{"id":8052,"date":"2019-02-08T00:12:55","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T23:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sigterritoires.fr\/?p=8052"},"modified":"2019-02-08T06:16:38","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T05:16:38","slug":"mapwindows-the-rising-challenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sigterritoires.fr\/index.php\/en\/mapwindows-the-rising-challenger\/","title":{"rendered":"MapWindows &#8211; the rising challenger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Its history\u2026<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MapWindows has different origins from other OpenSource GIS projects . Firstly, the project dates back to 1998, at the WaterResearch Laboratory of Utah (USA). Originally the goal of the project team was not to develop an office GIS, but to develop a library of programs for the manipulation of geographical data in programs independent from any GIS software . At that time MapWinGIS came into existence as ActiveX control (OCX) as a programming library in the most popular programming languages (VB, C, etc.). <br>\nA few years later, the Idaho State University developed MapWindows GIS, a ready to use software, employing the OCX programs and developing a new library , Dot Spatial, which can be used when programming with C # and .NET. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Features<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This atypical evolution makes MapWindows is slightly less well equipped &nbsp;in desktop interface features compared to its direct competitors (QGis, gvSIG ), but allows developments much more powerful and fast. <br>\nTherefore, it is a tool for relatively simple projects which do not involve advanced GIS functions or for projects where some features will have to be developed. Also, it can be a complementary\nproduct to the Office GIS ( OpenSource or editor) for developing the automation tasks or business modules . <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Advantages<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You do not have to be an experienced programmer to develop tools with Dot Space, and regarding\nthis aspect, MapWindows has a sensitive lead ahead of its competitors , especially now that a great part of GIS users are questioning the problem of automation and optimization of GIS data management procedures. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its history\u2026 MapWindows has different origins from other OpenSource GIS projects . Firstly, the project dates back to 1998, at the WaterResearch Laboratory of Utah (USA). Originally the goal of the project team was not to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6XU0A-25S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sigterritoires.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sigterritoires.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sigterritoires.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sigterritoires.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sigterritoires.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sigterritoires.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sigterritoires.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sigterritoires.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sigterritoires.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}