[HN Gopher] Getting Started with QGIS, PostgreSQL and PostGIS
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Getting Started with QGIS, PostgreSQL and PostGIS
Author : Tomte
Score : 83 points
Date : 2021-12-26 11:16 UTC (11 hours ago)
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| brightball wrote:
| Solid read! I hadn't heard if QGIS before but I'll have to make a
| mental note to look into it now.
| julosflb wrote:
| I recently discovered Qgis as I had to put on maps various data.
| I was quite amazed by its capabilities while being relatively
| easy to learn. Definitely a great open source achievement!
| vgeek wrote:
| It is one of the best pieces of software that I've ever used.
| Unfortunately, it commonly gets overlooked because of the
| entrenched 800lb gorilla of ESRI locking in users while they're
| still in college.
| dbetteridge wrote:
| ESRI is also so insanely slow and cumbersome by comparison.
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| Mix up PostGIS generating vector tiles with Redis for caching
| and you've got an insanely fast mapping stack.
| lokimedes wrote:
| QGIS is great, and for people entering the GIS rabbit hole,
| another rewarding acquaintance is ESA's SNAP [1]. It is a
| powerful toolkit for downloading and processing satellite imagery
| from ESA satellites.
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| QGIS and SNAP fits together through their respective python
| bindings.
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| Behind both is GDAL [2] the omniconverter of coordinate systems
| and files.
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| [1] https://step.esa.int/main/toolboxes/snap/
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| [2] https://gdal.org/
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