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QGIS 4.0

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Re: QGIS 4.0

#11

Post by hern42 »

qgis is the best gis software ever... i use it weekly, almost daily.

my next move would be to learn how to make my own plugins.

ps: i'm a forester, fwiw :)

Re: QGIS 4.0

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Post by hern42 »

atoav wrote: post #3

QGIS is great. One of the truly good open source projects. I used it to successfully extract 3D height data for the mountains next to my hometown. This was not an easy task since the miuntains are on a national border and I had to combine height data from two national sources. It still worked out perfectly fine.

in france the lidar collection of data is almost entirely done, we can get numerical model of the terrain and tree heights, it's awesome in qgis!

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#13

Post by boredemployee »

Funny that this is on the front page of HN. I’m currently attending a 3 day in person immersive course at a university. For what applications are you guys using it for? Curious about the potential

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Post by foobarbecue »

boredemployee wrote: post #13

Funny that this is on the front page of HN. I’m currently attending a 3 day in person immersive course at a university. For what applications are you guys using it for? Curious about the potential

I used it to write papers about glaciovolcanism early in my career. Later, I used it to study caves on the Moon.

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Post by tomtom1337 »

boredemployee wrote: post #13

Funny that this is on the front page of HN. I’m currently attending a 3 day in person immersive course at a university. For what applications are you guys using it for? Curious about the potential

I used it to map out storage locations and refill stations at our online grocery picking stations, then export it to read in using geopandas in order to calculate the shortest distances between all locations!

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Post by foobarbecue »

gehsty wrote: post #9

Another project that makes me want an equivalent for 2D or 3D CAD! CAD is missing a QGIS or Blender… Congrats to QGIS team, looking forward to native apple silicon support

I believe in freecad! It's not there yet, but the latest release is a lot of progress!

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Post by jyoung789 »

hern42 wrote: post #11

qgis is the best gis software ever... i use it weekly, almost daily. my next move would be to learn how to make my own plugins. ps: i'm a forester, fwiw :)

Also in forestry.

Recently I explained to a student that Arc Pro is kind of like the Disney of GIS software. It’s powerful and colorful and very well known, but if you try and do things it doesn’t like, you’re going to have a bad time.

QGIS is my daily driver. It’s so much lighter and so much less bloat, it’s just wildly more efficient. These days I pretty much use Arc for machine learning features.

Re: QGIS 4.0

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Post by null_deref »

boredemployee wrote: post #13

Funny that this is on the front page of HN. I’m currently attending a 3 day in person immersive course at a university. For what applications are you guys using it for? Curious about the potential

I used it to examine results of objects a model detected out of an aerial images
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