Spatial without Compromise on QGIS Web Site

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@ QGIS ArcMap (Info/Advanced) GRASS GIS ArcGIS Pro 1 Display Earth Resources Laboratory Applications Software (ELAS) datasets YES 2 Consume Enhanced Compression Wavelet (ECW) YES* YES YES* 3 Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) YES* YES YES* 5 Display LAS Datasets YES YES YES* 4 Display LAS (Lidar Data Files) YES YES YES* 6 Display LASZ Compressed LAS YES YES YES* 7 Reshape Existing Features YES YES 8 Cut Polygon Features YES YES YES 9 Buffer Features YES YES YES 10 Create New Features YES YES YES 11 Create New Features from the Buffer YES YES YES 12 Create New Polygons YES YES YES 13 Modify Each Selected Row Individually or as a Group (Attributes Dialog) YES, NO YES YES* 14 YES YES YES 15 Split Lines YES YES YES 16 Simplify Features YES YES YES 17 Topology Rules Can Create YES YES YES 18 Report Topology Errors YES YES YES 19 Add Rule to Topology YES YES YES 20 Create Topology YES YES YES 21 Validate Topology YES YES YES 22 Snapping Geometry YES YES YES 23 Create a Database View YES YES YES 24 Add web map service to a data view YES YES YES* 25 Add web feature service to a data view YES YES YES* 26 YES YES YES 27 Read/display/consume file geodatabase YES YES YES 28 Read MS Excel file format YES YES YES 29 Read DBF file format YES YES YES 30 Layout and symbolize a map to display data YES YES YES 31 Create multiple layouts for one “map document” YES NO* YES 32 Insert a second data frame YES YES NO 33 Insert an inset map in the layout YES YES NO 34 Export a map in optional formats YES YES YES 35 Advanced cartography tools (e.g., annotation) YES YES YES 36 Export a data window in optional formats YES YES YES 37 Select records by a query of attributes YES YES YES 38 Select records by location YES YES YES 39 Select records interatively in a table YES YES YES 40 Select records interactively in a map YES YES YES 41 Export a selection of records YES YES YES 42 Bookmark a map extent YES YES YES 43 Change the map scale of a data window YES YES YES 44 Define the projection of a data layer YES YES YES 45 Re-project a dataset YES YES YES 46 Join a table to a data layer YES YES YES 47 Join the table of a polygon data layer to a point data layer based on point location within a polygon YES* YES YES 48 Buffer a feature or selected features YES YES YES 49 Clip one dataset based on another dataset YES YES YES 50 Intersect features YES YES YES 51 Union features YES YES YES 52 Merge features YES YES YES 53 Dissolve features YES YES YES 54 Manage datasets in a catalog YES* YES* YES* 55 Create and edit features YES YES YES 56 Digitize from source map YES YES YES 57 Advanced editing YES YES YES 58 Snap to basemap layers YES YES YES 59 Snap to feature service layers YES YES NO 60 Build a model of processes and output YES YES YES 61 Read raster formats (MrSID, TIFF, GIF, JPEG2000) YES* YES YES* 62 Spatial analysis YES YES YES 63 3D analysis YES YES YES 64 Extract, overlay, proximity, statistics YES YES YES 65 Generalize data YES YES YES 66 Convert vector to raster YES YES YES 67 Raster processing YES YES YES 68 Classify a raster dataset YES* YES YES 69 Create a mosaic dataset YES YES YES 70 Create LAS dataset yes YES NO 71 Metadata editing, import, export YES* YES YES* 72 Generate tile cache tiling scheme yes YES 73 Geocode addresses yes YES 74 Reverse geocode PLUGIN YES 75 Spatial statistics YES YES YES 76 Analyze a (road) network YES YES YES 77 Linear referencing tools PLUGIN YES YES 78 Create and edit metadata templates YES* YES YES* 79 Create and edit valid metadata records YES* YES YES* 80 Validate metadata records YES* YES YES* 81 Can be easily improved by direct developer contracting YES NO YES 82 Can be distributed freely with no per-seat license fees YES NO YES 83 Can be used independently of a license manager YES YES 84 Can integrate tools from GRASS YES NO YES* 85 Can integrate tools from Orfeo Toolbox YES NO YES 86 Can integrate tools from SAGA YES NO YES 87 Has a rich ecosystem of free plugins which can be added to and easily distributed YES YES, many available in ArcGIS Online. YES 88 Runs on MS Windows YES YES YES 89 Runs on macOS YES NO YES 90 Runs on Linux YES NO YES 91 Has an open development process YES NO YES 92 Has a server component for publishing web maps YES YES* YES* 92 Help can be used offline in a disconnected environment YES YES YES 93 94 95 Full PostGIS read/write without extra licensing or plug-ins YES NO YES 96 Add google maps basemap to map YES NO NO 97 Full support for GeoPKG format read/write without extra plug-ins YES NO YES 98 Full Oracle read/write wo extra licensing or plugins YES Maybe 99 SQLite/Spatialite support YES YES* YES* 100 Support for other languages besides English YES YES YES 101 Dynamic hillshade calculation/visualisation of elevation model YES YES YES 102 Can Create and View mbtiles YES NO YES 103 Run on headless servers as data processing service (from commandline, API) YES YES 104 SQL like querying and filtering YES YES YES 105 Can integrate powerful statistics analysis package e.g. R YES YES, with add-in YES 106 Can integrate OSM features in a basemap YES YES with add-in YES 107 Has a license YES YES YES 108 No software maintenance fee YES NO YES 109 Zonal statistics works with overlapping polygons YES NO YES 110 Feature-level display opacity YES YES* NO 111 Do not need to purchase separate license to use some of the features YES NO YES 112 113 Accessibility (not my area but essential to assess) 114 Visualisation YES YES 115 Custom icons supported YES YES YES 116 Takes 2+ minutes to start up YES YES NO 117 YES YES YES 118 SLD export YES YES* 119 Can read DWG files YES YES YES* 120 FLIP/Reverse Lines YES YES YES 121 Can import and view QGS project files YES NO NO 122 Can import and use QGIS QML layer styling files YES NO NO 123 Can import QGIS QLR layer definition files YES NO NO 124 Can import ArcMap MXD documents YES* YES NO 125 Can import ArcMap LYR layer definition files YES* YES No 126 All symbology, labeling and layout properties can be defined on a per-feature basis YES NO* No 127 Spatial analysis tools can have per-feature properties assigned, e.g. per feature dynamic parameter values YES NO NO 128 Can copy and paste Symbologies from a layer to another YES NO 129 Out of the box support for GDAL tools Yes No No 130 Out of the box support for GRASS tools Yes No Yes 131 Out of the box support for SAGA tools Yes No No 132 Out of the box support for OTB tools Yes No No 133 Transparent network logging showing all outgoing requests Yes No No 134 Vector tile support, including ability to import and manipulate MapBox GL styling Yes No* No 135 Project wide dynamic spot colors Yes No No 136 Expression variables, including scope for overridding variables at different project levels Yes No No 137 Can read “protected” ESRI geodatabases after time lock expires Yes No Yes 138 Supports direct drag and drop of layers from ArcGIS Yes* Yes No 139 Supports direct drag and drop of data sources from ArcCatalog Yes* Yes No 140 Supports direct drag and drop of layers from QGIS projects Yes No No 141 Supports direct drag and drop of layers from QGIS browser panel Yes No No 142 Can directly import, edit and write GeoJSON files Yes No Yes 143 Support CMYK color model Coming Soon Yes 144 Mesh Data Abstraction Library (MDAL) Yes No No 145 Out of the box support for hydrological and meteorological data on unstructured meshes Yes

