qgis is the best gis software ever... i use it weekly, almost daily.

my next move would be to learn how to make my own plugins.

ps: i'm a forester, fwiw :)

jyoung789 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Also in forestry.

Recently I explained to a student that Arc Pro is kind of like the Disney of GIS software. It’s powerful and colorful and very well known, but if you try and do things it doesn’t like, you’re going to have a bad time.

QGIS is my daily driver. It’s so much lighter and so much less bloat, it’s just wildly more efficient. These days I pretty much use Arc for machine learning features.

	▲	misswaterfairy 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> if you try and do things it doesn’t like, you’re going to have a bad time. Also that there's the 'Esri' way of doing things, and the 'platform independent' (more-or-less) way of doing things which do not play well with 'Esri-isms'. Esri does have some really nice enterprise components though; I haven't yet found a remotely user-friendly open-source equivalent to Workflow Manager Server or Data Interop., or an as-polished ArcGIS Portal yet, though I constantly keep a look out. QField is getting better and better, too. I wish I knew C++ well enough to help develop it further.

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jadedtuna 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I've worked with developing plugins for QGIS. It's just Python and PyQT, along with a bunch of things provided by QGIS itself. Overall a very pleasant experience, and their docs are pretty good too.

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greenie_beans 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

ooo what plugins does a forester need? (just curious cuz forestry is an interest of mine)