From NCEAS Knowledge Base

Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly, open source, cross-platform, and freely distributed GIS application. With QGIS, one can easily import multiple raster, vector, and GPS-like coordinate data for the purposes of geospatial data visualization, manipulation, and map production. For users seeking more advanced functionality, QGIS can also serve as a nice graphical interface to GRASS. For more information, read the release announcement of the current version.

Contents 1 Installation guides 2 QGIS resources on the web 2.1 Resource portals 2.2 Online tutorials and demos 2.3 More on QGIS 2.4 Plugins

Installation guides

As of 23-Jan-2009, the latest release is QGIS 1.0.

Current releases for a variety of operating systems can be downloaded here. Note that Ubuntu 8.10/8.04/7.10 users can install an up-to-date version of QGIS using the package manager, after first adding the following line to your software sources list (replacing intrepid with hardy or gutsy as appropriate):

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/qgis/ubuntu intrepid main

QGIS resources on the web

Resource portals

• Official QGIS website
• Official QGIS help forum
• QGIS Wiki

Online tutorials and demos

• Excellent QGIS tutorial materials (FOSS4G workshop, 2007)
• Shorter, basic tutorial
• QGIS GRASS plugin demo (~5 min): Creating a GRASS mapset
• QGIS GRASS plugin demo (~10 min): Importing data into GRASS

More on QGIS

• Software development update (Oct 2007)

Plugins

• QGIS Plugin Repositories
• See Barry Rowlingson's experimental QGIS stats plugin using R and RPy
• The Biodiversity Informatics Facility's Event Visualization Tool