QGIS

Name: QGIS
Rating: 3.8 (4 reviews)

A fully featured, user friendly, open source Geographic Information System (GIS) with similar power to ArcGIS and MapInfo.

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Avg rating of 3.8 (4)| 4 comments

What is QGIS?

QGIS, formerly Quantum GIS, is a user friendly open source Geographic Information System (GIS) licensed under the GNU General Public License that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows and supports numerous vector, raster, and database formats and functionalities.

QGIS lets you browse, edit and create a variety of vector and raster formats, including ESRI shapefiles, spatial data in PostgreSQL/PostGIS, GRASS vectors and rasters, or GeoTiff. You can create customised plugins and GIS enabled applications using Python or C++. Maps can be compiled for printing using the print composer.

QGIS supports plugins to do things like import of delimited text data, download tracks, routes, and waypoints from your GPS or visualize OGC WMS and WFS layers.

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QGIS main window while editing a project

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QGIS Features

Works OfflineQGIS can be used without the need to connect to the internet.
Route PlanningPlan and optimize your route with QGIS to avoid traffic and save time.

QGIS information

Developed byOSGeo, Open Source Geospatial Foundation
LicensingOpen Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.
Written in
C++
RatingAverage rating of 3.8
Alternatives48 alternatives listed

Supported Languages

English

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7,048 Stars
2,527 Forks
4140 Open Issues
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QGIS was added to AlternativeTo by Ti on and this page was last updated . QGIS is sometimes referred to as Quantum GIS.

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caiocco

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Top positive comment• ago

QGIS deserve a better review, so it goes:

Pros:

Very portable, as it is based on Qt toolkit
Very extendable, as it supports Python and has a bunch of plugins easily available trough a repository
Translated to many languages
The long term support releases (LTR) are (usually) stable and good for production usage
- I've had specially good results with 2.4 (on Debian), 2.16 (on Windows) and 3.4 (on Windows and openSUSE)
- Even unstable releases can be very usable for daily work, but I also got good results using 3.10 releases as well (on openSUSE and Fedora)
Integrates with the right versions of GRASS and SAGA
Has a handy processing toolbox panel

Cons:

When things break, things break badly: be careful when upgrading, if your version is working nicely and you want to upgrade it, plan accordingly so you won't lose (too much) time and money
Some translations not kept up with the development of the application
Once a while, plugins may break or don't work without giving a reason
Documentation can be a bit scarce in some situations
May crash with some incorrectly generated shapefiles, be sure to verify the topology and/or disable some checks before running geoprocessing algorithms

Overall, I like to use QGIS. I work for a urban planning firm and we do a lot of cartographic work using QGIS 3.8. QGIS can be used professionally and academically, for sure.

[Edited by caiocco, September 01]

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ambarretojunior

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Top positive comment• ago

As a geoscientist this software was the best that showed up in the last decade. Only weak spot of it is the map editor, it still not so much optimized for complex purposes, IMO. In those cases, I rather export a .pdf of the raw data with the grids and do all the rest on Inkscape.

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josalves

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Positive comment• ago

Do not use it a lot but is the GIS software I use most.. allways new features... 5 star for 2.8 version

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YDoIAlwaysNeedAUsername

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Negative comment• ago

You get what you pay for. Impossibly lousy by default, and through enormous efforts, and I do mean enormous, one may achieve modest results.

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Requires installation GDAL and GSL frameworks

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Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Libraries required

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