We are living in the modern era, where we can see an everyday new trend going viral and importantly a new technology born. When we talk about technologies GIS is also one of them in the list that makes our daily life more interesting and swiftly. GIS is nothing but a computer system that captures, stores, analyzes, monitors, and displays the geographical data that we gathered.

In the GIS world, there is a lot of software and applications to build the industry on a day-to-day basis, among the software QGIS is also the one that helps the industry grow. In this blog, we can learn about the simple 10 reasons why we should consider using QGIS.

1. QGIS is a Multi-platform that can run Anywhere

The first reason considers using QGIS, it is a multi-platform. We can get installation packages for Mac, PC, and Linux. There’s a Q field for QGIS available for Android in the play store. Even the QGIS can run on the Chromebook and compatible tablets. Because the QGIS is multi-platform, currently, users of QGIS are increasing than other commercial software.

2. Drag and Drop

QGIS is used to store and control any raster and vector GIS data and visualize them. When we working with GIS data, we got our data from different types of systems or formats such as AutoCAD (DWG/DXF), Excel (CSV/XLS), ESRI shapefiles (SHP/DBF/SHX), AND OpenStreetMap(OSM).

GIS data gathered from different sources when under bigger projects the data even comes under different formats and we have to load them all and make them into one format for our work. QGIS is good at this work and we can drag the different files and drop them in a second, which gives us a great deal of time at our work.

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