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I'm a big fan of OSM, but I have to say that for my purposes (more geological than anthropocentric), QGIS becoming more functional over the past 5 years has bee

I'm a big fan of OSM, but I have to say that for my purposes (more geological than anthropocentric), QGIS becoming more functional over the past 5 years has been more important, especially after going independent. Similar to Python overtaking MATLAB in utility and likely eventual adoption, I think QGIS (esp. with improving OSM/python/JS support) will become the new standard for GIS outside of the mega-enterprise/private data world where ESRI is focusing. It's really nice watching the confluence of open source technologies making a bigger and more powerful wave.

Cyph0n 11y ago
Yeah, I recently had to use some basic GIS to implement custom reverse geocoding functionality for my college senior project. My workflow looked like this: - Get map data from OSM - Use QGIS for analysis, feature extraction -> export as GeoJSON - Write GeoJSON to MongoDB instance Geolocation "works" out of the box thanks to Mongo's geospatial queries and the MongoDB client for Node. Overall, it was an extremely smooth experience, and involved the use of open-source tools from start to finish. This would have probably been impossible to do for free even just a few years back.
- aw3c2 11y ago
  You might like https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/QuickOSM/ https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/QuickOSM/