Date: September 8th 2015 Time: 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Location: Water Resources Operation Center 11575 Maxwell Road Alpharetta, GA 30009
…and who is going to be speaking…me. I think for all my involvement this is my first solo talk……. and what will I be doing?
Upgrade your Geographic Information System with PostGIS and QGIS
My original abstract was heavily redacted but I’m still going to use it: QGIS is a Free and Open Source Desktop GIS Project. It’s released at least once a quarter and licensed under the GPL (I’ll explain what that is if you don’t know). It works with almost every file format known (including ESRI file based geodatabases). It has an active friendly community that wants you as a member. It’s commercially supported. It’s professional grade software. Combined with PostGIS it saved my forestry client about 15,000 dollars last year on a long term timber management job. What did we do? The exact same thing you can do because this is Free and Open Source Software. The explanation of how this project happened isn’t unique to NRGS and it isn’t filled with software vendor “gotchas”. Can you use it and save money? Will it work with your commercial software environment that holds all your GIS data? Will it cause you to think differently about GIS and your community? Can you mix and match it with other commercial software and do your job? Can you use only these software packages for a Geographic Information System?
It’s short notice but show up. I’m not going to be anti-commercial software in this but I think given several conversations I’ve had over the last month I point out this software will work for your GIS setup even if you’re not “Cheap” (which seems to get thrown around a lot).
So Join me – sign up or just show up. I’ll try to sneak you in if I can!
