QGIS Under the Raedar

Wednesday, 27 August, 2014

Really nice article from Alasdair - I can only echo his comments. QGIS has reached a nice level of maturity and usability and is now well worth the investment of time. I would add a couple of my own points to this:

1. Portability: just copy the QGIS folder on to your USB stick. It runs from there happily
2. Speed: for such a large application it is relatively fast.

I have been working on a project with colleagues at Wageningen (Saskia Keesstra and Niels Anders) involving some spatial processing using Python - this utilises shapefiles for data storage and QGIS is wonderfully rapid for loading, symbolising and querying data.