Comment by dbacar
9 hours ago
When you mention QGIS, you should also mention GDAL, JTS, udig, geoserver, open stree maps, open scene graph, FWtools etc. Open source GIS has awesome list of projects and people, QGIS being only one of them. It really fascinates me.
I think it did to GIS what Sagemath did to free/open source mathematical software. It integrated everything in a nice package, freeing the users from the burden of dealing with countless disparate packages.
and of course the king - PostGIS
and also that qgis installs 1g+ of all these goodies tied together.
Fun fact: QGIS was originally written just to view PostGIS tables.
That is a fun fact!
> When you mention QGIS, you should also mention GDAL (...)
GDAL should be front and center. It's the xkcd 2347 of earth observation and geographical information systems
Yeah out of these GDAL is the one I use the most because it's easy to script. I honestly find it easier to use GDAL on the command line than the QGIS GUI which says a lot about the latter.