I convinced our IT department to add QGIS in the company’s Software center. Now everyone can install it without admin rights. It’s the best way to replace expensive proprietary software with great FOSS software.

QGIS is a really really good open source project. It’s the Firefox for GIS. It’s very approachable for a novice provided you can give them data sources to play with. For expert users, almost all fields can be data defined and almost everything can be scripted in Python.

I gave them 20 bucks a few years ago and I’m cited in the credits. They also thanked me personally.

If only I could convince my company to donate (hundreds of k€) to such projects (QGIS and PostGIS) instead of giving away money to Oracle Spatial, ArcGIS Entreprise and SAP HANA... which are not bad per se but not worth the price.

QGIS is truly excellent. I'm a frequent ESRI ArcGIS user, but I'm pushing to put QGIS more in our workflow, including field work. And I use it for personal GIS projects as well.

As ESRI moves farther away from making useful products that can adapt to fit our workflows, and more into rent seeking, I move more parts of our process to QGIS, and port more of our custom python tools over.

I used to work for an enterprise GIS vendor who generally contacts for Indian government departments. Primarily, we were trying to offer competition to ESRI for bagging government contracts.

Quite honestly, the ecosystem of products offered is really really bad. ESRI, the market leader by far, tries to cram their really clunky software with aggressive marketing. Most of the time, these Govt. departments just end up buying ESRI products that is of little everyday use to them. We beat them out several times by offering a product with far fewer features but much more customised to the needs of a specific department.

Recently though, Indian government departments that use GIS extensively (and governments are among the biggest consumers of GIS products) are seeing a shift to using QGIS. Now they invite tenders just asking for custom GIS plugins to solve a specific issue they want.

It gladdened my heart to walk in to a control room in one of these centers and see nearly every terminal running QGIS. Of course, this makes it tough for my company, but I felt quietly happy knowing that this was absolutely the right way to go. Kudos to whoever in government who's made these choices.

I used QGIS to extract data from Corine/CLC2006 for custom Flightgear scenery some time ago. A very intuitive and powerful piece of software. I think it's more popular in universities than in commercial space. Thanks to the author for the effort to make GIS easy for us GNU/Linux users.

While there are QGIS users here; I've been trying to find a way to create transit maps from QGIS. Does someone know of a plugin that could help?

I'm fairly new to QGIS, and I'm enjoying a lot of the smaller things about it, especially QGIS 3. We were mapping some minibus taxi routes over the past month, and I needed to do some conversion of files, export PDF maps and a few other things (snap to route, distance calculations). I normally write something from scratch with turf.js or rustgeo, but I found QGIS very satisfactory.

Wow, thanks.

QGIS is a wonderful piece of software, I hope it continues to improve and it's already a valuable tool for all things map related (raster- and vector-based).

I work for a company that integrates very tightly with Esri (https://www.esri.com), which has the largest market share of any GIS company (over 40%). We use their JavaScript SDKs for our web-based maps, integrate with their online spatial analysis APIs...the works. This is all great, but many of their offerings get very expensive quickly. Most prices aren't even available to see on their site without an account.

I haven't used QGIS beyond downloading it and playing around, but I'm glad to see FOSS solutions in this space.

I use QGIS for part of our tooling. It has been invaluable to work with GPX and shapefile overlayed on maps. Excellent project!

QGIS is excellent, but personally I stopped using it as much when R's spatial data pipeline got better (particularly since the excellent sf package came around). Now, granted I probably was never a power user of QGIS -- just making very simple choropleths and stuff -- but the R, code-driven approach is more to my liking and I've run into fewer rough edges than I did with QGIS. Still, really mad respect for the software, and so glad that undergrads are learning on open software instead of paying buckets of cash to ESRI.