Has anyone done this? Its a very proprietary program lol, so I can imagine that doesnt work.
But its powerful and my Uni supports it. I am fine with just following classes on Uni PCs and then learning QGis myself, but yeah…
Are there any tricks for running “modern”, maybe DRM infested Software?
Also, how I did it was always just running executables in existing Bottles, as I dont get having a new small OS for each app. But that doesnt seem to work that well in Bottles.
ESRI, the Microsoft or Adobe of Cartography. It’s a shame that public authorities get convinced to pay double.
QGIS is a very nice piece of software, definitely worth checking out. Some of our geographers use Mapinfo (proprietary) but most use QGIS. Everyone hates ESRI.
Some of your classes might require some ESRI plugins… I would check with your teachers if it’s okay to use QGIS, they will certainly know the answer to that question.
I asked already and they said “use the Uni PCs but you can also do a presentation about QGIS”
I’ve gone that road and I’ll tell you that making a windows virtual machine is much less of a headache. I’d recommend using qemu/kvm over something like virtualbox because otherwise it won’t be very usable
Why is qemu more usable?
Because of GPU passthrough
I’ll chime in to say their “Enterprise Linux” support is (or at least WAS in 2015) merely a wine wrapper. That said, I strongly dislike ESRI and would recommend any number of open source alternatives.
Not sure what your use case is, but consider something like geojson.io if you can export the map data somehow. You might be able to do this from their interface or you might have to do browser network capturing to capture the requested data. It supports GeoJSON as well as KML, GPX, CSV, GTFS, TopoJSON formats.
Qgis has Openstreetmaps data source, but I was thinking of custom community based layers like “all wildfires in 2023” etc
I see. With the link you should be able to query a geojson file that can then be imported into geojson.io. I used Query ‘GLOBALID IS NOT null’ to get the top 50 of 2000 results. That should give you a starting piont. The first link is just a way to query the data in this link
I’m unfamilar with Qgis but I have been able to import layers into geojson.io before from arcGIS.
I tried this for the same reasons about ten years ago (college, free, etc) and found it to be essentially an insurmountable challenge. It’s a bummer since they support Linux in other ways.
Maybe it is easier now.
Hmm, could be easier and harder at the same time. DRM vs modern Wine
If you need to work with their FGDB format you can do that in newer versions of QGIS
Luckily not! Only shb or how its called.
shp? I’d recommend learning QGIS regardless, even if its ui looks like 💩
Good luck in your search!
Shapefiles or something, will work in QGIS. Yeah no way I am gonna use that proprietary cancer
Obligatory switch from shapefile link.
Unfortunately Shapefile is a proprietary format developed by ESRI. QGIS handles it just fine though no problems.
Urg… thanks! I will just have to send this to my Prof and see his reaction, weird Microsoft-Corporate-beard-lightblueshirt-dude
