Exploring Opportunities with Open Source GIS

Abstract

There are many Commercial software available for various GIS Applications. These Software are very costly and making unaffordable for the General users. So we need an alternate option which is Economical, Feature rich & similar Capabilities as that of Commercial ones. Such possibilities can be explored by Evaluating Open Source GIS software. Recently open source software start playing vital role in Industry, Academics and Research. Quantum GIS (QGIS) is most popular, leading and user friendly open source GIS software. It is very easy to use, extensible, and has a constantly growing community and user base. More and more Private users and organizations choose QGIS as their mainstream GIS software. Hence it is necessary to study the opportunities of this open source software as an alternative to the established proprietary software.