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 Public License.
Some of the major features include:
- Support for spatially enabled PostGIS tables
- Support for shapefiles, ArcInfo coverages, Mapinfo, and other formats supported by OGR
- Raster support for a large number of formats
- Identify features
- Display attribute tables
- Select features
- GRASS Digitizing
- Feature labeling
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See the User Guide for more information, or take a look at this short flash demo (opens in a new window). You can also get a nice printable overview of QGIS by downloading our brochure.
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Brief History
The Quantum GIS project was officially born in May of 2002 when coding
began.
The idea was conceived in February 2002 when Gary Sherman began looking for
a
GIS viewer for Linux that was fast and supported a wide range of data
stores.
That, coupled with an interest in coding a GIS application led to the
creation
of the project.
Quantum GIS (QGIS) and was established as a project on SourceForge in June
of
the same year. The first code was checked into CVS on SourceForge on
Saturday
July 6, 2002, and the first, mostly non-functioning release came on July
19,
2002. The first release supported only PostGIS layers.
The name Quantum GIS really has no siginificance, other than it starts with
a Q
and QGIS uses the excellent Qt Toolkit from
trolltech.com.
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Supported Platforms
Make sure to read the Release Notes before downloading.
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Click the above icons to download for your platform
Note that Linux and BSD are provided in source only form at this stage.
Questions: gsherman at mrcc dot com
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