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

How to translate QGIS

Sunday, 05 June 2005

Title: HowTo Translate QGIS
QGIS Version(s): All
Category: Internationalisation

Building QGIS on Mac OS X

Tuesday, 24 May 2005
A brief description of how to build QGIS on Mac OS X is now available on the wiki at: http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/BuildingOnMacOsX. Comments are welcome.

A short demo of QGIS

Friday, 20 May 2005
This short demo (will open in a new window) shows how QGIS is used to work with vector and raster datasets.

Flash demo of the GPS tools

Friday, 20 May 2005
This demo shows some of the things you can do with the GPS tools in QGIS, such as downloading waypoints from a GPS receiver, importing GPS data from file formats other than GPX, creating GPX layers and digitising features, and uploading layers to a GPS receiver. Click here to view the demo.

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