all the forests i managed have a complete qgis cartography: species plots, age plots, density/volume, etc. also i produce maps for the workers to get to the spot i need them to do stuff: log, make a road, plant treelings, survey a pond, whatever.

in france the lidar collection of data is almost entirely done, we can get numerical model of the terrain and tree heights, it's awesome in qgis!

qgis is the best gis software ever... i use it weekly, almost daily.

my next move would be to learn how to make my own plugins.

ps: i'm a forester, fwiw :)

Also in forestry.

Recently I explained to a student that Arc Pro is kind of like the Disney of GIS software. It’s powerful and colorful and very well known, but if you try and do things it doesn’t like, you’re going to have a bad time.

QGIS is my daily driver. It’s so much lighter and so much less bloat, it’s just wildly more efficient. These days I pretty much use Arc for machine learning features.

> if you try and do things it doesn’t like, you’re going to have a bad time.

Also that there's the 'Esri' way of doing things, and the 'platform independent' (more-or-less) way of doing things which do not play well with 'Esri-isms'.

Esri does have some really nice enterprise components though; I haven't yet found a remotely user-friendly open-source equivalent to Workflow Manager Server or Data Interop., or an as-polished ArcGIS Portal yet, though I constantly keep a look out.

QField is getting better and better, too. I wish I knew C++ well enough to help develop it further.

yeah! qfield rocks... it got way better the last few months. it starts being part of my daily routine as well.

I've worked with developing plugins for QGIS. It's just Python and PyQT, along with a bunch of things provided by QGIS itself. Overall a very pleasant experience, and their docs are pretty good too.

ooo what plugins does a forester need? (just curious cuz forestry is an interest of mine)

my partner is working on a piece of software to predict late frosting for a data science company (it kills your seedling plantations, if you are into that sort of thing, i don't but sometimes the client wants it) so i was considering adding that to qgis as the data is available freely.