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I had fun working with QGIS some years ago, connecting it to GeoServer, mapserver, importing shapefiles, and customizing a few maps. I didn't use as much as the GIS engineers I worked with, but it was definitely a great open source tool.
I had to use ArcGIS too, and while sometimes it performed well, when it didn't it was quite painful to have to deal with the local vendor to implement our features, and troubleshoot bugs in their software.
I remember, 10 to twenty years ago, when GIS was still a huge part of my job. QGIS then went from being the "cheap opensource contender" to being my main tool... How much better it was than the previous ones...
qgis is the best gis software ever... i use it weekly, almost daily.
my next move would be to learn how to make my own plugins.
ps: i'm a forester, fwiw :)
I used QGIS 2.x and 3.x a lot when making maps for research papers. But something that always stung was reproducibility. The python tooling was not there compared to what I could do with click-and-mouse, and there was no easy way to transfer my click-and-mouse sessions into an equivalent python script.
Is the situation unchanged? (Maybe a good use for Opus would be to write a wrapper for the python tooling?)
Wow. I recently joined a grid management company and we use an (in my view) ancient piece of German software called Lovion. It's written in .net 4 I think.
Crazy to now see this piece of (free!) software that essentially runs circles around the software we pay heavily for.
I get an 504 error when trying to open the page. There's no changelog page for 4.0 linked on the home page, so I guess that it hasn't been created yet?
Qgis my beloved used it during my Masters extensively and its great. Only ever problem i had was that it did not support circular maps. Or rather non rectangular map borders. So i had to use some arcane magic in Julia to make those.
QGIS is the rare open source product that made great improvements in usability. It's still got lots of warts and lack of polish but a lot of the core features are quite accessible in a way they weren't 5 years ago.
Funny that this is on the front page of HN. I’m currently attending a 3 day in person immersive course at a university. For what applications are you guys using it for? Curious about the potential
QGIS is one of the small number of truly great open source desktop apps.
Another project that makes me want an equivalent for 2D or 3D CAD! CAD is missing a QGIS or Blender…
Congrats to QGIS team, looking forward to native apple silicon support
QGIS is great. One of the truly good open source projects. I used it to successfully extract 3D height data for the mountains next to my hometown. This was not an easy task since the miuntains are on a national border and I had to combine height data from two national sources. It still worked out perfectly fine.
there's really no excuse for not running cloudflare at least it is 2026.
QGIS has been a key piece of my career for the past 10 years. This year I'm launching a SaaS where QGIS is, again, the most fundamental piece. I'm only hoping everything goes right so I can contribute back to this project what It deserves. One of the big OSS stars. Thanks QGIS team.