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The moment I graduated and lost access to ArcGIS I got out QGIS and become ridiculously empowered. Yea Arc has Python APIs for some things but QGIS, while rough in the UI department, gives you powerful access to everything. And it plays so well with other things: check out my presentation on using QGIS in robotics (pdf) https://roscon.ros.org/2018/presentations/ROSCon2018_Unleash...


You could say... you've SLAMmed QGIS onto your robots

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_localization_and_...


QGIS has python bindings that are thin wrappers over the C++ bindings. It works well enough that a complete noob like me was able to use it.


That's a very cool example of somewhat unconventional QGIS use.


I was just thinking the other day of writing a QGIS plugin for handle GNSS data from ROS. Like rviz but more aligned for out application. Very cool!


PRs and maintainers welcome! Regrettably I haven’t worked on it in years. It hasn’t been too important for the direction my job went in. :)


Cool presentation, thanks for sharing it.




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