Comments on: ArcGIS Review: Is ArcMap the Best GIS Software?

By: Gene

Gene — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 17:21:47 +0000

I completely agree with Derek. The fact that ESRI has a near monopoly on commercial GIS software shows its signs in the steadily worsening product. If you try QGIS or any other open source software and compare the loading, drawing, and computing times against those of ArcGIS, you’ll be blown away at the difference. In fact, I use(d) arcGIS on corporate machines with immense computational power while on QGIS I’m performing identical operations on my tiny ultrabook in over a 10th of the time it takes on arcGIS. If that isn’t bizarre, I don’t know what is.

Do yourself a favour, skip arcGIS until they decide to put in some effort into their software.

By: Derek

Derek — Sun, 09 Jul 2017 10:44:43 +0000

I’ve been using Arcgis for years. It’s gone from BAD to WORSE. Probably the slowest, buggiest, most unreliable piece of software out there. What other software locks itself out of it’s own maps? Corrupts it’s own shapefiles? Takes 10’s of minutes to open a single tiny map? etc…

Arcgis is like playing a bad round of golf everyday. Yeah there are a few moments that play out ok, but most of the time you’ll be cursing at the monitor and wondering how this company is still in business.

Do yourself a favor and use Global Mapper. It does 99% of the same things and it works EVERY TIME.