Project Summary
QGIS (formerly also known as Quantum GIS) 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).
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a very large development team
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took an estimated 780 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in July, 2002
ending with its most recent commit about 12 hours ago
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