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user-inactivated  ·  664 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: June 1, 2022

arcgis time ✌️





user-inactivated  ·  662 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Have you heard the wonders of QGIS, my fellow cartographer?

You can allocate more computer cores for rendering more/larger datasets at once.

user-inactivated  ·  662 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oooh, free and open source!

And no I had not, did like a tiny bit of ArcGIS in one lab in one class in college and that's been it :p

Ty for the recommendation, I'll definitely check it out :)

user-inactivated  ·  662 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Absolutely. QGIS is incredibly powerful, so much so that ESRI re-wraps QGIS/Opensource GIS (Postgres) and calls it their own - in a more palatable and scalable manner in some cases.

Opensource GIS can do some absolutely mind-blowing custom work.

Talking specifically any combination of QGIS x PostgreSQL x pgAdmin x BlenderGIS.

Example 1:

Example 2: https://medium.com/@tjukanov/geogiffery-in-a-nutshell-introduction-to-qgis-time-manager-31bb79f2af19

For the record, you CAN get a fully kitted out ArcGIS license to use Pro/AGOL for ~$100/yr as a personal-use only software. No making a profit using their tech at all (that, they charge you many multiples of $10k for).

So… just come to the dark side.

user-inactivated  ·  661 days ago  ·  link  ·  

you had me at opensource ;)

already having fun with QGIS+OpenStreetMap/OpenRouteService & wow those visualizations are cool, had no idea BlenderGIS was a thing either!

Is there a better place to find datasets than https://hub.arcgis.com/search ?

user-inactivated  ·  661 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It really depends on what you're looking for. Sometimes it just comes down to asking google "[subject of interest] gis data," then finding out where the best data store is located online.

For anything Florida related, go to (if there's a specific state/county you have in mind, sometimes google searching "[the state/county] gis data"):

https://www.fgdl.org/metadataexplorer/explorer.jsp

For anything relating to the U.S. boundaries, go to:

https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/geography/guidance/tiger-data-products-guide.html

For Census/demographic data, you're in luck the 2020 decennial data is out (maybe helpful if you have a question about best area to service for a gameboard shop):

https://data.census.gov/cedsci/

To be fair, there are many datasets also hosted on arcgis hubs, like FAA data:

https://adds-faa.opendata.arcgis.com/

There are also non-arcgis options for other datasets:

https://flightaware.com/

This all said, feel free to DM me about specific questions or what you are trying to do. I'd be more than happy to help.