Is Qgis a Drop-In Replacement for ArcView?

I’m kind of thinking that has become the case after reading this from a MapInfo user:

The worst part about the rule based rendering [in QGIS] is that I have gotten so used to their power that I feel crippled when I go back to MapInfo and try to do styling :) Yea, cartography has been the one area people still say ArcGIS is king. Times, they be a changing though…

He’s looking at it from a MacInfo user perspective, but you could look at it as a proprietary GIS perspective.

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Is ArcView use about to fall off the ledge?


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June 6, 2011