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QGIS is a free, open source, cross platform (lin/win/mac) geographical information system (GIS)

11 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 6 stories, 5 comments · first 2017-10-23 · latest 2026-10-12

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  1. More LLM allergies. Look at this PR: https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/67731/files The code change is so simple that Claude today could easily write this code. How will they know if an LLM wrote the code? They won't. And this policy will…
    comment by throwaway2037 · 2026-10-12 · in QGIS enacts moratorium on AI contributions
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    A prototype ribbon menu for QGIS
    story by marklit · 2026-09-25 · 0 comments
  3. It appears so, the release is tracked here and isn't complete: https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/milestone/226
    comment by erikerikson · 2026-03-07 · in QGIS 4.0
  4. …simplification of features on the server side, but these are very new QGISs also take a look here https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Ao...
  5. …whereas the conda/mamba version has an osx-arm64 build. There are other workarounds discussed here: https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/46299 and here https://geo.malagis.com/native-qgis-on-apple-silicon-solutio...
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    QGIS is a free, open-source, cross platform geographical information system
    story by rcarmo · 2025-09-12 · 127 comments
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    QGIS 3.32 warns you to switch to X11 if started in a Wayland session
    story by starkparker · 2023-11-05 · 1 comment
  8. Looks like they have Github sponsors set up too: https://github.com/qgis/QGIS
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    Crimea and Sevastopol were restored to belong to the Ukraine
    story by app4soft · 2022-04-29 · 1 comment
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    QGIS, Open source GIS
    story by brudgers · 2017-10-23 · 0 comments
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    GeoPackage is now the default file format for QGIS replacing Esri's Shapefile
    story by ermias · 2017-10-23 · 0 comments