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Amurum forest reserve habitat and avifauna mapping with QGIS in Nigeria

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Amurum forest reserve habitat and avifauna mapping with QGIS in Nigeria ¶

Amurum forest reserve is located near the city of Jos, Plateau state, Nigeria. It was established in conjunction with the initiation of the A.P. Leventis Ornithological Research Institute (APLORI) for the purpose of natural conservation, education and research. APLORI is hosted by the Department of Zoology at the University of Jos. Yearly a group of approximately eight highly motivated students from all over Nigeria obtain training in conservation biology, statistics (with R) and as of 2011 GIS as well. During two weeks in December 2011 we studied basic GIS concepts and applied those with QGIS for various conservation purposes. In this article we describe the way in which we used QGIS to map the habitats and its determinants of Amurum reserve and how the basic habitat maps were used to obtain strata for the purpose of efficiently determining the spatial distribution of the avifauna including the biodiversity.

Annual General Meetings

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Annual General Meetings ¶

Starting in 2016 coinciding with the establishment of a formal legal entity (Swiss “Verein”), we hold a virtual annual general meeting where QGIS Voting Members approve the budget for the coming year, the financial report for the past year, elect any new project members and so on. The minutes of these meetings are provided here as a matter of public record:

Annual Reports

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Annual Reports ¶

Starting in 2016, coincident with the establishment of a formal legal entity (Swiss “Verein”), we are publishing an annual report for the preceding year highlighting key activities within the QGIS project.

Archive ¶

Previous releases of QGIS are available at the following locations:

Books

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Books ¶

This page lists books available from other publishers. QGIS does not manage any of them, and they are listed here only for your convenience.

