arcgis time ✌️
Oooh, free and open source! And no I had not, did like a tiny bit of ArcGIS in one lab in one class in college and that's been it :p Ty for the recommendation, I'll definitely check it out :)
Absolutely. QGIS is incredibly powerful, so much so that ESRI re-wraps QGIS/Opensource GIS (Postgres) and calls it their own - in a more palatable and scalable manner in some cases. Opensource GIS can do some absolutely mind-blowing custom work. Talking specifically any combination of QGIS x PostgreSQL x pgAdmin x BlenderGIS. Example 1: Example 2: https://medium.com/@tjukanov/geogiffery-in-a-nutshell-introduction-to-qgis-time-manager-31bb79f2af19 For the record, you CAN get a fully kitted out ArcGIS license to use Pro/AGOL for ~$100/yr as a personal-use only software. No making a profit using their tech at all (that, they charge you many multiples of $10k for). So… just come to the dark side.
you had me at opensource ;) already having fun with QGIS+OpenStreetMap/OpenRouteService & wow those visualizations are cool, had no idea BlenderGIS was a thing either! Is there a better place to find datasets than https://hub.arcgis.com/search ?
It really depends on what you're looking for. Sometimes it just comes down to asking google "[subject of interest] gis data," then finding out where the best data store is located online. For anything Florida related, go to (if there's a specific state/county you have in mind, sometimes google searching "[the state/county] gis data"): https://www.fgdl.org/metadataexplorer/explorer.jsp For anything relating to the U.S. boundaries, go to: https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/geography/guidance/tiger-data-products-guide.html For Census/demographic data, you're in luck the 2020 decennial data is out (maybe helpful if you have a question about best area to service for a gameboard shop): https://data.census.gov/cedsci/ To be fair, there are many datasets also hosted on arcgis hubs, like FAA data: https://adds-faa.opendata.arcgis.com/ There are also non-arcgis options for other datasets: https://flightaware.com/ This all said, feel free to DM me about specific questions or what you are trying to do. I'd be more than happy to help.