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by chiubaca 1895 days ago
Ive been wondering the same thing. especially when u see what can be done with WASM in apps like Figma. I believe most of the QGIS code base is c++ so i wonder if it's just a case writing a bunch of js, wasm glue code to make this a reality...
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That's a really interesting thought. I think it would be worth seeing if OGR/GDAL can be ported to wasm.

Next would be GRASS.

JSTS is pure JS and does a lot of vector GIS fine.

I think those three things and a decent UI would be an absolutely killer Web app for the general public to do more GIS.

Yep, here's GDAL ported to WASM https://github.com/ddohler/gdal-js