

QGIS
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A fully featured, user friendly, open source Geographic Information System (GIS) with similar power to ArcGIS and MapInfo.
License model
- Free • Open Source
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Country of Origin
Switzerland
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- BSD
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- 11,306 Stars
- 3,125 Forks
- 4942 Open Issues
- Updated May 17, 2025
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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]
Its open-source, and a better alternative than the overpriced ESRI suite
I like QGIS because it is free software licensed under the GPL.
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.
Do not use it a lot but is the GIS software I use most.. allways new features... 5 star for 2.8 version
You get what you pay for. Impossibly lousy by default, and through enormous efforts, and I do mean enormous, one may achieve modest results.