First off - Manifold was upto the job and the client was delighted with the results. As someone who has used GIS technologies of all shapes and sizes for almost 20 years I have to admit that I was rather stumped by the user interface but, with patience, I was able to find all of the functionality that I needed.
Highlights for me were:
- A great price, at just USD$400
- Windows based client application
- Is able to read and write a variety of file and database formats
- Includes a host of analysis functions
- Supports several Windows scripting/programming languages
- Was not intuitive for me to use
- Help documentation not always easy to find and used unfamiliar terms
- Cartographic facilities were not bad but didn't provide fine grained control
- Some processing steps went into long loops and failed
- Exports to PDF but not to GeoPDF yet
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My friend, welcome to the Manifold hate/love users.
i think the interface is intuitive, if you assume that what you're looking for is actually easy to find, and follows standard windows app conventions (think word 2003). copy/paste, etc., its a lot easier for new users, but takes arc gis users a little while to realize how much simpler gis can be :)
there is a video from a group called gisadvisor on how to actually build an enterprise GIS with Manifold and PostGIS. I haven't seen it, but some people have said it was helpful.
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