I wouldn’t think any of our NRM clients (including the GIS staff) would think that GRID means they are going backwards. GRID is designed as an easy to use online GIS for the NRM community, and most of the users we work with don’t worry too much about symbolisation details, which I suspect is why it was never on the (NRM community led) design or roadmap in the first place. But it came up in the first community roadmap session, and we sought out funding, and built it. I think that’s pretty responsive.

There’s heaps of other benefits to the clients that use GRID apart from these sorts of upgrades. And for those that are more “power users” (like you), we do pair them with QGIS and have been doing so for years, along with our NRM specific training course. More news on that to come as we’re about to shake up that training pretty significantly 🙂

Great to hear from you!

Piers

While I am sure the NRM groups will appreciate symbolise by feature, it’s no big deal in GIS software. Have NRM groups actually gone backwards in GIS by taking up with GRID? Why aren’t we just giving them better mapping capacity with QGIS?

cheers