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There's probably a use case / audience for this, but it's a child's toy compared to stuff like ArcGIS. This is not taking on ESRI at all. $20m is also not that
by kabes 4y ago
There's probably a use case / audience for this, but it's a child's toy compared to stuff like ArcGIS. This is not taking on ESRI at all.
$20m is also not that much, mapbox raised 10x that amount and still struggles to find customers.
- criddell 4y agoCould it be a case of not taking on ESRI at the high end, but instead going for the low end that likely has a lot more potential customers?
- a-walker 4y agoI'd imagine the audiences are quite different in their needs. We focus on the real estate of data centers and I think see multiple angles. We have sales people and analysts that just need to make a basic map, call out some data points, and make it look good. Feels like Felt is a great tool for that. We have larger needs where we need to do more complex analysis and visualize the relationships of larger data sets geographically - that's what we're looking to ArcGIS for. It's been a bit of a search to find an affordable tool for the first use case and am glad to see someone in the space doing it.
- thex10 4y agoI think that's spot on. Curious, is there anything else about your needs pushing you towards ArcGIS rather than, say, QGIS?