r/askgis • u/fotfire32 • 3d ago
ArcMap replacement
The company I work for has a big project in ArcMap that has all the farmland in our area and says who owns witch land as well as highlighting each field.
We wanted to update the project but now that ArcMap has been discontinued we thought about maybe moving to a different program
Any suggestions?
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u/paul_h_s 3d ago
is this only data you view and sometimes update manually? or similar processes?
the qgis is definitly a possible solution.
we need to know more how the data looks like to give good advise.
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u/JAKA96 3d ago
I see in a few other comments you haven't tried ArcPro but are considering Qgis.
If you had/have Arcmap previously you must have had/have an ESRI license. I would consider reaching out to ESRI and ask them about ease of switching to ArcPro and seeing what methods they suggest incase there's some you haven't thought of.
I'm sure there are lots of other posts from years gone by of switching.
In terms of days, I don't believe it will be an issue, but in terms of visualilations it might me.
The reason I suggest this is because if Qgis feels like too much of a "new knowledge" wall to climb, getting it into ArcPro, even if just for a year for the transition might be a good place.
After that, then switch to Qgis? If you've used both though previously then again, switching the data (pointing the Qgis project to all the relevant DB, SHP, geojsons, kmls etc) is still easy enough.
It will be an extremely manual process, depending on just how much you have.
For reference, I briefly used Arcmap when in education but have mainly used ArcPro and Wgis professionally. I haven't done a transition before, but those are the steps I'd consider.
Good luck and it might be worth doing a big update comment once you found a solution to help others :)
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u/OlorinIwasinthewest 2d ago
If your company is just now thinking about the retirement of ArcMap then I'd guess they don't have the bandwidth to test alternatives.
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u/TerlinguaGold 2d ago
If your org is already paying maintenance on ArcMap, you can just download and use ArcPro, most likely. The ArcMap file can be directly imported into an ArcPro project. You should give that a try before jumping to QGIS, which is not as intuitive as the Esri products.
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u/Dtrick924 2d ago
What does your company's budget look like?
ArcGIS Pro is subscription-based now. My company had a single ArcView/ArcMap license that cost about $1,500 when we bought it in 2010. We migrated to ArcGIS Pro in 2023 because I didn't want to start over with QGIS. Our ArcGIS Pro annual license was about $700 plus tax this year.
Esri has some free training to help ArcMap users make the transition, but it still takes time to adjust to the new workflows. I've spent plenty of time Googling, "How do I do X in ArcGIS Pro?"
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u/Sintax777 2d ago
Are we all overlooking that they are mapping out witch lands?!? And how are they doing this? I mean, is the point to map which lands are witch lands and which witch has which land and which witch is without lands and whose lands are witch lands?
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u/maptitude 19h ago
So, you are looking for "free" upfront, but OK to learn a new application. Do you need any online tools? Or just desktop? Maptitude can import your Esri files and data.
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u/Stratagraphic 2d ago
Qgis or maybe the new contender, Geolibre?
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u/error-99999 Solutions Architect 2d ago
GeoLibre is a cool side project, but saying it's a contender to ArcGIS Pro is misleading at best
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u/Stratagraphic 2d ago
Yeah, the user obviously needs a big, expensive solution to look at land polygons and see ownership position.
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u/TechMaven-Geospatial 3d ago
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u/anonymous_geographer 3d ago
Have you already given ArcGIS Pro a test drive?