[Qgis-user] Enquiries

[Régis Haubourg]

Hi,


*42 ! *

Sorry for the geek's joke. :)

More seriously, what you ask for is the holy grail of any software and
cannot be discussed theoretically but confronted to real use cases and your
context of use.

And another point specific to QGIS, don't spend too much time on studying
and comparing it to others, because it is moving so fast that your
conclusion will get outdated in a few months. My advice would be to:

- test QGIS quickly by yourself quickly, then
- Isolate your more critical use cases, then
- hire someone to do a training / consultancy to learn how to use QGIS (and
associated Databases) efficiently for those use cases. A certified trainer
is a guarantee of quality here (chack the certification program on the
website)
- identify what's missing to you
- have someone fix or implement those gaps, either by a plugin if this is
very specific to you or a proof of concept, or by a core contribution too
QGIS
- get ready to update easily QGIS in your organisation so that you can test
and deploy early, and be able to fix QGIS while it is in its maintenance
period.
- deploy /enjoy
- get ready to embrace the open source philosophy and join OSGEO /
QGIS.org  Meet with us in the contributor's meetings. This is not mandatory
;-)

And during this time, keep on reading blog / tutorials / documentation,
don't be afraid to ask specific questions here you can't find any answer on
the web. The more specific, the more community help you will get.

And to try to answer, I see QGIS installed everywhere I go - even in pro
ESRI places - and it adresses almost all use cases of standard GIS, and
goes far beyond other for mapping.
Surveying, environnement, mining, geology, hydrology, land planning,
network utilitie, research (even in Antartic).. etc..
And QGIS is a perfect tool to take benefit of databases, analysis power of
python or R, topological and algorithm richness of GRASS / SAGA / GDAL /
OTB, etc..
So QGIS can't be analysed alone, that would be unfair.
And finally the open source model implies to get involved to implement what
you miss. This is how QGIS grows. here is not big funder behind QGIS, only
contributors, among them many are professionals you can hire.

Best regards



Le mer. 11 mars 2020 à 09:40, Llywelyn Law <llywelyn.law at googlemail.com> a
écrit :

> Hello all. Just a few questions on the software, would appreciate any
> feedback.
>
> 1. Benefits of it use to site engineers, land surveyors etc.
>
> 2. What data/information can be produced and exported.
>
> 3. What plug-ins have been developed and that are very useful.
>
> 4. Data export formats
>
> 5. Comparison to ArcGIS.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
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