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.
- Communist Capi ☭ 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈 ( @mossy_capivara@midwest.social ) English11•11 months ago
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
Yeah thats an entirely different thing. My GPU is weird and virt-manager doesnt work, while OpenGL enabled VMs are nice and smooth but had other problems with the correct viewer and all…
Asked ChatGPT for every damn parameter or viewer, user virt-viewer, remote-viewer, VNC, some GTK viewer.
- Communist Capi ☭ 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈 ( @mossy_capivara@midwest.social ) English1•11 months ago
I don’t do passthrough on my windows VM, since I’m not doing 3D work it still works with qxl
- aname ( @lauha@lemmy.one ) 1•11 months ago
Why is qemu more usable?
- ISOmorph ( @ISOmorph@feddit.de ) 2•11 months ago
Because of GPU passthrough
- 5714 ( @5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 8•11 months ago
ESRI, the Microsoft or Adobe of Cartography. It’s a shame that public authorities get convinced to pay double.
- unomar ( @unomar@midwest.social ) English8•11 months ago
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.
Yes they suck for sure. Its just better to use currently as I dont have to recreate everything, as we pretty much sit there and get a GUI training lol
- Gamma ( @GammaGames@beehaw.org ) English7•11 months ago
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.
- Gamma ( @GammaGames@beehaw.org ) English2•11 months ago
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
- Beanson ( @beanson@lemmy.ml ) 2•11 months ago
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
- centof ( @centof@lemm.ee ) English3•11 months ago
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
- centof ( @centof@lemm.ee ) English2•11 months ago
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.
- rhythmisaprancer ( @rhythmisaprancer@kbin.social ) 2•11 months ago
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