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Defining Methodology for Selecting of Most Appropriate GIS Software

Defining Methodology for Selecting of Most Appropriate GIS Software. Bashkim IDRIZI , Sali ZHAKU, Subija IZEIROSKI, Ismail KABASHI and Pal NIKOLLI. CONTENTS:. INTRODUCTION COMMERCIAL AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE National free and open source software policy in Macedonia

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Defining Methodology for Selecting of Most Appropriate GIS Software

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  1. Defining Methodology for Selecting of Most Appropriate GIS Software Bashkim IDRIZI, Sali ZHAKU, Subija IZEIROSKI, Ismail KABASHI and Pal NIKOLLI

  2. CONTENTS: • INTRODUCTION • COMMERCIAL AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE • National free and open source software policy in Macedonia • Comparative analyses between open and commercial software • COMPARATIVE ANALYSES OF SOME GIS SOFTWARE’s • Detecting of most utilized GIS platforms in Macedonia and region • Comparative analyses • - Price for purchasing a server license - Price for purchasing a desktop license - Price for regular annual upgrade of the software - Price on application development - System requirements for operating system and database types that support the • appropriate GIS software - Specification of the hardware requirements - Types of development languages ​​that support the GIS software - The type and level of supporting from the national/regional providers - Difficulties during developing a GIS applications • Selecting of most appropriate GIS software • CONCLUSIONS

  3. Process of selecting software: • In most of cases is conditioned by local trends, such as: • local tradition, • university curricula’s, • purchasing and maintenance cost, • interface language, • official and non-official software providers, • local representative’s support, • experience, • existing data formats, • national legislation, policies and standards, as well as • Global trends which have significant influence on the software usage in local level also!

  4. Thus, selecting of most appropriate software in most of cases is understood as: • process of continuing the previous data processing lines, • keeping the same format of existing data and knowledge of GIS team, • without any deep and additional analyses for most appropriate software base on many criteria and improving the methodology of data developing and processing.

  5.  The analysis methodology: • Detecting of most utilized GIS platforms in Macedonia and region • Comparative analyses between commercial and open source software • Comparative analyses between some GIS platforms, and • Defining of most appropriate GIS platform for the project.

  6. COMMERCIAL AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE Reasons for not using FOSS Conditions for migration to FOSS

  7. Positive and negative sides of using FOSS and commercial software

  8. Some special questions for comparative analyses between FOSS and commercial software

  9. Cost benefit of FOSS and commercial software

  10. By taking in account • the main objectives of the project, • GIS software providers in Macedonia, • most utilized GIS platforms in the region, • the general situation regarding to GIS in Macedonia, and • the current situation with the GIS in Macedonian organizations Comparative analyses of eight selected GIS software packages have been performed ​​based on nine criteria’s: - Price for purchasing a server license- Price for purchasing a desktop license- Price for regular annual upgrade of the software- Price on application development- System requirements for operating system and database types that support the appropriate GIS software- Specification of the hardware requirements- Types of development languages ​​that support the GIS software- The type and level of supporting from the national/regional providers - Difficulties during developing a GIS applications

  11. Our purpose is not to introduce the differences between the software packages and not to make indirect marketing for them, but to publish the methodology which has been used by our site for selecting of most appropriate GIS software package in a real project one year ago! As abbreviations have been used two codes: CS which means Commercial Software, and FOSS which means Free and Open Source Software. From the family of commercial software’s, six of them have been used for our analyses, and from FOSS family of GIS software just 2 have been used for our research. Thus, commercial software’s are designated as CS from 1 to 6 (I-CS, II-CS, … VI-CS), and FOSS from 1 to 2 (I-FOSS and II-FOSS)

  12. Thank you for your attention!

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