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by mirchiseth 282 days ago
Do you work in GIS field and it is useful? I am trying to see how a GIS tool will help a typical audience here that may be a little interested in maps + data.
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markstos 282 days ago
I taught myself QGIS for spatial analysis of map data-- coming at it from a coding perspective. It has great Python integration. It's also surprisingly useful as a spreadsheet alternative for certain tasks because it supports a SQL-like interface into CSV data, so you can join CSVs with spatial data or with each other, create views and virtual fields, and so on. Overall, very impressed with the depth, breadth, and ease of use considering how powerful it is.
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hectormauer22 282 days ago
I used to work at an ISP based in the UK. They also put fibre in the ground. Their entire "design" tool was basically a huge QGIS python plug-in.

It is incredible the flexibility QGIS gives you. By paying a couple of developers the company probably saved millions in software.

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fredrikmoger 282 days ago
Check out Atlas.co - kind of like airtable but for spatial data and spatial tools
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larodi 282 days ago
its good for teaching, otherwise it may be super clumsy with large layers and this is unsolvable in the near future. ref. ticket.

even so, we must admit, is still the most comprehensive opensource something to compete with esri.

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thirtygeo 282 days ago
So weird to see this comment. QGIS powering government GIS groups and used by major geoscience and mining companies.. working with national sized vector and raster data.
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larodi 281 days ago
Have you tried loading 500k features into QGIS? Well, try it and we talk again.

Govs used QGIS as alternative to pricey ESRI subscriptions, but come to realize that it is struggling even as a viewer. Happily latest versions allow simplification of features on the server side, but these are very new QGISs

also take a look here

https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Ao...

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