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I had to use ArcGIS too, and while sometimes it performed well, when it didn't it was quite painful to have to deal with the local vendor to implement our features, and troubleshoot bugs in their software.
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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-po…
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 :)
ooo what plugins does a forester need? (just curious cuz forestry is an interest of mine)
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 had fun working with QGIS some years ago, connecting it to GeoServer, mapserver, importing shapefiles, and customizing a few maps. I didn't use as much as the GIS engineers I worked with, but it was definitely a great open source tool. I had to use ArcGIS too, and while sometimes it performed well, when it didn't it was quite painful to have to deal with the local vendor to implement our features, and troubleshoot…
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Don’t you dare take away the little rest of the internet for me that does NOT constantly lock me out using the snake oil that is Cloudflare’s Turnstile.
How dare you go online without a clean IP at a first world country home ISP! You should be subjected to 99 captchas a minute for it!
But somehow, Turnstile seems to think that traffic from a Linux phone == robot traffic.
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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.
Qgis 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.
Why did you need circular maps?