I like that QGIS is open source and solved the licensing problem for us. I use it for data processing, charting, and complex workflows that need pipelines but are below FME complexity. I value being able to create standardized, repeatable data processing pipelines and visualize the results. Using GDAL scripts inside QGIS means I can avoid processing everything from the command line and manually loading data at each step for validation. QGIS also fills a geosciences niche that ESRI isn’t suited for anymore, and the initial setup was very easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some community-published plugins are hit and miss. Plugins I’ve used before don’t always appear when I search for them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.