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		morganherlocker 2 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Overthinking GIS (2024) > However those tools do not have the polish that ESRI kit does, but at leas you’re not paying the licensing! Arguably they have more polish, but less GUI. The open GIS world is more CLI, database, and library driven, which can be an advantage for many users trying to build high reliability or scaling systems.

misswaterfairy 2 days ago [–]

Except most GIS Analysts aren't, or don't understand how to.

That's a lot of the reason why Esri still wins a lot of contracts.

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