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Re:An Interview with the Founder of QGIS by scblock on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @04:27PM (#18027446)
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.

Re:An Interview with the Founder of QGIS by samcheng on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @05:22PM (#18027833)
What are you using for python? PostGIS? osgeo/gdal? Some of the other libraries like Shapely or pyshp?
Re:An Interview with the Founder of QGIS by scblock on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @07:00PM (#18028330)
Most of our stuff is focused on calculation and interpolation on raster data, so a lot of numpy with appropriate hooks. Porting varies, sometimes it’s as simple as changing a couple of function calls to gdal, sometimes it’s trickier. I’ve only made it through a couple of the simpler tools, like a mesoscale wind map based energy production calculation and a wind resource grid interpolator that were originally standalone anyways. The gdal calls to read and write rasters are pretty easy to use.