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Differences Between ArcGIS and QGIS Final

QGIS is able to consume a wide variety of data formats and allows users to easily add data through its interface. Both QGIS and ArcGIS allow users to manage geospatial data and metadata, create table joins, and handle coordinate systems and projections. While ArcGIS has different license levels that restrict tool access, all tools are freely available in QGIS. QGIS also has many plugins, supports remote sensing, and allows users to create high quality maps, symbology, labels, and thematic maps. Both provide functionality for data entry as well. QGIS documentation is informative and has an active community for support.

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Differences Between ArcGIS and QGIS Final

QGIS is able to consume a wide variety of data formats and allows users to easily add data through its interface. Both QGIS and ArcGIS allow users to manage geospatial data and metadata, create table joins, and handle coordinate systems and projections. While ArcGIS has different license levels that restrict tool access, all tools are freely available in QGIS. QGIS also has many plugins, supports remote sensing, and allows users to create high quality maps, symbology, labels, and thematic maps. Both provide functionality for data entry as well. QGIS documentation is informative and has an active community for support.

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DIFFERENCES BETWEEN

ARCGIS AND QGIS


QGIS consumes all types of data

❖ QGIS has the edge for consuming data.


QGIS is versatile. Over 70 vector formats are supported.
❖ QGIS was born to work with PostGIS and for
GIS format consumption
• Instead of pounding the pavement to load your NetCDF files,
QGIS will consume it for YOU.
• Instead of wasting time trying to add space-delimited files, the
QGIS interface lets you roll it in 24 hours a day.
• Instead of poring over piles of conflicting and confusing GIS
formats, simply consume it with QGIS.
SIMPLICITY IS BEAUTY FOR USER EXPERIENCE

❖ “Add Data” button:


❖ Think about it:
o Do you want to add a spreadsheet? Do you want to add a
raster? Push the “Add Data” button. It’s that easy.
o In QGIS, do you want to add a spreadsheet?
o Click the “Add Vector” button. Select the all data formats
drop-down.
EXPLORE GEODATA WITH ARCCATALOG AND

QGIS BROWSER

❖ QGIS Browser and ArcCatalog are stand-alone GIS data


management applications.
❖ These applications help many manage their raster, vector and GIS
data. They give basic preview functions but the focus is on data
access and organization.
❖ A part of managing data is creating metadata. When was it created?
Who is the creator? How was it made? The answers can be found
in metadata.
❖ Both QGIS Browser and ArcCatalog help to easily navigate in
your filesystem and manage geodata
FEARLESSLY JOIN TABLES IN ARCMAP AND QGIS
❖ When you join a table to spatial data, you’re putting each row
on the map.
❖ Creating table joins is intuitive in ArcGIS. In ArcMap, you can
right-click a layer and select ‘join’. You can also join via the
layer properties.
❖ It’s just as simple in QGIS.
❖ In QGIS, you can join tables with the layer properties. When you
make a table joins in QGIS, it gives the option to rename the
prefix of that specific join.
ARCGIS AND QGIS HIT THE BULLSEYE

FOR COORDINATE SYSTEMS AND PROJECTIONS

❖ QGIS has support for 2,700 known coordinate reference systems


(CRS). It allows you to define custom CRS and supports on-the-fly
projection of vector and raster layers.
❖ Both ArcGIS and QGIS handle CRS in a user-friendly way.
LICENSED TO GEOPROCESS
❖ “Licensed to geoprocess” sounds like a really bad movie. ArcGIS
is the villain forcing you to connect to your license. QGIS is the
open source hero.
❖ Your license level determines
which tools you can use in ArcGIS.
A basic license gives you
access to a large number of
powerful tools. An advanced
license gives you access to
everything.
o There are no license levels in QGIS.
o If you want to use the erase tool in ArcGIS 10, you’d have to
turn on the advanced license. If there are no available advanced
licenses, it means you can’t use the erase tool.
o The erase tool is readily available in QGIS in the Vector Analysis
toolbox. It isn’t available with a basic ArcGIS license.
HAVE NO FEAR, THE PLUGINS ARE HERE
❖ QGIS has boatloads of plugins to solve everyday GIS problems.
QGIS REMOTE SENSING TOOLS

❖ QGIS and ArcGIS present a myriad of tools for remote sensing..


Some of these are like hand tools, like a chisel. Others are
like power tools, like an electric drill.
❖ The QGIS semi-automatic classification plugin lets you download
Landsat imagery and classify them in a semi-automatic way.
❖ LASTools can be integrated to handle LiDAR. LASTools has
always been solid for LiDAR handling.
DESIGN A CARTOGRAPHICAL MASTERPIECE IN ARCGIS

AND QGIS
❖ QGIS is a viable option to create cartographic masterpieces. QGIS
mapping interface is called ‘Print Composer’.
CREATE SYMBOLOGY THAT ROCKS YOUR READERS’

WORLD IN QGIS
❖ Life is easier in QGIS with symbology like railways and hatched
polygons.
DESIGN DYNAMITE LABELS & ANNOTATION IN QGIS

❖ Labeling is fantastic in QGIS. QGIS is a whole new level of style.


▪ Buffer text with a flaring glow.
▪ Add drop shadows for style points.
▪ Set transparencies, blending modes and offsets
CONSTRUCT COLOR-CODED THEMATIC MAPS
❖ For thematic mapping in QGIS, cartographers have a range of
options – graduate colors, graduated symbols, proportional
symbols and dot density. Symbolize numeric data with pie,
bar/column, histograms and text diagrams.
❖ One of the unique tools in QGIS is the heatmap display. Take a
point data set and instantly create a heat map (without raster
conversion). Adjust the radius, color ramp, transparency and
blending mode.
❖ You can symbolize multiple fields in QGIS using the “set column
expression” or “rule-based expression”.
❖ Using QGIS, you can become a thematic mapping legend.
PERFORM DATA ENTRY LIKE A PRO

❖ Both QGIS and ArcGIS are hard-hitting GIS data entry


machines. They both provide similar functionality.
❖ When you create a shapefile in QGIS, you are prompted to set
up your fields (text, whole, decimal number or date).
❖ When fields are created in QGIS, you can rename them using
the Table Manager plugin.

❖ In geodatabases, users can set up subtypes, domains and default


data entry. When users start entering attribute information, they
can select from drop-down lists.
DOCUMENTATION
❖ QGIS documentation is very good. It’s informative. It’s well-
written. It’s practical.

❖ While GIS Stack Exchange is the central community hub for QGIS
users.

❖ QGIS support is very active. A dedicated volunteer community


supports QGIS newbies.
LET’S WRAP THINGS UP

❖ You can’t go wrong with either GIS mapping software –


QGIS or ArcGIS.
❖ QGIS is free. It has multi-language support. It relies on volunteer
efforts which is really good. It has huge support on stack
exchange.
❖ The more you work in QGIS, the more hidden gems you find:
interactive pivot tables with GroupStats, adding CSVs with
simplicity and the stunning cartographical symobology and
labeling options.

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