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Thanks Matt, can you share the tutorial you just showed in the video?

Great video, very informative. Can you please add the link to the website you mentioned at the end, that shows all the examples. Thanks for making such informative videos about the power of Python and Spatial SQL. I recently completed a course in geospatial programming in my Masters but we never explored the geoprocessing capabilities in python. You channel has been a great resource for learning about it. Thanks

Sir,to you have any online courses? Especially python for gis I’m a beginner and I really want to learn but I can’t find the right steps to start the thing is there’s only complete python course available in the CZcams and I feel like I don’t want to waste my whole time learning everything which is not going to be relevant in gis field

if the sole purpose of using GIS software, is the creation of custom maps for presentation and explaination in video, which one will be more suitable (more easier and rich in feature for represention with some animation of map), ArcGIS or QGIS?

It’s almost like they don’t want us to see the pole regions.

Watched it and still don't understand what the s/w actually does. I need a mobile mapping application for mapping out mine sites here in BC. Can I use this for that purpose and hook my GPS puck into my win 11 machine ?

Matt, I worry that you won't get comped for the UC ...

Can i do data analytics in gis if I have no special Peper in geography but had this subject in general

I work as an archaeologist in the private sector and thinking about taking a GIS certification course to in the future segue from archaeology. We use GIS all the time in my industry, mostly for making maps on the spatial relations of cultural resources in the field. Thanks for clarifying the GIS analyst role a bit better. I assume the salaries for the analyst role are comparable to an entry level position.

Thanks for sharing useful knowledge.

I want to learn Python for Geospatial Analytics. How do I start this journey?

How can I use machine learning python (random forest , KNN, ...) FOR Google earth engine ? Thanks for your help to me , God bless you

Can i set ee.Reducer.max instead of median or mean in air pollutiom?

Thank you for sharing this valuable info. You seem to have a gift and natural talent for producing excellent videos Matt. Thanks again.

Well, ESRI especially (ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Story Map) it was a game changer in GIS for me. In current t specific aspects in USA market, most govs departments are integrated by ESRI system - and don’t have any restrictions, so I have full access to public resources. Many clients, ask me for data that is integrated there - my first search browser is ArcGIS online. Another thing you don't have to pay attention for security, versions, data formats, and service optimizations or maintenance systems. Yes, open source is good, especially for local data storage. If you want to go to the web with stored hundred GB of your own datasets and you have a team with IT members (Frontend desktop/mobile, Backend, Admin, and Database) who provide all things for you, open-source is for you. Because in this case, ESRI might be pretty expensive - it always depends. If you are working solo or small team - I definitely recommend ESRI system - because you avoid many other time costs, to provide a great safe ecosystem to provide content to publish into good possibilities by many ESRI apps.

Great video, thanks. It's great to know another options in GIS. In latinamerica it's not easy that small countries has enough resources for pay ESRI License.

That thumbnail got me Matt!

I agree that those who think ChatGPT and AI can replace people aren't thinking right. Way back they said the same thing about the internet as well. It isn't that these tools will replace people, it is that these tools will help people work more better and make life easy. I use ChatGPT to write PyQGIS codes. From the simplest task like loading 53 layers from a folder into QGIS to clipping network assets based on certain criteria. While plugins are great, PyQGIS just does the batch work easily and also saves the layers in folders as you want them. I owe ChatGPT for making my life easy and allowing me to stick to the strict deadlines I often have in my line of work. On a side note, co-pilot I find writes codes better than ChatGPT, and I don't know why. Anyone experienced the same thing?

Loveeeeeee!

I think typing in Python would solve >80% of my problems. I've got some major refactoring coming my way one day. Most of the arcpy issues I've ever had relate to data types being incorrect during coercion into C for the gp ArcObjects tools to run (for anyone getting into programming, especially Python, forcing a hard requirement for a correct data type means that you catch a problem a lot earlier and more explicitly, so you're not hunting through code wondering where something came from and why it's not working).

