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.

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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.

GRASS Users Meeting Italy Hear About QGIS

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.