{"id":8475,"date":"2025-11-25T10:17:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T09:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/kb\/uncategorized\/what-is-the-difference-between-usemaps-and-qgis\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T15:20:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T13:20:18","slug":"what-is-the-difference-between-usemaps-and-qgis","status":"publish","type":"knowledgebase","link":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/usemaps-documentation\/before-you-start\/what-is-the-difference-between-usemaps-and-qgis\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the difference between Usemaps and QGIS?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Simply put:<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>QGIS is like a desktop Excel (very powerful and capable of doing almost everything, but it works locally on a single computer)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Usemaps is like Office365 (also very powerful and able to do many things, but designed for multi-user collaboration and used through a web browser)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Usemaps is a System you need when:<\/p>\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>you need a tool for easy collaboration with many people,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>when you see that Your colleagues do not want to work in QGIS,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>when you simply want to add an attachment to an object (in QGIS this is not so straightforward)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simply put: Usemaps is a System you need when:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","knowledgebase_cat":[51],"knowledgebase_tag":[],"class_list":["post-8475","knowledgebase","type-knowledgebase","status-publish","hentry","knowledgebase_cat-before-you-start"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What is the difference between Usemaps and QGIS? 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