This is exactly what I needed. College is great for learning ArcGIS, but they preset so many things. I was lost on opening QGIS and not knowing I needed to install a few basic plug-ins to start.

For iraninan boy is impossible ❤❤❤

Don't believe these excuses and lies

There's always a Matt on every GIS team. And whenever anyone needs help, just look for Matt! Thanks Matt!

Sir can you sent your email id

totally agree! sometimes I got the idea from teammates where data pipelines shall be something complicated. while it's just simply about directing the flow of data. only when we need to incorporate queries/immediate view in middle of processing...

I remember trying to use QGIS in 2008. Gave up, but when I came back around 2019 it was much easier to use. Also, some of us work with large institutions (state government) that do not allow open source. So we won't be quitting Esri anytime soon.

Hey Matt, interesting case. Your title struck a cord and made me wonder how other software stack up. I'm a bit of lay-person here regarding the exact intricacies of working with GIS software, but what other paid software would you suggest that isn't open source? Or would you say there is no comparison on that field?

Why the "&&"? So it's one line for the command line?

Thank you for the tutorial, I learned a lot of new skills

I used to teach students using ArcGIS and QGIS, side-by-side, because we thought it was important for our students to learn GIS concepts while being as software agnostic as possible. Unfortunately, our college students spent way too much time cross-walking between the two platforms (juggling both the idiosyncrasies and the jargons) at the expense of the quality times on task needed to develop working cartography and spatial thinking skills. We quickly realized our idea was likely a good andragogic approach (a good way to teach adult learners), but a poor pedagogic approach (a bad way to nurture still-developing college students). So, we consulted our advisory board and shifted to Esri, which also holds the conspicuous market advantage in our region. When we started using drones, circa 2014, and the specialized softwares that go with, we felt much better about our shift into the Esri ecosystem. Yes, Esri isn't perfect and, yes, QGIS is a wonderful open-source alternative, but, in our case, we learned how to leverage the Esri ecosystem for better pedagogy (and better employment potential in our region), and we learned how to rely on other geotechnologies (UAVs, GNSS, GPR, etc.) to help us expose our students to other spatial thinking environments.

Great stuff a billion $ company and ESRI fall short on far too many things

The biggest point is that ESRI has an integration between ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online AGOL. You pay money for the Feature services and the ability to publish maps online. With QGIS, you must set up the infrastructure yourself with cloud (PostGIS, networking, etc.), which is cumbersome; also, creating your own HTML map. You do save money. Unless you are spending for ESRI Enterprise or AGOL, I don't think it is worth it.

I think something that's difficult with modern GIS software is cartography. It's definitely gotten better in ArcPro than what it used to be but making beautiful maps requires you use other software such as Illustrator. Open source options exist with programs such as Inkscape which are helpful but it would be nice to keep everything in one program

Hi Matt, can you make a video on how to use Docker, gdals, and SQL? I've been trying to figure it out from your book but I think you may have hopped over some explanations.

Is there a way to improve the video quality? The highest resolution I can get for this video is 720p. The text is hard to read at that resolution.

The question is...to be or not to be...lazy! 😅

I’m just gana grab some🍿 , brb

Something that has really shocked me coming into the GIS world from UX design is just how bad the UX is in most GIS software. The amount of basic UX issues in ArcGIS Pro constantly blows my mind, but all I hear back from my professors is "ArcMap was so much worse". Every activity I have tried to do in ArcGIS Pro so far has been clunky and frustrating: spatial data analysis, map layout, design, etc. I struggle to think of a single user type that is well served by the software. I'm also shocked at how laggy and slow the software is, despite having maxed out the ESRI recommended specs on my desktop. It feels like bloated legacy software from a company stuck in the early 2000s. And then I found out how much a license costs! I'd contrast ESRI with Adobe. In the design space Adobe is the market leader, offering professional tools at a relatively high price. They have complex user needs and functionality, and yet they manage to make software that is user-friendly (albeit with a steep learning curve). QGIS is similarly clunky, but at least it's free, cross-platform, and open-source. Can't wait to finish my studies and hopefully not have to engage with ESRI again🤞

Not even once

Wild guess - it's overcomplicated, outdated, overpriced, and predatory?

