QGIS vs awesome-gis

QGIS

QGIS is a free, open source, cross platform (lin/win/mac) geographical information system (GIS) (by qgis)

😎Awesome GIS is a collection of geospatial related sources, including cartographic tools, geoanalysis tools, developer tools, data, conference & communities, news, massive open online course, some amazing map sites, and more. (by sshuair)

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QGIS		awesome-gis
	Project
81	Mentions	4
9,585	Stars	4,150
2.3%	Growth	-
10.0	Activity	5.0
5 days ago	Latest Commit	about 2 months ago
C++	Language
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

QGIS

Posts with mentions or reviews of QGIS. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-26.

Spatial Search of Amazon S3 Express One Zone Data with Amazon Athena and Visualized It in QGIS
1 project | dev.to | 18 Dec 2023

Prepare GIS data for use with Amazon Athena. This time, we created four types of sample data in QGIS in advance.
Best way to mimic ESRI / ArcGIS Web App?
1 project | /r/web_design | 11 Dec 2023

I am using Qgis to try to edit the map database and add polygon territories for any future changes to the GeoJSON that I created/edited.
QGIS 3.32 warns you to switch to X11 if started in a Wayland session
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Nov 2023
Help with Generate XYZ tiles (Directory) tool ignoring empty space cells.
1 project | /r/QGIS | 20 Jun 2023

Judging by this open issue in the QGIS repo it doesn't seem to be possible to skip fully transparent tiles.
Why does QGIS take so long to copy and paste 80000 geometries?
1 project | /r/gis | 2 Jun 2023

In the most generic, high level way: grab the source code, start up a debugging session with a profiler, and see what/where the bottleneck is. Bonus points for documenting the issue and submitting a bug report. Extra double bonus points for opening a pull request to
12 Open Source GIS Software
5 projects | /r/u_Long-Experience8779 | 26 May 2023

Access: QGIS
Just finished my two month interrail trip and wanted to show my map! Red are trains, blue are ferries and green are busses. Total distance was 17.000 km, of which 9.500 were done with a train
1 project | /r/Interrail | 28 Apr 2023

Hi! I used QGIS to create the map and BRouter to create the lines as routes. Does help that GIS is one of the major parts of my profession so I'm fairly familiar with designing maps
Visualizing Cycling Trails on a single Map, is there an app?
1 project | /r/bicycletouring | 22 Apr 2023

qgis Desktop software.
Temporal controller BC dates?
1 project | /r/QGIS | 16 Apr 2023

Oh hm i may have misunderstood this answer: https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/36683
Is there a way to reclassify a raster with Natural Breaks jenks?
1 project | /r/QGIS | 25 Mar 2023

Adding natural breaks to symbology for rasters is an open feature request (since 2020) https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/39746

awesome-gis

Posts with mentions or reviews of awesome-gis. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-15.

GIS data for a project. I apologize for the banality of my request and for my English.
9 projects | /r/datasets | 15 Mar 2023
Advice about a school project
3 projects | /r/gis | 15 Feb 2023

https://github.com/sacridini/Awesome-Geospatial https://github.com/sshuair/awesome-gis https://awesome-python.com/
Downloading the entire Earth's satellite imagery?
4 projects | /r/DataHoarder | 19 Apr 2021

And finally it's worth digging around this "awesome-gis" GitHub page.
What GIS do you recommend
1 project | /r/gis | 13 Feb 2021

For GIS programming, a good place to start exploring would be https://github.com/sshuair/awesome-gis. This list can be intimidating, but the GIS world outside of school generally is.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing QGIS and awesome-gis you can also consider the following projects:

Openstreetmap - The Rails application that powers OpenStreetMap

Mapsui - Mapsui is a .NET Map component for: MAUI, WPF, Avalonia, Uno, Blazor, WinUI, Xamarin and Eto

open-source-exandria - A repository for fans of Critical Role to contribute to the data behind the interactive fantasy map for the show or copy it and make your own maps!

Awesome-Geospatial - Long list of geospatial tools and resources

profanity - Ncurses based XMPP client

awesome-bigdata - A curated list of awesome big data frameworks, ressources and other awesomeness.

Awesome-Historic_al-Maps - Historic(al) Maps: Meta guidance, tools, repositories, databases, search engines, and online resources for the exploration of Historic and Historical Maps.

geoserver - Official GeoServer repository

geoblender - Tutorials for making 3D-looking maps with Blender and QGIS

gdal - GDAL is an open source MIT licensed translator library for raster and vector geospatial data formats.

awesome-satellite-imagery-datasets - 🛰️ List of satellite image training datasets with annotations for computer vision and deep learning