QGIS vs AO Prospect: Which is a better fit?

Having the ability to integrate many different file types is a great feature that makes this software awesome.

Cooper C

Architectural Historian

The opensource nature of the product led to a lack of overall support and compatibility. I experienced constant problems, slow-downs, freezes, and crashes with the program.

Easy to use, for free, the people that runs the software are awesome, you can choose to pay to help the development, the best.

As I'm very new to QGIS, it's sometimes difficult to find all the functions that I need, there are a lot of options which can make it difficult in use.

Katie K

HR Associate

My over all experience with QGIS is great. It's an amazing value with it's community created tool box.

Omar O

Environmental Engineer

It has very few points against it, maybe it takes a little while to process heavy images and it has many updates that sometimes confuse me.

Carlos C

Research Fellow

Powerful, reliable, easy to use, extendable... and free (as in free beer and free speech).

Pedro P

Architect student

Something I don't like is that sometimes the application closes and does not have recovered files, so you have to start again.

Jonathan J

Project Development Operations Manager

The customer support we've received has been fantastic, as the AO team has helped us to build a custom solution to interface with our Salesforce CRM to track status of different opportunities.

The only negative that I think someone might have, and this doesn't apply to us, is that you don't have access to every state at once. Maybe that has changed or maybe that's available, but costly.

The ease of use and power of the product to prospect for land parcels for my solar developers is exceptional. This coupled with the CS team at AO makes for a great business relationship.

Sometimes very slow or have to refresh which can be frustrating. Needs more maps integration (power plant retirements, etc).

What I like the most is how easy and fast it is to use and we can customize our user profile and setting to have the exports exactly how we want them.

Jonathan J

Project Development Operations Manager

For particularly large projects with 500+ parcels, AO tends to slow down quite significantly which can make it difficult to navigate within the project or run buildable area analyses.

AO has come a long way and has a very good support and tech team to answer any questions or resolve any issues we have in a timely manner.

At first navigating through various functions can be a little confusing but it was a learning curve.