I remember, 10 to twenty years ago, when GIS was still a huge part of my job. QGIS then went from being the "cheap opensource contender" to being my main tool... How much better it was than the previous ones...
qgis is the best gis software ever...
i use it weekly, almost daily.
my next move would be to learn how to make my own plugins.
ps: i'm a forester, fwiw :)
Also in forestry.
Recently I explained to a student that Arc Pro is kind of like the Disney of GIS software. It’s powerful and colorful and very well known, but if you try and do things it doesn’t like, you’re going to have a bad time.
QGIS is my daily driver. It’s so much lighter and so much less bloat, it’s just wildly more efficient. These days I pretty much use Arc for machine learning features.
Funny that this is on the front page of HN.
I’m currently attending a 3 day in person immersive course at a university.
For what applications are you guys using it for? Curious about the potential
I used it to map out storage locations and refill stations at our online grocery picking stations, then export it to read in using geopandas in order to calculate the shortest distances between all locations!
I used it to examine results of objects a model detected out of an aerial images
I used it to write papers about glaciovolcanism early in my career. Later, I used it to study caves on the Moon.
I get an 504 error when trying to open the page. There's no changelog page for 4.0 linked on the home page, so I guess that it hasn't been created yet?
It's 2026, serving semi-static webpages should be a solved problem for at least 30 years. I'm still puzzled that HN-hug-of-death is a thing.
Another project that makes me want an equivalent for 2D or 3D CAD! CAD is missing a QGIS or Blender…
Congrats to QGIS team, looking forward to native apple silicon support
I believe in freecad! It's not there yet, but the latest release is a lot of progress!
QGIS is great. One of the truly good open source projects. I used it to successfully extract 3D height data for the mountains next to my hometown. This was not an easy task since the miuntains are on a national border and I had to combine height data from two national sources. It still worked out perfectly fine.
in france the lidar collection of data is almost entirely done, we can get numerical model of the terrain and tree heights, it's awesome in qgis!
there's really no excuse for not running cloudflare at least it is 2026.
Don’t you dare take away the little rest of the internet for me that does NOT constantly lock me out using the snake oil that is Cloudflare’s Turnstile.
What a pointless comment.
There are many good reasons to not use Cloudflare. Are you shilling for them or what is your actual problem?
I think ra is complaining because changlog.qgis.org appears to be inaccessible. HN hug of death I guess. qgis.org itself seems fine.
I remember, 10 to twenty years ago, when GIS was still a huge part of my job. QGIS then went from being the "cheap opensource contender" to being my main tool... How much better it was than the previous ones...
qgis is the best gis software ever... i use it weekly, almost daily.
my next move would be to learn how to make my own plugins.
ps: i'm a forester, fwiw :)
Also in forestry.
Recently I explained to a student that Arc Pro is kind of like the Disney of GIS software. It’s powerful and colorful and very well known, but if you try and do things it doesn’t like, you’re going to have a bad time.
QGIS is my daily driver. It’s so much lighter and so much less bloat, it’s just wildly more efficient. These days I pretty much use Arc for machine learning features.
Funny that this is on the front page of HN. I’m currently attending a 3 day in person immersive course at a university. For what applications are you guys using it for? Curious about the potential
I used it to map out storage locations and refill stations at our online grocery picking stations, then export it to read in using geopandas in order to calculate the shortest distances between all locations!
I used it to examine results of objects a model detected out of an aerial images
I used it to write papers about glaciovolcanism early in my career. Later, I used it to study caves on the Moon.
I get an 504 error when trying to open the page. There's no changelog page for 4.0 linked on the home page, so I guess that it hasn't been created yet?
It's 2026, serving semi-static webpages should be a solved problem for at least 30 years. I'm still puzzled that HN-hug-of-death is a thing.
It appears so, the release is tracked here and isn't complete: https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/milestone/226
https://changelog.qgis.org
That page is also down.
Even previous ones, listed on Google when searching "QGIS changelog" are all down. So it's a server error on their side most likely.
https://web.archive.org/web/20260303144625/https://changelog...
Another project that makes me want an equivalent for 2D or 3D CAD! CAD is missing a QGIS or Blender…
Congrats to QGIS team, looking forward to native apple silicon support
I believe in freecad! It's not there yet, but the latest release is a lot of progress!
QGIS is great. One of the truly good open source projects. I used it to successfully extract 3D height data for the mountains next to my hometown. This was not an easy task since the miuntains are on a national border and I had to combine height data from two national sources. It still worked out perfectly fine.
in france the lidar collection of data is almost entirely done, we can get numerical model of the terrain and tree heights, it's awesome in qgis!
there's really no excuse for not running cloudflare at least it is 2026.
Don’t you dare take away the little rest of the internet for me that does NOT constantly lock me out using the snake oil that is Cloudflare’s Turnstile.
What a pointless comment. There are many good reasons to not use Cloudflare. Are you shilling for them or what is your actual problem?
I think ra is complaining because changlog.qgis.org appears to be inaccessible. HN hug of death I guess. qgis.org itself seems fine.