GeoPostcodes vs. QGIS

GeoPostcodes

GeoPostcodes

0 Reviews and Ratings

QGIS

QGIS

38 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
GeoPostcodes	Score 0.0 out of 10	N/A	GeoPostcodes aims to provide a complete and accurate zip code database for companies with global footprints. They focus on curating, cleaning, and integrating over 1,500 data sources. Their proprietary data toolkit integrates into an organization's systems and processes.	N/A
QGIS	Score 9.8 out of 10	N/A	QGIS (formerly Quantum GIS) is a free and open source geographic information system.	N/A

Pricing

GeoPostcodes

QGIS

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

QGIS: Free

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
GeoPostcodes	QGIS
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

Optional

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	GeoPostcodes	QGIS
Considered Both Products	GeoPostcodes No answer on this topic	QGIS Mauricio E Gleizer CEO Chose QGIS ArcGIS is extremely expensive, especially for small businesses. The QGIS learning curve is smoother. ArcGis demands more from the hardware. Incentivized Helpful? CHANCY SHAH Geographic Information Systems Engineer Chose QGIS QGIS is open source and freely available for Windows and Mac iOS Geographic Information System Software. QGIS is highly customizable as per project requirements and different application usage. QGIS has ample tools and plugins that are useful for the analysis of raster and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose QGIS Handling ESRI licenses was not an easy task for our organization as we had a large number of users that needed access to GIS capabilities on a very occasional basis. R requires a lot of coding to get a decent-looking map. QGIS hits the spot when it comes to visual … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose QGIS We've used MapInfo, but it is expensive and lacks the wide support that QGIS has. It also doesn't slot in that well with the open-source stack that we use to develop our online GIS tools. We've also evaluated Esri's Arc products. Fantastic tools, but a) exorbitantly expensive, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose QGIS Frankly, QGIS is an inferior tool as compared to ArcGIS as ArcGIS is a market leader in spatial data analysis, offers a family of GIS Suite catering to different needs, has a huge repository of training exercises and tutorials, an organized catalog of data if you need further … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose QGIS We explored ArcGIS a bit and realized that we couldn't afford this approach. We fully realize it's a more complete product offering, but QGIS offered all the needed features for our business requirements. We were able to do online mapping using QGIS exports and Mapbox.com for … Incentivized Helpful? Maike Holthuijzen Ph.D student Chose QGIS I learned GIS with ArcGIS and have used ArcGIS longer than QGIS. Both programs have essentially the same functionality. However, QGIS is free, while users need a license for ArcGIS (individual licenses are available for a few hundred dollars). I really like that QGIS is open … Incentivized Helpful? Ember Urbach, LMSW Assistant REsearcher Chose QGIS ESRI programs like ArcGIS are the gold standard in planning, GIS, and digital data visualization, but QGIS stands up to the ArcGIS package at a lower price point and with excellent training information. ArcGIS has very little other components not found in QGIS, and QGIS has … Incentivized Helpful? Isabel Huamani Planificador Territorial II Chose QGIS Both tools are very powerful. The difference is that QGIS is open source. Experts can develop applications that suit the specific needs of certain users. A big advantage of QGIS is undoubtedly the economic cost, because Qgis is a software almost as powerful as ArcGis. I could … Incentivized Helpful? Cesar A Siso L Analista Chose QGIS First of all QGIS it is a free software in an are that has always been monopolized for big companies like ESRI, in that way QGIS bring the opportunity to know how to work with GIS and how we can manage data from so many formats in only one software. Qgis it is the best … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose QGIS Each of the products have their strong points and their weak points, as well as some products being particularly adept at certain analyses or workflows. That being said, QGIS can do nearly everything all of the above products can do, and it does them for free, with continual … Incentivized Helpful? Vladimir Salnikov Programmer Analyst, Product Manager Chose QGIS QGIS vs. ArcGIS. The main reason is the price of ArcGIS. Most of the functionality is identical in both products, however, interfacing QGIS with external software allows it to dramatically increase processing capabilities. QGIS vs. ERDAS IMAGINE. It is quite good for satellite … Incentivized Helpful?

Best Alternatives
	GeoPostcodes	QGIS
Small Businesses	ArcGIS Score 8.9 out of 10	ArcGIS Score 8.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	ArcGIS Score 8.9 out of 10	ArcGIS Score 8.9 out of 10
Enterprises	ArcGIS Score 8.9 out of 10	ArcGIS Score 8.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
	GeoPostcodes	QGIS
Likelihood to Recommend	- (0 ratings)	9.8 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	GeoPostcodes	QGIS
Likelihood to Recommend	No answers on this topic	Well suited: To build beautiful and dynamic maps quickly. To conduct quantitative and qualitative analyses. To work cross-platform, as both the Windows version and the Linux version are identical in appearance and available resources. Less appropriate: To use and import files from proprietary software such as ArcGIS and AutoCAD. Incentivized Mauricio E Gleizer CEO Read full review
Pros	No answers on this topic	QGIS is free and very easy to install, and no license is required. Not having to deal with licensing issues has saved me considerable time and frustration. The QGIS help community is very active, and it is easy to find answers. Although QGIS does not offer support in the way that ArcMap does, I was always able to google my question and find either a tutorial or website that solved my problem. QGIS seems to crash less often than ArcMap. It is super annoying to have a program crash when you are in the middle of a project, but I have not had any issues with QGIS. Also, QGIS is updated frequently. Incentivized Maike Holthuijzen Ph.D student Read full review
Cons	No answers on this topic	QGIS is hard to use for beginners. A better tutorial and clearer online tutorials could improve this. Labeling interface is overly complicated. Allowing users to manually add labels to relevant items could be helpful. QGIS should have more "wizards" that can easily import common data points (median income, population density, etc) and cross tabulate that with other categories easily from uploaded data. Incentivized Ember Urbach, LMSW Assistant REsearcher Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	I wasn't a GIS user at all when I started using QGIS, nor did I have any background working with data in anything other than Excel, and as a result, I struggled quite a lot in the beginning (it's not quite Google Maps). But having said that, I haven't come across anything that I couldn't do with a little help from the online community. I've done complex spatial analyses on large datasets of metropolitan cities, designed custom multi-page pdf reports that automatically cycle through different areas of an area, etc. And the GIS staff that I've appointed, after their initial resistance, took to the tool like a fish to water, and I haven't heard them complain after starting to use the tool for a week or two. But if you're new to GIS, be patient and invest some time to learn how to use the tool. It is absolutely worth it. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	Even though there is a no dedicated support team for QGIS (or at least we are not aware of it), there is a huge online community and a large number of forums catering to every question you may have regarding any particular functionality of QGIS. So, you have a lot of help available but you will have to sift through it on the web. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	No answers on this topic	QGIS is open source and freely available for Windows and Mac iOS Geographic Information System Software. QGIS is highly customizable as per project requirements and different application usage. QGIS has ample tools and plugins that are useful for the analysis of raster and vector data. It also supports GRASS, GDAL, and SAGA tools. Incentivized CHANCY SHAH Geographic Information Systems Engineer Read full review
Return on Investment	No answers on this topic	We can ingest data in any format, and convert it to industry-standard spatial files for hosting on our online GIS platform. Many client projects require us to analyze and understand data before we can report on it. Because QGIS is free, and the learning curve is negligible for bright GIS technicians, the ROI is practically infinite because the investment is basically zero. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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