#GeoDev
RustGIS vs QGIS: We Tested Start-Up Speed, Buffers, and Raster Performance
Open-source GIS · October 2026
A new open-source GIS written in Rust runs natively and in the browser, starts in a fraction of a second, and treats every button as a scriptable command. Four rele…
Digitising Historical Maps: Testing AI-Assisted Contour Tracing in QGIS
Case Study | AI-Assisted Tools | QGIS | ArchaeoTrace | Plugin
Can an AI-assisted QGIS plugin actually speed up contour digitising, or does it just move the work around? We tested it on a small sa…