QGIS

Last year I worked on integrating some statistics code with a GIS. After looking at as many open-source cross-platform GIS as I could find, I got stuck with OpenEV. It did the job - just. Its big attraction for me was the built-in python scripting ... [More] and API - a python script could create new menu items, Gtk dialogs, access map data, create new layers and so on. read more [Less]

As you may be aware we are working on getting QGIS 0.8.1 bug fix release out the door. I have made a preview build for windows... read more

About 4 months ago my hard drive and various other gubbins in my MacBook died. I spent then next three and a half or so months running the laptop off an external hard drive which has a bootable backup I had fortuitously made two weeks before the ... [More] drive crash. After the MacBook was repaired a few weeks ago, I was handed back a clean slate in terms of the operating system install. read more [Less]

The Quantum GIS project today submitted the request to join the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). The next step is approval by the OSGeo Incubation Committee, which will kick off the incubation process. Polling of the QGIS community has ... [More] indicated broad support for joining OSGeo and we look forward to becoming an active and supportive member of the Foundation. [Less]

I sent an email to the QGIS mailing lists regarding QGIS joining the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). To make sure everybody gets a chance to comment, the email is duplicated below. Feel free to comment. Now that 0.8 is released, its time ... [More] to consider OSGeo membership for QGIS. Some of you may recall we ran a poll a while back about this issue. The results were: Yes 81.4% Maybe 11.5% No 7.2% Its clear that most responders are in favor. Adding the Yes and Maybe read more [Less]

As you may realise, packaging QGIS 0.8 for all the different linux distros is a near impossible task. Additionally we have the issue of older distros not having qt 4.2.x and many IT depts probably won't be keen to start deploying new versions of ... [More] distros to meet QGIS dependencies. When I was promoting the move to qt4 I promised to build a statically compiled version of QGIS or something to provide an option for folks with no Qt4 on their machines. Compiling statically has some issues though - it requires tweaking the build system and it can create very large binaries. read more [Less]

Congratulations to Marco Gualdrini of Italy for being the 1,000th person to register as a QGIS user. We have a sneaking suspicion that 1,000 users represents a fraction of the people out there that are using QGIS. If you haven't registered and added your location to the user map, you can do so at http://qgis.org/qgis_users/index.php.

Binaries for most supported platforms, including Debian Etch, SuSE 10.2, Ubuntu Edgy, OS X, and Windows are available at http://download.qgis.org. The source code is also available, as is a Gentoo ebuild. In the coming days we also hope to have a binary bundle that will run on any Linux platform. read more

The QGIS development team released version 0.8 ('Titan') on December 29th. At present this is primarily a source release for those that want to build QGIS. Packages for most Linux distributions, Windows, and Mac OS X are being assembled and should be ... [More] available in the next few days. In addition to the source, we currently have available packages for Debian Testing (Etch) and SuSE 10.2. All packages and source are available at http://download.qgis.org. A formal release notice will be issued once packages for Windows and OS X are available. read more [Less]

Today the MapServer export tool builds (and works) under Windows. I have uploaded a new QGIS setup for Windows to http://qgis.org/uploadfiles/testbuilds/qgis_setup.exe. With this build, all plugins and parts of QGIS should be functional (though ... [More] untested) under Windows. This includes the new context help system (accessed by the Help button on enabled dialogs). Feel free to download the setup and give it a spin. Note: The MapServer export tool requires Python 2.5. read more [Less]