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Thursday, April 17, 2008

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.


Source: http://www.qgis.org/

1 comment:

Joel Odom said...

I did a review of my first impressions of QGIS here:

http://giscoder.blogspot.com/

I like it! Good work on a great product. I plan to continue to keep it in my tools and to keep abreast of its development.

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