<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hi Gavin,<br><br></div>I had a look at the article from Nick Bearman and interview from Nicolas Duggan. Very nice and well investigated! Thanks for them.<br><br></div><div>The only two major drivers, next to cost savings, that I would like to see added in the motivations for using QGIS are:<br></div><div>- flexibility and<br></div><div>- speed of development<br><br></div><div>QGIS is these days a very flexible toolkit - both for regular users and developers. A lot of things can be done through configuration only, by power users, using expressions, forms and widgets, model builder, etc., but if you are a developer, the possibilities are almost endless. There are quite a few development projects around, that use QGIS as the engine, but develop a completely different UI on to of that.<br><br></div><div>Regarding speed of development: if you have ever tried to get a new feature that you want as a customer into either QGIS or some other major commercial GIS, you will probably find out that in 90% of the cases it is much quicker to get the new feature into QGIS than into the product of the commercial competitor. You have a much better and more direct access to the developer team at the QGIS project, and if you invest financial resources and find a good developer, you can get new functionality in QGIS quite fast. There is a large pool of know-how, skills and competencies within the QGIS developer community (and the related FOSS4G libraries on which QGIS builds) and the community will help you find the right developer for solving your problem.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Challenges are sometimes: coordination and making sure that things that have been developed once won't be negatively affected or broken by other development happening later or in parallel.<br></div><div><br></div>Thanks,<br></div>Andreas<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 September 2018 at 23:02, <a href="mailto:gavin.schrock@xyht.com">gavin.schrock@xyht.com</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gavin.schrock@xyht.com" target="_blank">gavin.schrock@xyht.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-size:12px"><div>Hi Paolo and team,</div>
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<div>I have a quick question regarding the 4 articles appearing in the September issue of xyHt Magazine. There are four articles containing insights from you, Nick B, Anita, Tim S, etc. I'm the editor of xyHt and a question has come up about the Q in QGIS. The running of these articles came directly f=as result of inquiries from our readers asking to learn more about QGIS. One of the questions, while perhaps trivial was "what is the meaning of the Q in QGIS".</div>
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<div>I fully understand that in the present that no one would ever refer to QGIS with the 'quantum' prefix, but it was part of the history and all we wanted to do was resolve the mystery of the 'Q" by stating: <em><b>at one time referred to as Quantum GIS, but now simply as QGIS</b></em></div>
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<div>One of the article contributors would like us to remove any mention of 'quantum', but is that the desire of the entire team? We are a news publication, and the history is part of the news. Does the board have any problem with us mentioning this item from the history of QGIS as stated above?</div>
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