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

Quantum GIS Version 0.11.0 has been released. It is available in source form, and as binary executables for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and GNU/Linux. All versions can be obtained from our download page. If the version for your platform is not available please check back in a day or two as some packages are still being built.

QGIS goes grassroots

Two events are happening in the next few months that may interest you if you live in the USA or Europe: Open Source Geospatial '05 (USA) and LinuxTag (Europe). The Open Source Geospatial conference will be held from June 16-18, 2005 in Minneapolis, Minnesota USA. LinuxTag will be held from June 22 to 25, 2005 though we expect a QGIS presence there only on 24 and 25 June.

Several QGIS developers and users plan to be at each conference and we'd love to see more QGISSERS there. In LinuxTag, we are planning a 'hackfest' where we will exchange ideas and implement new features for the 0.8 development version of QGIS. If you are interested to attend either of these events and would like to meet up with fellow QGISSERS please make yourself known on the users mailing list. We'll be easily spotted at the conferences as we'll be sporting spiffy new QGIS tshirts from the QGIS online shop!

Please note that we have decided not to man a stall at LinuxTag this year because we dont have sufficient people to be there all the time. Hopefully next year we'll have some more vounteers and will be able to provide a continuous presence.