Esri’s ArcGIS is a commercially available suite of software that includes three desktop versions with varying levels of complexity, mobile, and web components. Since many of those articles are created from an ArcGIS user point of view, they invariably lead to biased observations on QGIS lack of features. QGIS is a freely downloadable open source GIS software suite that has a popular desktop option, mobile, and web component. Note: The two GlobalMapper results are a bit funny, perhaps always minutes? 2) Free and Open Source Software Softwareĭell PowerEdge 2950 from 2008, Intel Xeon 2. From time to time, I read articles comparing ArcGIS vs QGIS. Invalid Topology Failed to execute (Clip)ĮSRI promise to calculate it in 34 seconds in this updated version (did anyone test?) Global ID and GUID data types store registry style strings consisting of 36 characters enclosed in curly brackets. See Choose a unique identifier field for a query layer for more information. The blog page gained a lot of comments, even from ESRI since some ArcGIS versions crashed on this test data set.įind below the various timings compiled from the blog and the comments: 1) Proprietary software SoftwareĬrash after 1h 9min: ERROR 999999: Error executing function. If ArcGIS cannot find a not null, integer field to use as an object identifier, you will be prompted to choose a field. While in ARCGIS, fields can be created with integers, float, text, etc. When a shapefile is being created in QGIS, you will be promoted to fill the fields with texts, whole or decimal numbers.
The benchmark contest data set in question is a 878MB ZIP file ( ContourClipTest.zip with the (guessed) EPSG Code 2260 – NAD83 / New York East (ftUS)). Although both ArcGIS and QGIS provide similar functionality when it comes to data entry. Earlier this Last year, in June, Don Meltz wrote an interesting blog “ ArcGIS vs QGIS Clipping Contest Rematch” where he let compete ArcGIS and Quantum GIS in a clipping contest.