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Manuals

The QGIS project provides a gentle GIS introduction, a User Guide, a Coding and Compilation Guide and a API Documentation in english and in some cases also translated into several foreign languages. For a complete list of (also older) manual versions and translations visit: http://download.osgeo.org/qgis/doc/manual/.

If you are interested in getting involved with the documentation effort, e.g translate the english manual into another language, please visit our wiki DocumentationWritersCorner to find out more!

QGIS User Guide

QGIS 1.3

English, 6.9MB PDF
German, 6.9MB PDF (sponsored by the Canton of Solothurn)

QGIS 1.1

English, 3.9MB PDF
German, 3.9MB PDF (sponsored by the Canton of Solothurn)
Spanish, 4MB PDF (Almost 95% is translated.)

QGIS 1.0.x

English, 3.8MB PDF (This version includes a Coding and Installation Guide)
French, 6.8MB PDF (This version includes a Coding and Installation Guide)
German, 3.1MB PDF (sponsored by the Canton of Solothurn, without Coding and Installation Guide.)
Italian, 3.9MB PDF (Courtesy of Faunalia.it and Giuseppe Patti. Final parts of the Installation Guide are not yet translated.)

QGIS Coding and Compilation Guide

This document is the original Coding and Compilation Guide of the software Quantum GIS. It gives an introduction in writing applications and plugins in C++ and Python and describes the compilation precedure for GNU/Linux, Mac OSX and MS Windows.

QGIS 1.3 (Current version)

English, 0.6MB PDF

QGIS 1.0.x (LTS version)

For QGIS 1.0.x the Coding and Compilation Guide is added to the User Guide as section "Installation"

A Gentle GIS Introduction

GIS is becoming an increasingly important tool in environmental management, retail, military, police, tourism and many other spheres of our daily lives. This document is a gentle introduction in GIS with many examples described in 10 sections based on QGIS. You find more material and information at http://linfiniti.com/dla/.

QGIS 1.0.x (LTS version)

English, 4.7MB PDF (sponsored by Chief Directorate: Spatial Planning & Information, Department of Land Affairs, Eastern Cape, South Africa.)

QGIS API Documentation

Here we provide two documents: The QGIS API Documentation of the stable and the unstable version.

There is a doxygen generated API Documentation available in html format.