[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.
           | 
           | 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.
       | 
       | QGIS and SNAP fits together through their respective python
       | bindings.
       | 
       | Behind both is GDAL [2] the omniconverter of coordinate systems
       | and files.
       | 
       | [1] https://step.esa.int/main/toolboxes/snap/
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       | [2] https://gdal.org/
        
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