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scanny | 7 months ago

QGIS for ArcMap/ArcGIS Geoserver for their REST based servers (ArcGIS Enterprise). GRASS and GDAL do the leg work of much processing found in the spatial toolboxes and such.

However those tools do not have the polish that ESRI kit does, but at leas you’re not paying the licensing!

- former ESRI consultant

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morganherlocker|7 months ago

> However those tools do not have the polish that ESRI kit does, but at leas you’re not paying the licensing!

Arguably they have more polish, but less GUI. The open GIS world is more CLI, database, and library driven, which can be an advantage for many users trying to build high reliability or scaling systems.

misswaterfairy|7 months ago

Except most GIS Analysts aren't, or don't understand how to.

That's a lot of the reason why Esri still wins a lot of contracts.