A Great Option for Users of GIS
January 19, 2018

A Great Option for Users of GIS

Cesar A Siso L | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with QGIS

QGIS has helped us to make all the cartography and maps to do the spatial analysis or urban areas, with the tools for edit, create, customize and print, we have build maps of the entire city emphasizing the maintenance of the highways, sidewalks, and recreational spaces. The software is used only in the planning area with some implications in others spaces like administration or any office who needs gathering information some particular place or of a specific category of urban space. Qgis it is a really good tool to makes plans, organizes information, manages spatial data, makes maps, and for explaining the people who work in the company or general public which are the places where we need to act and how these are distributed in the city.
  • QGIS can manage virtually any kind of spatial data that means you can manage shapefiles, tab files, raster files, cad files, and so many other formats that can help you to make the maps and analyze data in the best way.
  • With QGIS you can add or modify the tools, for example, if you know some programming experience you can modify the software and include your own tool or extension, this can be very useful if you are an entrepreneur who it is starting to involve in the GIS world.
  • QGIScome GNU license and that means that anybody can easily download the software on his computer and manage all the information available on the internet of spatial data or share information with other people who manage the software or has some interest of build some applications or extensions to it.
  • Being an GNU software has some limitations and one of them it is the instability of the software, it can be closed randomly or without any warning and this can be so annoying if you are doing a very hard work, this happens because you do not have any professional customer support, you only have it from other users.
  • The continuous actualizations can be very annoying because the series bring to fast and you can manage the version 2.14 a little and quickly you can have available, who has not so many modifications and the most of time if not even necessary.
  • You have to be aware of the data, with GNU license the data that you download can be wrong or cannot have all the information that you need, sometimes you could find errors in "datum" o coordinates you have to be aware because the data that it uses is made all over the world without any supervision, virtually anyone can put wrong data for the users, and you do not know until you work with it.
  • QGIS it is a very useful software to work with spatial data in the way the software helps us to make the plans for maintenance of the urban spaces of the city, we can build this by adding data to the shapefiles and later, selecting which area needs to be prioritized and in what order we have to send the workers to their jobs, and the data bring us the opportunity to do a better use of our personal and budget.
  • The software is very useful making models of any kind of situation that happens in a city, in our case with the Tranus extension we can see which are the roads with more traffic and can choose which one has to have a regular or continuous maintenance or which one has to be used only two or three times per month, making it more effective for the uses of our resources.
  • In the planning area QGIS can be so useful because it allows to select which areas of the city has the major budget allocation and why that happens, with this data we can define which areas that need more money to keep in the best possible condition and which ones do not need so much attention from the government, because the actual condition of them it is really good.
First of all QGIS it is a free software in an are that has always been monopolized for big companies like ESRI, in that way QGIS bring the opportunity to know how to work with GIS and how we can manage data from so many formats in only one software. Qgis it is the best alternative for people that it does not have the chance to work with a private software of a big company. This software offers a big range of opportunities to work with spatial and raster data and the extension of GRASS bring us the opportunity to create our own spatial database and work in the way we want. In comparison with other free software QGIS it is the best one.
QGIS can be a tool for beginners or for users who are not familiar with a private software, the interphase it is very easy to manage, and you can have no problems working with a variety of files like cad, shape or tab because the software allows all. For people who it is starting with GIS this the best to get a basic knowledge and start to develop their abilities.

The users, especially the new ones have to be aware of the dysfunction of the free software, some versions can be very unstable and bring some complications in the middle of a job, you have to be aware of the data and where that data comes from, that data can be wrong or have so many mistakes. Another consideration is related to the basic knowledge of programming language if you do not know a little you can have some troubles because to do a modification in the software you have to know a little about programming.