the company seems really dedicated to their areas and love GIS, like this article shows, but feel kind of bad because big commercial software is in a tough place.

Re: Enclaves and Exclaves: A tour of the world's engulfed and orphaned places

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Post by vharuck »

wodenokoto wrote: post #3

Arcis/Esri is upping their SEO game. Two articles on the front page on the same day! Anyone have experience working with their software? I've been assigned a task were I have to analyze a fair amount of GIS data, and have been using Geopandas with mixed feeling.

Their GUIs aren't bad. But the Python modules they offer for scripting are bad. The old one, "arcpy", was very un-Pythonic (e.g., no class for map layers, functions just returned layer names as strings). The new package, "arcgis", is better, but the documentation is bad. And you'll still need to use arcpy for some tasks.

I haven't used QGIS yet, but I'm probably going to start tinkering with it at home.

Re: Enclaves and Exclaves: A tour of the world's engulfed and orphaned places

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Post by smitty1e »

wodenokoto wrote: post #3

Arcis/Esri is upping their SEO game. Two articles on the front page on the same day! Anyone have experience working with their software? I've been assigned a task were I have to analyze a fair amount of GIS data, and have been using Geopandas with mixed feeling.

ESRI offers quite a bit of functionality, but the licensing is notable.
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