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QGIS

4.5

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Pricing

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About QGIS

QGIS is an open-source GIS solution that helps businesses streamline processes related to map creation, data exporting, map labeling, spatial analysis, and more on a centralized platform. It enables staff members to utilize a drag-and-drop interface to compose maps with multiple custom layers, such as roads, rivers, protected areas, water, buildings, and other elements.

QGIS allows team members to create map labels with custom titles, descriptions, fonts, size, colors, opacity, and placement. The print layout option lets employees create multiple templates with specific item properties, add and edit maps, and export maps in multiple file formats, including SVG, PDF, or image. Additionally, with the vector analysis tool, supervisors can create projections, transform data, conduct network analysis, generate spatial statistics, build image histograms, calculate shortest paths, monitor overlapping areas, and more from within a unified platform.

QGIS comes with an application programming interface (API), which allows businesses to integrate the platform with several third-party solutions. Administrators can configure the platform in multiple languages, such as English, German, Spanish...

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QGIS Features

Popular features found in GIS
3D Imaging
Color Codes/Icons
Data Import/Export
Data Mapping
Geocoding
Image Management
Labeling
Map Sharing
Reporting/Analytics
Route Optimization
More features of QGIS
Activity Dashboard
API
Data Capture and Transfer
Data Collection
Data Visualization
Geographic Maps
Geolocation
Interoperability
Map Creation
Reporting & Statistics
Spatial Analysis
Third-Party Integrations

QGIS User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.5

Ratings Breakdown

59%

35%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.2

Value for money

4.6

Customer support

4.0

Functionality

4.4

Chanchala D.

Verified reviewer

Research

501-1000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2022

Best open-source software for geospatial mapping!!

QGIS is open-source software that can easily download and deploy. It consists of a variety of plugins and tools to work with geospatial data.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

QGIS is totally free software that helps us to perform spatial analysis, data management, geospatial data preparation, satellite data interpretation, etc. This software is updating day by day and adding very important plugins and features to it. QGIS has plugins to connect with other platforms too. For example, Send2GoogleEarth plugin can join with Google Earth Pro, Google Earth Engine Plugin can work with GEE platform. This software provides plugins and tools for quick land use classifications compared to other GIS platforms. Digitization of spatial elements like buildings, roads, streams, and land cover is very comfortable with QGIS. QGIS has the facility to load base maps such as OpenStreetMap, Google Hybrid, Google Satellite, Google Road, and Bing Arial by adding the URL. This service is very valuable for those who are working with base data preparation and interpretation.

Cons:

QGIS doesn’t support adding data from file geodatabases. Sometimes QGIS is unexpectedly ended due to crash reporting. Especially at the time, we are doing digitization activities using google satellite images.

Alexis F.

Verified reviewer

Environmental Services

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2023

Excellent GIS tool

a positive experience is easy to use and the elements are available to the user

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

a quality software and it is also free for all users

Cons:

which is available to all users for free and has a large number of tools to work with

Cooper S.

Verified reviewer

Architecture & Planning

Self-Employed

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2024

Just use ESRI.

Honestly terrible, i used it for a very brief period of time due to all of its issues.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

In theory, it was easy to use, however there were always problems.

Cons:

The opensource nature of the product led to a lack of overall support and compatibility. I experienced constant problems, slow-downs, freezes, and crashes with the program.

Chancy S.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

501-1000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2022

Review of QGIS

QGIS is very useful software in the Geoinformatics field.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

QGIS is free and open-source software. QGIS supports all possible formats such as raster, vector, point clouds of GIS, and Remote Sensing. QGIS is highly customizable and the Developer can develop various plugins as per requirements.

Cons:

QGIS sometimes encounters a bug and immediate Support is not available. QGIS needs more tools for raster data processing.

Carlos B.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2022

Free and easy to use

Qgis is one of the most complete geographic information processing software out there today.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It is an open access software with regular updates available to everyone. Its compatibility with various graphic and semantic information input formats make it a powerful tool for managing geographic information. The management of information in raster and vector formats make Qgis a versatile system, suitable for applications in many themes. The possibility of using web maps as a base or in the representation of the results allows a better visualization of the information.

