I remember, 10 to twenty years ago, when GIS was still a huge part of my job. QGIS then went from being the "cheap opensource contender" to being my main tool... How much better it was than the previous ones...
QGIS 4.0
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#22qgis 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 :)
I've worked with developing plugins for QGIS. It's just Python and PyQT, along with a bunch of things provided by QGIS itself. Overall a very pleasant experience, and their docs are pretty good too.
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#23qgis 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.
> if you try and do things it doesn’t like, you’re going to have a bad time.
Also that there's the 'Esri' way of doing things, and the 'platform independent' (more-or-less) way of doing things which do not play well with 'Esri-isms'.
Esri does have some really nice enterprise components though; I haven't yet found a remotely user-friendly open-source equivalent to Workflow Manager Server or Data Interop., or an as-polished ArcGIS Portal yet, though I constantly keep a look out.
QField is getting better and better, too. I wish I knew C++ well enough to help develop it further.
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#24Funny 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
Make maps of distant relatives' locations for a genealogy project
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#25Qgis my beloved used it during my Masters extensively and its great. Only ever problem i had was that it did not support circular maps. Or rather non rectangular map borders. So i had to use some arcane magic in Julia to make those.
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#26Funny 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
Viewing a GPX file that I also view on Osmand (Android). QGIS can be configured to display the POI colors by `type` ("restaurant" is red, etc). Combined with a handrolled script which adds Osmand's non-standard markup, I am granted the superpower of... being able to distinguish between points on both mobile and desktop.
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#27QGIS has been a key piece of my career for the past 10 years. This year I'm launching a SaaS where QGIS is, again, the most fundamental piece. I'm only hoping everything goes right so I can contribute back to this project what It deserves. One of the big OSS stars. Thanks QGIS team.
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#28Another 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!
When I finally Get Around To™ learning CAD, I'll definitely invest my time in FreeCAD.
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#29qgis 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 :)
ooo what plugins does a forester need? (just curious cuz forestry is an interest of mine)
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#30Another 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 don't know about Blender, but for QGIS I think open or at least well known formats are what gave it a chance to compete against ArcGIS.
For CAD, I think that an strong open format would make things much more easy for FOSS CAD software. I can see this starting happening with BIM.