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you mistake "lockin" for competition. GIS will always be niche. There is no reason not to use standards for GIS, and open source has a place in the long term.
by mistrial9 3y ago
you mistake "lockin" for competition. GIS will always be niche. There is no reason not to use standards for GIS, and open source has a place in the long term.
- cyanydeez 3y agothe point is ArcGIS simply as first right of refusal for almost any significant workflow. certainly GIS outside of this is valuable but it's within a specific project specific world that it's a component of and not the central hub
- greenie_beans 3y agomaybe people are trying to build a better alternative to arcgis? and to do this, maybe you start with a simple app first? and perhaps these people are also experts in gis? crazy to think about
- cyanydeez 3y agooh I agree, I run QGIS and Postgresql with PostGIS. I switched my entire work flow out of ArcGIS in 2016 because ArcGIS Pro was heading to LaLa land with it's online subscription garbage. But, my point is: If you're goin gto compete with ArcGIS, it's going to come from the spokes to the hub, and not from the hub to the spokes. That is, you need a killer app for a very specific work flow and go from there into a ecosystem. Without a "killer app", trying to build a separate hub and market that as-is just won't sell.
- everybodyknows 3y agoCan you point to a few successful worked examples of "spokes-to-hub"?
- cyanydeez 3y agowell, Google was a search engine. Facebook was a college phone book. Electron was propelled by multiple killerapp, initially by GitHub as Atom. it wasn't originally a standalone. ArcGIS was also pretty niche until it gained the user base.