QGIS on the rise with journalists
If you are following QGIS on Twitter you’ve probably noticed the increasing number of tweets by journalists using QGIS.
For example this map in the Financial Times by Hannah Dormido
or this one with overview maps and three different levels of details
or this map with semi-transparent label backgrounds and nice flag images
or even Time Manager animations by raoulranoa in the Los Angeles Times
https://twitter.com/ranoa/status/616668385036902401I think this is a great development and a sign of how wide-spread QGIS usage is today.
If you know of any other examples or if you are a journalist using QGIS yourself, I’d love to see more!
Try this query in Google Trends:
https://www.google.ca/trends/explore#q=arcgis%2C%20qgis&date=today%2012-m&cmpt=q&tz=Etc%2FGMT%2B7
It shows that one year ago, searches in Google on “QGIS” were 28% that of searches on “ArcMap”. Today, searches on QGIS are 50% that of ArcMap.