Quantum GIS

Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS) that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows. QGIS supports vector, raster, and database formats. QGIS is licensed under the GNU General Public License. QGIS lets you browse and create map data on your computer. It supports many common spatial data formats (e.g. ESRI ShapeFile, geotiff). QGIS supports plugins to do things like display tracks from your GPS. QGIS is Open Source software and its free of cost (download here). We welcome contributions from our user community in the form of code contributions, bug fixes, bug reports, contributed documentation, advocacy and supporting other users on our mailing lists and forums. Financial contributions are also welcome.

Newsflash

Version 0.10.0 "Io" has been released and packages for major platforms are now available. For information on the release, see the Announcement on the QGIS Blog.

QGIS User Map

GRASS and QGIS Flash Demo

Monday, 03 October 2005
This short demo (will open in a new window) shows how QGIS is used to provide a user friendly frontend to GRASS. Note the features illustrated are in the as yet unreleased HEAD branch of CVS. They will be in the next release of qgis (version 0.8).

A user comments on QGIS for Mac OSX

Thursday, 29 September 2005

LordKingSquirrel (ok thats probably not his real name!) posted a mini review of QGIS on his blog:

"Enter QGIS. First off, it uses the native OSX interface, not X11 - a definate plus in my book. Installation was easy (as it is with most OSX software), and I was up and running in no time. I grabbed some shapefiles from the Sedgwick County website and was able to add them to my project without any pain or frustration."

How To Build Debian Package For QGIS

Wednesday, 28 September 2005

QGIS Debian packaging (how to install easily from CVS)

Download CVS tarball from: http://qgis.sourceforge.net/qgis_cvs.tar.bz2?download (the cvs lags behind)

tar -xjf qgis_cvs.tar.bz2
mv qgis_snapshot_2005-08-11_0545/ (or whatever date) qgis-0.6.99+0.7.0pre2-0.dgis.unstable.1 (or other name, when changed)
cd qgis-0.6.99+0.7.0pre2-0.dgis.unstable.1/

Download set of debian rules (if not included in the tarball):

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/qgis co -P debian
./autogen.sh

(note0: you need automake1.7+libtool)
(note1: autogen needed for CVS, not for release tarball?)

Then either:

su
dpkg-buildpackage

or, as a normal user:

fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage

And finally:

cd ..
dpkg -i qgis_0.6.99+0.7.0pre2-0.dgis.unstable.1-1_i386.deb qgis-plugin-grass_0.6.99+0.7.0pre2-0.dgis.unstable.1-1_i386.deb

Open Source GIS Software Overview -- URISA certified workshop

Tuesday, 27 September 2005
Here is an announcement for an open source GIS workshop that will be presented by the Chesapeake Chapter of the URISA this Wednesday . See the web site for more details and a transcipt of the planned presentation.
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