Yes QGIS is a great program and since it is open source the amount of information you find is great on the internet and YouTube. The power is in the plug ins though. You will spend a lot of time going through all of them to get things you find useful. Manifold is really powerful when you have the NVIDIA graphics cards because it uses each CPE in addition to the cores on CPU. I use them both and Manifold screams as far as computing power especially with large databases. They have a YouTube channel to help get you up to speed with one video of little over 40 minutes and then a lot of 10 minute lessons. If you do buy that program, get the version that has both license for version 9 and the old 8 version. They changed a lot of things in version 9 and some things are still easier to do in version 8. Total for both versions is only $135.
QGIS does have some things that work better or different than Manifold so I use both on occasion. They will both hook to any ODBC compatible database as well as a plethora of other on line sources including ESRI’s public datasets. Thank you, Brian Webster 214 Eggleston Hill Rd. Cooperstown, NY 13326 (607) 643-4055 Office (607) 435-3988 Mobile www.wirelessmapping.com From: AF [mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com] On Behalf Of Forrest Christian (List Account) Sent: Monday, February 7, 2022 6:55 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] GIS I use qgis (open source). A bit of a learning curve but it's amazingly functional. There is also manifold which is dirt cheap as far as GIS is concerned. On Mon, Feb 7, 2022, 4:44 PM Chuck McCown via AF <af@af.afmug.com> wrote: Anyone here use GIS? Thinking of a blend of a map and customer info. Too cheap for ESRI. Are there alternates? -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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