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docs: further info about commcare as a competitor
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spwoodcock committed Nov 12, 2024
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- **ArcGIS Survey123**: proprietary / paid, more appropriate for our use case
over ArcGIS Field Maps. However, not an option due to it's closed nature.

- **CommCare**: technically open-source, developed by Dimagi, but built in such
a way to make it quite difficult to self-host. Very good at collection of
"longitudinal data" (data over time), which ODK has only recently began to
address with Entities. However the key thing missing here is that it's not
well set up to handle geospatial data. It is possible to collect a GPS point
of users in the field, but not possible to select geometries to map. Despite
this we will definitely look for opportunities to learn from / collaborate
- **CommCare**: open-source, developed by Dimagi, and good for collecting survey
data. It does not, however, use the open XForm / XLSForm standards like ODK,
Kobo, and Ona. Very good at collection of "longitudinal data" (data over time),
which ODK has only recently began to address with Entities.
However there are two key missing features:
(1) it's not well set up to handle geospatial data. It is possible to collect a
GPS point of users in the field, but not possible to select geometries to map.
(2) it's not configured to coordinate a team of users for field mapping, but more
for individual users to map.
Despite this we will definitely look for opportunities to learn from / collaborate
into the future.

Unmaintained projects:
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