QGIS vs Google Earth Pro: 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.

Ahmed A

Geographic information systems specialist

What I liked most about the Google Earth Pro program is the good services it provides with reasonable quality and in an easy way, all of which is completely free.

Prabhakar P

Student

It has some lagging problem and also street view not updates in some places.

ERIC EMMANUEL E

PROPRIETOR

Easy to navigate, high resolution graphics, helpful in locating nice places, lots of options to view places, ability to measure properties and distance of other places.

When I situate the potential building on site, there is no way for me to get rid of current buildings and surroundings which sometimes come in conflict.

The tool is super useful for the Geographical Information system of your custom locations. The 3D flying system to view buildings is very awesome.

Hakob H

Applications Engineer

As for cons, I haven't experience any problems with Google Earth Pro. The only weak part of Google Maps in general is that it's not as precise or detailed as open-source maps.

Mohammad M

Software developer

A wonderful application that can take you to any area in the world in seconds, its updated regularly, Colors and photos taken are wonderful.

sanhita s

owner

Some areas are blurred which makes it difficult to analyze.