{"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>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>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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase\/8475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/knowledgebase"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase\/8475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8476,"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase\/8475\/revisions\/8476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"knowledgebase_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase_cat?post=8475"},{"taxonomy":"knowledgebase_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase_tag?post=8475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}