There are 99999 reasons why Matt is correct. Having consulted on the underlying structure of a no-code interface to Earth Engine, I am amazed by the poor design practices that Esri uses and its unreliability. I used to think ESRI wasn't capable of making a better product but now I believe it is intentional. A confusing interface requires professionals who are Arcgis experts to be involved in all phases of the geospatial process, thus ensuring job security for those experts, who then recommend ESRI products to their employers,. What I'd like to see is a well designed interface to postgis that covers the 10 or 20 most common vector GIS commands and has useful error messages, illustrations of the purpose of options and pre-execution sanity checks. For more advanced users, you would always have spatial SQL as a backup. I believe that the, 80/20 rule applies to gis packages- for the average user, 80% of their workload is done with 20% of the available commands (probably fewer). 😮

14 years of qgis and arc .... qgis is the workhorse and arc is for pretty maps ... arc without q is not feasible. qgis has it twerks but once u over come them it's a beast but everything is manual where esri make it too easy for you. always learn new way to do one thing until u find the most efficient way to i hand data between multiple entities qgis with google drive and user profiles and geopackges and styles saved in them saved my life many times i can hop form one project to another and each one has it owns plugins and tools once i'm done i make pretty maps in arc 😂

The right tool for the right job! A GIS expert shouldn't be dogmatic or tribal. Open-source isn't free. I've seen many managers going open-source (e.g QGIS) because it's free (to download and install) and ignore all other costs. On the other hand, maybe your project's GIS needs don't require a wall garden license costing thousands of dollars from Esri or others that market themselves as anti-Esri but just want to be Esri 2.0.

I use to use open source for my graduate thieses which it takes me to spend alot of time for the works that takes few minutes with esri software

Hi Matt, it's a some time that I have commented in your videos. The thing that caught my eye is that quitting ESRI all together. Well, I will share my opinion with you. In my master's of Geology we were taught the Remote Sensing and GIS course primarily in QGIS, in the very beginning, but the modular form of the QGIS is something students aren't quite getting into so they shifted towards ArcGIS. The pros as using ArcGIS is it is very Microsft 365 like. You have structured UI which you can easily understand and I guess it's easy to use. But that makes you so wired that you forget sometimes that how the things actually working, which you easily learn in the QGIS. In my thesis, I have used Planet's data to process, extensively used ArcGIS, and I came to understand that if you're missing the basics of how the things actually work you are doomed especially in the research field. You have to have your fair share of experiences in modular tools like QGIS, or going purely programming to do what you intend to do. I do understand the motion of using ArcGIS. Yes, they are the Adobe of the Geospatial world with all the bells and whistles and it's pretty, but if you really want to learn and have a deeper understanding of the things, then one should go for Open Source. So, as of now, though getting certifications from ArcGIS I believe is a way to convey your understanding about various geospatial skills, but I believe that your true understanding will rely on how much depth you hold through the Open Source. I guess I have conveyed my opinion correctly.

I think this is fine if you are a freelancer, own your won business or just want to expand your GIS knowledge. I think ESRI works a little more seamlessly in the corporate sector when you have to roll out "homogenous" solutions across a team in multiple locations. Bare in mind that the corporation itself covers all the costs. But I love getting out of the ESRI ecosystem. Great video.

Most roles I have come across require proficiency in ESRI tools. I believe it is helpful to learn both proprietary and open-source tools

Haven't encountered Esri in the last 5 years except in the government and non-profit sector.🤔

My question is, could using only paid software be limiting your career? I stopped using it myself because I didn't have the money to buy a license. I know that there are many vacancies that require knowledge, but I don't like putting my money into just one software.