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hern42yesterday at 11:14 AM3 repliesview on HN

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 :)


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jyoung789yesterday at 12:53 PM

Also in forestry.

Recently I explained to a student that Arc Pro is kind of like the Disney of GIS software. It’s powerful and colorful and very well known, but if you try and do things it doesn’t like, you’re going to have a bad time.

QGIS is my daily driver. It’s so much lighter and so much less bloat, it’s just wildly more efficient. These days I pretty much use Arc for machine learning features.

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jadedtunayesterday at 1:42 PM

I've worked with developing plugins for QGIS. It's just Python and PyQT, along with a bunch of things provided by QGIS itself. Overall a very pleasant experience, and their docs are pretty good too.

greenie_beansyesterday at 3:13 PM

ooo what plugins does a forester need? (just curious cuz forestry is an interest of mine)

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