My Experience with QGIS
Hello there! My name is Ethan Zhao (exyzhao) and I am a participant of the Google Code-In 2017, in which I work with OSGeo (Open Source Geospatial Foundation) . The basis of OSGeo is FOSS, or free and open source software, allowing users to access cutting-edge geospatial technology around the world regardless of financial situation. For these weeks I did a large majority of my work in QGIS (Quantum GIS), discovering layers and exploring the world of open source mapping. QGIS enables users to “create, edit, visualize, analyze and publish geospatial” data (Definition taken off qgis.org). What surprised me was that the tasks involving QGIS could be solved quite efficiently by the plethora of plugins and amazing functionality. The installation of QGIS was very straightforward. Having used QGIS through both Windows and Ubuntu by Virtualbox , I had no trouble accessing QGIS. On both platforms, a beginner like me was easily able to dive in with Natural Earth , thanks t...