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QGIS is a very powerful and customizable software. However, one of its shortcomings is that it only comes with one default basemap, Open Street Map. The great thing is that it is very easy to add...
QGIS is an amazingly powerful, free GIS software. In my opinion, it's the best free GIS software there is and even outperforms expensive, enterprise software in some instances (looking at you ESRI)....
Lidar data are 3D point clouds that can describe Earth's surface in great detail. However, lidar point clouds present some challenges because of how much data they contain. One fundamental challenge...
The Point Data Abstraction Library (PDAL) is a powerful, open-source tool designed to work with dense point clouds. PDAL has applications that range from engineering to geography and is especially...
Anaconda is a Python distribution with additional tools to make it easy to manage Python environments and packages. If you're the kind of person that wants to work on a project without worrying about...
The only basemap available with QGIS is Open Street Map. Open Street Map is a good, basic basemap but sometimes context from aerial imagery is required to properly convey the meaning of a map. The...
