Translations:GIS AH Intro/65/en
- It's free. Anyone can download it and use it - it costs nothing.
- It's powerful - as powerful and sophisticated as most high-level, expensive GIS software packages you buy off the shelf.
- It's open source which means you can sponsor the development of a feature, or add it yourself if you are familiar with programming. You are free to make it grow to suit your needs.
- It's constantly developing. Because anyone can add new features and improve on existing ones, QGIS never stagnates. The development of a new tool can happen as quickly as you need it to.
- Extensive help and documentation is available. If you're stuck with anything, you can turn to the extensive documentation, your fellow QGIS users, or even the developers.
- Cross-platform. QGIS can be installed on MacOS, Windows and Linux.