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.

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How to use QGIS as the front end to a photo database

Friday, 29 April 2005
This HowTo describes one approach to using QGIS to access a photograph database, and view the photographs on screen. It assumes the user is familiar with the use of QGIS and PostGIS (and that you have a point location for each image).
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HowTo Write a Howto

Friday, 29 April 2005
The HowTo section of the site allows you to share your knowledge of QGIS with the rest of the community. Your HowTo can range from the simple to advanced. The only requirement is that it shows others ways to use QGIS. No topic is too simple -- please contribute the QGIS knowledge base. Please follow the layout below when composing the HowTo. The boldface text is required for each entry.
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Interview with Frank Warmerdam

Monday, 25 April 2005
This week we have the pleasure of interviewing Frank Warmerdam. Frank is well known in the Open Source GIS Community for his GDAL (Generic Data Access Library)/OGR which provides seamless access to a wide range of vector and raster GIS data formats. GDAL/OGR is used in virtually all of the popular Open Source GIS applications out there - including of course QGIS
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GRASS Users Meeting Italy Hear About QGIS

Wednesday, 20 April 2005

At the recent Italian GRASS Users Meeting, QGIS got some good exposure - first when Radim Blazek (GRASS and QGIS hacker) demononstrated the cool GRASS integration stuff he has been working on for QGIS, and then when RIADE demonstrated their use of QGIS. The RIADE presentation (Italian / English) was a synopsis of a paper (English) on how GRASS and QGIS are being developed to develop analysis tools for desertification processes. It is really great to see QGIS being to such good use! Many thanks to Luca for translating the presentation to english, and to Luigi Pirelli of Advanced Compute Systems, ACS S.p.A, Italy for providing the english verion of the original paper describing their methodology.

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