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QGIS is fantastic - it's the only OSS viewer I know of that can consistently and efficiently display multi-GB TIFF images without crashing. It has been a long j
by boxerab 1y ago
QGIS is fantastic - it's the only OSS viewer I know of that can consistently and efficiently display multi-GB TIFF images without crashing. It has been a long journey - 20 years to capture ~8% of the geospatial market. ESRI still rules the enterprise, with 40-50% of the market share. More generally, there are so many excellent open source geospatial projects like Geoserver, GDAL, Geonode, Map GL Libre, kepler.gl, Martin, Mapserver, .... but they still have not managed to disrupt ESRI. I think because they are still too fragmented, and still mostly stuck on the desktop, while everything is moving to the cloud.
- awesan 1y agoWe are running mapserver in production in the cloud (AWS lambda) to visualize lots of different data using WMS. We're also doing lots of processing using GDAL in the cloud as well. Compared to ESRI it's amazingly cost effective even considering Amazon's high prices.
- boxerab 1y agonice. If you aren't already familiar, you might be interested in this platform for Dutch geospatial data: https://github.com/PDOK https://github.com/PDOK . They use mapserver on the cloud at massive scale, and all of their infra is open.
- awesan 1y agoThanks, I wasn't aware. I'll definitely take a look.
- Tarq0n 1y agoI do all my GIS work in R, and prefer it to a GUI first approach to be honest.
- Qem 1y agoWhat R modules do you use for that?
- napoleongl 1y agoThere are quite a few. https://guides.library.columbia.edu/geotools/R https://guides.library.columbia.edu/geotools/R I mostly used sf at uni and also preferd it to QGIS in most scenarios. Far from a pro user though.