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Hello Simon,</div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0">I'm working for a police department in a bigger federal state of Germany (40000+ employees). I was (as a policeofficer, not programmer or so) involved to launch shortly QGIS as the free alternative desktop-GIS to ESRI for everyone
who has a need in our organisation.</div>
<div class="ContentPasted0">From my point your main problem is not QGIS vs. ArcGIS or open source against closed source.</div>
<div class="ContentPasted0">As others said before the question of security is where and in which format you store your confidential data and who has how access to it.</div>
<div class="ContentPasted0">I'm sure you have securty professionals in your organisation. Discuss your usecase and the options: file format and fileaccess or database etc..</div>
<div class="ContentPasted0">Then I would think about the software on the clients (which could be QGIS for many reasons
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<div class="ContentPasted0">That would be my 2 cent.</div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0">Best regards,</div>
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<b>Gesendet:</b> Dienstag, 23. Mai 2023 18:09<br>
<b>An:</b> qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org <qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org><br>
<b>Betreff:</b> [Qgis-user] QGIS for safe organization use.</font>
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Hello, </div>
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I work at the Department of National Defense for the Canadian government and had some questions regarding QGIS. </div>
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Firstly, I'm working on a project to determine the seismic risk and vulnerability of all the department's buildings different Canadian Provinces. An important part of the project will be to create a geodatabase containing crucial information about each building.
After, I plan to create a layer that will show the location of these buildings on a map. </div>
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Now, a large portion of the information regarding the buildings and their locations is confidential, and so I'm wondering if the geodatabase and layer that I plan to create will be safe and protected, or if other users will have access to them since QGIS is
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At first, I was planning to work with ArcGIS Pro but I'm currently waiting for a license. When or if it comes through, I'll stick with ArcGIS but for now QGIS seems to be the best alternative. </div>
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If QGIS is not safe, are there other safe and similar softwares you can recommend? </div>
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Thanks, </div>
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