README for QGIS version 0.7 'Seamus'
Quantum GIS (QGIS) is an Open Source Geographic Information System. The project was born in May of 2002 and was established as a project on SourceForge in June of the same year. We've worked hard to make GIS software (which is traditionaly expensive commerical software) a viable prospect for anyone with basic access to a Personal Computer. QGIS currently runs on most Unix platforms, Window, and OS X. QGIS is developed using the Qt toolkit (http://www.trolltech.com) and C++. This means that QGIS feels snappy to use and has a pleasing, easy to use graphical user interface.
QGIS aims to be an easy to use GIS, providing common functions and features. The initial goal was to provide a GIS data viewer. QGIS has reached that point in its evolution and is being used by many for their daily GIS data viewing needs. QGIS supports a number of raster and vector data formats, with new support easily added using the plugin architecture.
QGIS is released under the GNU Public License (GPL). Devloping QGIS under this license means that you can (if you want to) inspect and modify the source code and guarantees that you, our happy user will always have access to a GIS program that is free of cost and can be freely modified.
This release adds:
- Projection support
Supported raster formats include:
Grass
USGS DEM
ArcInfo binary grid
ArcInfo ASCII grid
ERDAS Imagine
SDTS
GeoTiff
Tiff with world file
Supported vector formats include:
ESRI Shapefiles
PostgreSQL/PostGIS
GRASS
NOTE -- Please follow the installation instructions carefully. After untarring the distribution, you can find the HTML version of the installation document in qgis/doc/index.html. The installation document is also available as PDF in the same directory or on the website at http://qgis.org/docs/install.html.
HELP US -- Please submit bug reports using the QGIS bug tracker at:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=55820&atid=478378
When reporting a bug, either login to SourceForge or, if you don't
have a SourceForge id, provide an email address where we can
request additional information.
Please do not use the Bugs forum to report bugs.
SUPPORT - You can get support in the following ways:
- Using the QGIS community site at http://community.qgis.org
- Joining the qgis-users mailing list at: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qgis-user
- Using IRC by joining the #qgis channel on irc.freenode.net. Please wait around for a response to your question as many folks on the channel are doing other things and it may take a while for them to notice your question.