Cons:

Some initial training is needed, once the first steps are taken it is easy to use.

Dilraj S.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

501-1000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2021

Best GIS software for beginners

A great GIS software that is available to download free of cost. It provides large number of third party tools and plugins for faster data manipulation and analysis.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Best software for beginners and easy to install. QGIS is a powerful tool for custom geoprocessing to identify trends within the spatial dataset and create professional looking maps, free of cost. Able to handle complicated datasets easily. Allows easy task automation to schedule jobs on a daily basis.

Cons:

The software can be a bit unstable and slow while performing heavy tasks, and fails to efficiently manage raster data unlike other GIS software available.

Carlos C.

Verified reviewer

Architecture & Planning

201-500 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2019

Powerful, reliable, easy to use, extendable... and free (as in free beer and free speech)

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

It is extremely powerful: it has plenty of built-in algorithms that range from data analysis, visualization, vector, raster... and it has thousands of 3rd party plug-ins that extend their base functionallities. Furthermore, if everything fails, it can be extended through python scripting. As result it can be used for any purpose that include geospatial data. Furthermore, it is reliable, meaning that it does not hang when working with large datasets or doing complex calculations. The fact that can be used in any major Operating System (GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac, Android) and can read and write a number of file formats (including, but not limited to, all open standards) makes it excellent for sharing your work with others, preventing any kind of platform lock-in.

Cons:

It might be not well-known as Arcgis, even though it can do everything Arcgis can do plus more, at a fraction of its cost (0).

Oder Henrique R.

Verified reviewer

Renewables & Environment

11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed April 2021

Great software in what it proposes

I have been using the program for more than 6 months and even then I have no interest in changing software, as it perfectly meets my map creation demands. I can create everything from less complex maps for personal use, to maps for professional use.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The main benefit of QGIS in relation to competitors is related to cost-benefit. The software is compatible with the most popular operating systems such as Windowns, Linux and Mac. A few months ago I started a course to become professional and 4 months ago I got a new job opportunity thanks to my knowledge and skill with the tool. In addition, QGIS support is very complete, where I can solve problems in a short time. It is possible to download different versions of the program, depending on each demand.

Cons:

Comparing QGIS with some similar but paid programs, it is possible to notice that some problems happen more frequently, where the software proves to be more unstable and sometimes the program closes for no apparent reason, however, these are quite sporadic situations and do not affect my Yield.

Jamal M.

Verified reviewer

Civil Engineering

11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed November 2022

new user 6 month

My somewhat recent experience with the program is to solve the problems of the layers that I used to export to and from other expensive programs, which I am doing now with the free program

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The program is completely free, light and easy to handle with features

Cons:

The permanent development of the program and keep abreast of the development that occurs with all programs and devices, and it is free

Reasons for switching to QGIS

money

Deepit K.

Verified reviewer

Environmental Services

2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed February 2021

Still the best Open Source GIS Software

IT has most features on it for GeoSpatial use along with added Geoprocessing tools and plugins, surprisingly found it a first choice for maybe handling with rasters imagery for simpler work. QGIS does everything I need for professional mapping & analysis. The software is updated on time and regularly. easily connectable to other applications even including hardware GPS devices through plugins and has an easy integration with Excel Databases and supports most Excel Database formats. User Friendly GIS option.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Its pretty useful options if you want to convert from on format to another such as GDAL files having formats of Raster imagery such as converting grid files, image files to ASCII files etc including numerous other formats. Budget friendly option for Geospatial professionals plus easy to use tools for other professionals in the field of Environment or planning for their mapping work. Add on's are another useful feature, recently used and add on for adding surveys for data point collection of reviewing of data points, many developers are able to make add on plugins for QGIS.

Cons:

There can arise issues such as lag or time taken for some geoprocessing tools, installation loading times, time taken for bulk tasks, in general using ArcGIS is more easier and better. Tool bar graphics can be out of date.

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