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QGIS

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

QGIS main window while editing a project

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Platforms

  • Mac  Requires installation GDAL and GSL frameworks
  • Windows  Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Libraries required
  • Linux
  • Android
  • BSD
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Features

  1. Microsoft 365 Copilot icon  Microsoft Office integration
  2.  Multiplatform
  3.  Arc GIS
  4.  Works Offline
  5.  No registration required
  6.  Ad-free
  7.  Route Planning
  8.  Community-based
  9.  Table manager

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Comments and Reviews

   
Top Positive Comment
caiocco
3

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]

AndreLester
0

Quite simply one the best desktop GIS software solutions including any proprietary options.

mariusoho
0

Its open-source, and a better alternative than the overpriced ESRI suite

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Samenaga
0

I like QGIS because it is free software licensed under the GPL.

Aerson Moreira
0

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.

josalves
0

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
-9

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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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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