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Yes, we use QGIS instead of Arc for basic GIS debugging and manipulation. My non-technical partners and employees use it to manipulate shape files to make them compatible with formats we support for imports etc. And I regularly use QGIS to help understand random GIS data we get. It lets me overlay GIS data on a Google Map base layer very easily which is often helpful.

Most of the GIS stuff we do uses programming libraries that leverage gdal/ogr/proj - basically the same stuff QGIS is built on.

We also use MySQL and its limited spatial functionality. We use PostGIS and SpatiaLite too. SpatiaLite can be a great way to get a lot of data into QGIS in a form that can be queried pretty efficiently.
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Nunya Bidness 2y ago

Losing access to a metric shit ton of software when I left my position at Texas Tech . . . I knew it was going to suck but no amount of preparing yourself for the inevitable actually prepares yourself at all.

I used to build the computer image for our labs' computers and when I was done shoving all of our licensed software into it the SSD held something like 250 GB.

Matlab

Simulink

ESRI

The entire catalogs of Autodesk and Adobe

Unity, Houdini, Unreal Engine

The list goes on and on.

Fuuuuuuug . . .

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