<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi All</div><div>This has been a great thread to read. Simon I hope this has helped you and if you need any further clarification, please let us know. <br></div><div><br></div><div>It will be interesting to see how you feel about the both after using them and I would be interested to hear your thoughts.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>Em<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 24 May 2023 at 04:14, Michael Gieding via QGIS-User <<a href="mailto:qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org">qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg1737745493601138991">
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<div>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>From my point your main problem is not QGIS vs. ArcGIS or open source against closed source.</div>
<div>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>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>Then I would think about the software on the clients (which could be QGIS for many reasons
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<div>That would be my 2 cent.</div>
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<b>Gesendet:</b> Dienstag, 23. Mai 2023 18:09<br>
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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.
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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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