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One of the coolest things to do in QGIS is to add a layer from Postgres (PostGIS) directly and just plot an entire table as a layer, live. It’s made for some really streamlined analysis.
Is there a web version?
If you are in an enterprise setting and you currently evaluate ArcGIS vs QGIS, pick QGIS and thank me later. ArcGIS Enterprise is a piece of software that feels straight out of the 90s and has no native linux binary (can be started with wine). It is expensive as hell and resource hungry.
If you are in an enterprise setting and you currently evaluate ArcGIS vs QGIS, pick QGIS and thank me later. ArcGIS Enterprise is a piece of software that feels straight out of the 90s and has no native linux binary (can be started with wine). It is expensive as hell and resource hungry.
Uh, that is demonstrably not true. ArcGIS Enterprise (Portal, hosting servers, datastore, geoevent) all also run on Linux. Now where ArcGIS enterprise succeeds is being in an actual enterprise (thousands of users), having groups collaborate, data control, and more. None of the enterprise-y bits exist. And QGis is more akin to ArcGIS Pro, not Enterprise. Now, yes, it is definitely resource hungry. And also, if you adm…
I'm not saying that it can't run in Linux, I'm saying there is no native binary for Linux.
They have bash scripts that starts the windows executables in wine.
You can see that when you read the scripts or in htop.
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We are running mapserver in production in the cloud (AWS lambda) to visualize lots of different data using WMS. We're also doing lots of processing using GDAL in the cloud as well. Compared to ESRI it's amazingly cost effective even considering Amazon's high prices.
nice. If you aren't already familiar, you might be interested in this platform for Dutch geospatial data: https://github.com/PDOK . They use mapserver on the cloud at massive scale, and all of their infra is open.
If you are in an enterprise setting and you currently evaluate ArcGIS vs QGIS, pick QGIS and thank me later. ArcGIS Enterprise is a piece of software that feels straight out of the 90s and has no native linux binary (can be started with wine). It is expensive as hell and resource hungry.
No one doing serious cartography uses qgis. Also geostatatistics like kriging is fully supported and easy to use in ArcGis
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I don't think the comparison is quite apt, because while LibreOffice has no support for collaborative workflows (short of error-prone shared drives), QGIS can connect to quite a few geospatial databases, with third parties offering plugins for their own cloud platforms. It would be nice to have better support for browser-based sharing and editing, but the desktop-based parts are there already.
That’s an important point. The collaboration model is more complex in GIS because it’s not just documents (maps and map projects) but the underlying data is coming from databases that are independently editable. The comparison still works in some ways though, because ArcGIS is selling you both the software (ArcGIS Pro, Map Viewer, Field Maps, etc) and the backing services (hosted feature services, basemaps, locators,…
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I don't think the comparison is quite apt, because while LibreOffice has no support for collaborative workflows (short of error-prone shared drives), QGIS can connect to quite a few geospatial databases, with third parties offering plugins for their own cloud platforms. It would be nice to have better support for browser-based sharing and editing, but the desktop-based parts are there already.
That’s an important point. The collaboration model is more complex in GIS because it’s not just documents (maps and map projects) but the underlying data is coming from databases that are independently editable. The comparison still works in some ways though, because ArcGIS is selling you both the software (ArcGIS Pro, Map Viewer, Field Maps, etc) and the backing services (hosted feature services, basemaps, locators,…
Theres other complexity too, like 'how to avoid silent failures in ArcGIS Pro and Hosting Server'.
Case in point: say you use amazon RDS. URL for that object is name.customerID.environment.amazonrds.com . Its a long URL. Now you go into hostingServer/ArcGIS/manager and go set this as a data source. You can validate the data source and everything's fine...
Until your analysts add projects in RDS and go past some secret legacy arbitrary length of DNS+path. And if you do? Things will silently break, data won't come into ArcGIS Pro right. Anomalous errors.
Now, if you change the RDS DNS name to an IP address, all those problems go away! Everything's fixed, analysts are happy, and none are the wiser.
Until, Amazon does maintenance on your RDS, changing your IP address. Then, your environment then breaks for no good reason, and you have to be keenly aware to go to server manager and MANUALLY rerun data store check.
And no, ArcGIS monitor can't do this.
And... Dont even start me on 80070035. That "premium" support ticket was rotting for 5 weeks, until I ran into an engineer on LinkedIN, who solved it in 30 seconds.