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QGIS is a cross-platform GIS application licensed under the GNU General Public License.

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What does feature mean in QGIS?

Notwithstanding whether there are non-geographical features, I think of a feature as being something with geometry (x,y etc) and attributes i.e. a feature is more than geometry. Then when a feature ( …
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Opening ArcGIS Desktop layer package (.lpk) file using QGIS on Mac?

From the Comments it appears that the asker solved this by unzipping the *.lpk to find a *.sdc file that was then converted to shapefile format using instructions from NCSU Libraries' Geospatial Data …
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Transfering styles from QGIS to ArcGIS Desktop

This may not be what you want to hear but I think the best chance you have of having ArcGIS Desktop read SLD files will be to vote for this ArcGIS Idea. Its proposer says: It would be a great interop …
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Difference between .qgs and .qgz

When I searched Google for 'qgz qgs difference' I found “QGZ” – A new default project file format for QGIS: Last year we had the opportunity to implement ‘.QGZ’ as anew variant of the QGIS 3 project …
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Adding ArcToolbox tool to QGIS?

This would be a very expensive route to take but in theory an organisation could use ArcGIS for Server 10.1 to publish your ArcGIS toolbox tool(s) as OGC Web Processing Services (WPS) to be consumed by QGIS
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Choosing projection in Eastern Australia (NSW in particular) for buffer in metres

For state-wide GIS data in NSW the Map projections page of NSW Spatial Services says: GDA Lambert Projection for NSW (GDA94 Lambert, GDA2020 Lambert) This Lambert projection is suitable for state-wid …
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Can ArcGIS ModelBuilder be exported to Python and run in QGIS?

using the ArcGIS ModelBuilder Export this model to Python syntax which you can do without having ANY knowledge of Python because it is an option on the ModelBuilder menu Try running the same script with QGIS … Python, so my answer to your question of doing that for QGIS becomes close to an unqualified "No". …
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Using QGIS to access data delivered by ArcGIS for Server?

As long as the ArcGIS for Server map services have been exposed as a WMS (which is a matter of its administrator ticking a checkbox) then you will be able to add them as WMS layers to QGIS. …
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Is it possible to convert ArcGIS .mxd to QGIS .qgs without having ArcGIS installed?

The MXD format is proprietary to Esri and only readable by products of the ArcGIS Platform (and ArcObjects). Consequently, I think the most likely way that you will be able to read an MXD without usi …
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R Scripts in QGIS 3.0?

As commented by @ndawson: Actually it's not broken - they were removed from the master install, and are waiting for someone to step up and maintain them as a plugin. ... The situation won't ch …
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How to align (georeference) images using QGIS?

I have not georeferenced using QGIS but I found a tutorial that says: In QGIS there are several methods for transforming the image, these include the linear / affine transformation, the Helmert, the 1st …
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Spatial join including attributes - like SQL right join?

I would use the Union tool of ArcGIS for Desktop to do this: Computes a geometric union of the input features. All features and their attributes will be written to the output feature class. Ho …
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How to rasterize a vector map?

You have arcgis as one of your tags so I will answer from that perspective. The tool for converting shapefile features into raster is Feature To Raster. Alternatively, you may want to consider Expor …
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Is there a union function for multiple layers comparable to ArcGIS in open source GIS like Q...

If you are comfortable using Union in ArcGIS for Desktop, then to get around the Basic level licensing restriction to union multiple feature classes together, I usually write a list of the feature cla …
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Getting data from Mapire.eu (website) to QGIS

To view its web maps in QGIS, you could potentially add them as a WMS/WMTS, but that will only work if they provide one. It looks like they do provide a commercial WMTS. …
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