▲ 112 ▼ and it is still better than Arcgis (mander.xyz) submitted 1 month ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to c/science_memes@mander.xyz 13 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] fossilesque@mander.xyz [S] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] poinck@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago I use rgdal in R to avoid doing statistics with QGIS. But for thematic maps I find it very useful. And for nicer looking legends on maps I use Inkscape. The true power of open source for me is, that you use many programs together to achieve a result that can beat closed source software. It is sometime more work to do so, when you aim for near perfection. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] poinck@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago I use rgdal in R to avoid doing statistics with QGIS. But for thematic maps I find it very useful. And for nicer looking legends on maps I use Inkscape. The true power of open source for me is, that you use many programs together to achieve a result that can beat closed source software. It is sometime more work to do so, when you aim for near perfection. permalink fedilink source parent
