QGIS a great solution for nonprofit organizations
June 14, 2018
QGIS a great solution for nonprofit organizations
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with QGIS
QGIS was used by select researchers who utilized the mapping software for social and economic data visualization in line with our organization's mission and views on children and adolescent health. This is a low cost/free option for us to create reports and tools for grantors and funders, as well as legislators.
- Demonstrates geographic-centric data for all levels of readers
- Makes complicated data more easily digestible and reviewable
- Increases the ability to explain data to funders, grantors, and stakeholders
- QGIS is hard to use for beginners. A better tutorial and clearer online tutorials could improve this.
- Labeling interface is overly complicated. Allowing users to manually add labels to relevant items could be helpful.
- QGIS should have more "wizards" that can easily import common data points (median income, population density, etc) and cross tabulate that with other categories easily from uploaded data.
- QGIS gives us more impactful data on children and maternal health issues, which in turn has helped us establish more programs, relationships, and funding opportunities because of the excellent data presentations we can give.
- QGIS has allowed our staff to improve their data analysis skills, improving our workforce across the board, with or without the direct use of geographic data.
- QGIS has required a lot of staff time to learn, but the ROI on time spent vs the reports we produced afterward has been well worth it.
ESRI programs like ArcGIS are the gold standard in planning, GIS, and digital data visualization, but QGIS stands up to the ArcGIS package at a lower price point and with excellent training information. ArcGIS has very little other components not found in QGIS, and QGIS has always met the needs I had and I did not need to resort to using ArcGIS.