Comment by michaelhoney
6 hours ago
I work with QGIS, but until recently I’ve only skated over the surface. In the last year or so I’ve found LLMs increasingly useful as a companion to help me code automation scripts or just to ask “how can I do this?” questions. QGIS is deep and powerful but that power can be hard to access. LLMs make it a lot easier.
A couple months ago I needed some info about a home/property. The county publishes a zip file of "geo data", and after downloading it I asked Claude Code how I can work with the files. It recommended QGIS, but I was lost when I opened it and searched GitHub to find this MCP server[0].
20 minutes later it had every piece of data I could possibly want placed onto the parcel on the map. It felt magical.
[0] https://github.com/jjsantos01/qgis_mcp/
Yeah I've started doing the same thing with ChatGPT. You know that it's already read all the manuals and tutorials...