Question

what is QGIS software ? what are the uses of QGIS software in surveying how it used give one example in detail ?

i need an explannation about QGIS features uses and one example ?

Answer 1

QGIS is a free, open-source Geographic Information System (GIS) that supports viewing, editing, and analyzing geospatial data.The main features of QGIS are

• Application is free to use
• Allows users to do a variety of things including viewing, creating, editing, exporting and managing data, rastering data in many different formats.
• User-friendly Graphical User Interface
• The plugin libraries and architecture are extensible.

QGIS in surveying

• QGIS provides surveyors with a range of tools for planning, implementing, managing, and collating data for a whole surveying project.
• It is great for making drawings, geo referencing pdf drawings or scans and processing geodetic information.
• QGIS is super handy for managing all that data and preparing it for use in CAD.
• Great for mapping
• For surveys with high accuracy, QGIS is used

Examples-

1. Windsor & Maidenhead Borough Council used QGIS for security planning for the recent royal wedding (Prince Harry and Meghan Markle)

2. Use of QGIS in the Geodata Infrastructure of the City of Uster (A QGIS casestudy from QGIS wbsite)

• viewing of waste-water data, integration of additional databases and direct access to canal videos and inspection protocols
• viewing and editing for monitoring and the environmental and urban planning of the waste water and hydrology systems (german: Genereller Entwässerungsplan)
• viewing of underground cadastral data (waste water, water, gas and electricity networks, later also telecommunication) (german: Leitungskataster)
• viewing of cadastral and survey data
• viewing and editing of the communal inventory of protected natural sites
• viewing and editing of urban and regional planning data
• viewing and editing of road infrastructure data
• viewing statistics generated directly from the database of current and past residents
• planning and visualization for energy planning (gas supply regions, heat use from waste water, near-surface geothermal energy, block heating stations, etc.)