The Spheregrid is bigger and you can spend a lot more time on it.

The license board was pretty cool, but kinda generic. It would've been neat to have judges roaming the countryside and if you tried to use a technick you didn't have the license for, throw one of your characters in jail like in ffta xD But mainly it was too small. You shouldn't be able to finish the whole board in the normal course of playing the game.

Spheregrid. it was integrated with pretty much all kinda of spira.