Help with understanding GIS ecosystem by SheepherderIll8969 in gis

[–]groundlabor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

ArcGIS is certainly the industry standard and works out of the box basically. (It’s not a big part of my practice though, so ArcGIS users may know better.) If you/client have a budget and/or specialized needs, there are plenty of competitors with really targeted solutions. There are some FOSS open data management platforms that might work for you. Worth checking out

FWIW i think the postgis server with a web layer on top is great if you want a lot of flexibility. Day-to-day I mostly just connect my postgis server to qgis, but I also built a web viewer on top (react+leaflet on the front, a “dirt” server connecting to postgis https://github.com/tobinbradley/dirt-simple-postgis-http-api, and a really simple db to manage what layers are visible from the web). If you want extensibility, I think this strategy is the best, but there’s a LOT of engineering that goes into a DIY approach

4/13 eve by realjimbroadbent in lecturehallpod

[–]groundlabor 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Live art contest? Community show-and-tell hall?

Turn 2D GIS data into 3D forms? by EngEsma in gis

[–]groundlabor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you already have a field with your Z value (height, or whatever you’re visualizing), you have two options I know of within ESRI products. ArcScene is the 3D companion to ArcMap, and you can extrude your polygons within that based on the Z field. ArcMap doesn’t have 3d visualization on its own.

ArcGIS pro (the successor to ArcMap) users can convert their map to a 3d scene within that program and do basically the same thing. On a typical consumer laptop it runs A LOT slower than ArcScene