[Geomedia-l] GeoMedia Pro versu ArcANYTHING

[NIELSEN Chad M]

Jim,

I've been working with both ESRI and Geomedia products for years, and it
has been my experience that both softwares pretty much suck. They both
have their good points, of course, but they have their bad points as
well. But to say, that one is "trash" or "crap" and the other is just
wonderful (or at least "getting there"), seems to me biased and
uninformed. It is also a matter of personal preference, since I find
Geomedia to be a "pain to use" for a lot of tasks that seem to me to be
a lot simpler to accomplish in ArcGIS, including "projection stuff".

And if you are installing ArcGIS just to read and convert GDB's wouldn't
it make more sense to buy FME instead? If you obviously hate ArcGIS so
much, my suggestion is that you don't use it, and stop complaining about
it. And if you still must complain about it you might want to take it to
an ESRI or general GIS discussion list, rather than preach to the choir.


Chad Nielsen


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Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 5:13 AM
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Subject: [Geomedia-l] GeoMedia Pro versu ArcANYTHING


Just wanted to let folks know that ArcTRASH is still a pain to use for
just about anything.

I'm working for the National Guard here in Washington DC and have
installed ArcView 9.1 due to needing to convert ESRI's geodatabase
format to SHP so I can bring it into GeoMedia.

You think InterGraph has poor documentation, try ESRI.  They explain
what the function does but it doesnt even come close to telling you how
to use it!  Took me about an hour or so to figure out how to convert the
data.  Also, dont even think about trying to do projection stuff.  Talk
about being in the dark ages....

Add those simple tasks to stuff that is more complex and you will
understand that GeoMedia Pro is a better platform.  Granted, layout is
still better in ArcTrash, but we are getting there.  Also, remember, if
you want to use a real database, you STILL have to have that crap
middleware ArcSDE....let's drive the price up by $14,000 why dont we?

All I'm saying is that if you are in a shop that is being forced to go
ESRI, you have many, many reasons to stay the way you are.

The one thing that kills me is that it's all about the DATA!!!  If your
data is clean, what the hell does it matter what your front-end is?  It
seems that the folks that control the purse have no idea about that, do
they?

Jim Haffly
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