<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi, <br></div><div></div><div><br></div><div><b>42 ! <br></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>Sorry for the geek's joke. :)<br></div><div><br></div><div>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. <br></div><div><br></div><div>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spend too much time on studying and comparing it to others, because it is moving so fast that your conclusion will get outdated in a few months.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:</div><div><br></div><div>- test QGIS quickly by yourself quickly, then<br></div><div>- Isolate your more critical use cases, then<br></div><div>- 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)<br></div><div>- identify what's missing to you<br></div><div>- 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 <br></div><div>- 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. <br></div><div>- deploy /enjoy</div><div>- 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 ;-)<br></div><div><br></div><div>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. <br></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div>Surveying, environnement, mining, geology, hydrology, land planning, network utilitie, research (even in Antartic).. etc..<br></div><div>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.. <br></div><div>So QGIS can't be analysed alone, that would be unfair. <br></div><div>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. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Best regards</div><div><br></div><div><b></b></div><div><b><br></b></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le mer. 11 mars 2020 à 09:40, Llywelyn Law <<a href="mailto:llywelyn.law@googlemail.com">llywelyn.law@googlemail.com</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hello all. Just a few questions on the software, would appreciate any feedback.<br>
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1. Benefits of it use to site engineers, land surveyors etc.<br>
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2. What data/information can be produced and exported.<br>
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3. What plug-ins have been developed and that are very useful.<br>
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4. Data export formats<br>
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5. Comparison to ArcGIS.<br>
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Thank you very much.<br>
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