Brand Guidelines

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QGIS Trademark and brand guidelines ¶

We’re thrilled that you want to refer to either the QGIS project or the QGIS.ORG association and sincerely appreciate your help in spreading the word.

Bug Reporting

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Bugs, Features and Issues ¶

QGIS is a largely volunteer driven project, and is the work of a dedicated team of developers, documenters, translators and supporters. Despite the efforts of the team to release QGIS without bugs, there may remain some bugs. If you find a bug or want new features to be added, please report it!

Case Studies

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Case Studies ¶

Amurum forest reserve habitat and avifauna mapping with QGIS in Nigeria

Creating the Fundy Footpath Trail Map with QGIS

Danish Demining Group using QGIS in Afghanistan

Historical Gazetteer of the Crimea

Lynx habitat analysis in the Southern Carpathians

Producing an arcHYDRO like output with QGIS

QGIS —— an interesting instrument for forestry planning concepts at local and regional level

QGIS and Forest Fire Risk Mapping in Portugal

QGIS and GRASS applied to paleontological survey in Western Portugal

QGIS and GRASS for modelling ecological corridors for wolves in North Portugal

QGIS and GRASS in Biogeographical Research in the Iberian Peninsula

QGIS and GRASS in Local Government Bushfire Hazard Mapping

QGIS as major GIS software in the Laboratory on Experimental and Applied Geography

QGIS at high school —— the urban green spaces in Rada Tilly coastal town, Chubut province, Argentina

QGIS at the Federal Department of Town and Country Planning, Peninsular Malaysia

QGIS for distance learning and teaching GIS at Universities

QGIS for monitoring tigers (using camera traps in Nameri Tiger Reserve, Assam, India Sonitpur District)

QGIS geoprocessing model to simplify first level seismic microzonation analysis

QGIS in the governmental FOSSGIS stack of the Canton of Solothurn in Switzerland

QGIS Maps Historic Herpetofaunal Records (in Missouri, USA)

QGIS to describe the Cesena's Wall

QGIS Trainings at NIRD Jaipur Centre, India

Quantarctica: An Antarctic GIS package

The Burgundy Historical Landscapes Working Group

The Research Institute for Geo-hydrological Protection of Turin —— Aerial photo archive management

The use of QGIS in the Geodata Infrastructure of the City of Uster

Trainings & Research activities using QGIS at NIRD&PR-NERC, Guwahati, India

Ukrainian open initiative of creating tools for spatial planning in the QGIS environment

Use of python console to prepare offline map from WMS (tile downloader)

Use of QGIS at the Financial Times Graphics Team

Use of QGIS at the Ministry of Social Development of Uruguay (MIDES)

Using a free GIS at Jaime Moniz Secondary School: QGIS

Using open source tools for characterization of a landscape. The LecosS plugin

Using QGIS for FTTH/GPON network planning due to the implementation European Digital Agenda

Using QGIS for urban planning in the municipality of Montecchio Maggiore, Vicenza, Italy

Using QGIS for wildlife training in Tanzania

Using QGIS to Map Hotspot Areas for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (HABEaS)

Using the processing toolbox to automate snow classification

Water Observation and Information System: Enabling the Use of Earth Observation Data for Integrated Water Resource Management in Africa

Working with QGIS in a spatial data infrastructure of Jalisco in Mexico

Certification Programme

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Become a QGIS certified training organisation ¶

Is your organisation an active member of the QGIS community and offering high-quality training courses with QGIS? Then consider applying for the QGIS Certification Programme. As a member, you’ll be able to issue the official QGIS certificate to participants of your courses, workshops and training. Each certificate contributes €20 to QGIS.

Changelog for QGIS 2.0

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Changelog for QGIS 2.0 ¶

Release date: 2013-09-09

Changelog for QGIS 2.10

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Changelog for QGIS 2.10 ¶

Release date: 2015-06-26

Changelog for QGIS 2.12

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Changelog for QGIS 2.12 ¶

Changelog for QGIS 2.14

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Changelog for QGIS 2.16

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Changelog for QGIS 2.18

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Changelog for QGIS 2.18 ¶

Changelog for QGIS 2.2

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Changelog for QGIS 2.2 ¶

Release date: 2014-02-22

Changelog for QGIS 2.4

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Changelog for QGIS 2.4 ¶

Release date: 2014-06-27

Changelog for QGIS 2.6

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Changelog for QGIS 2.6 ¶

Release date: 2014-10-31

Changelog for QGIS 2.8

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Changelog for QGIS 2.8 ¶

Release date: 2015-02-20

Changelog for QGIS 3.0

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Code of Conduct

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Code of Conduct ¶

Like the technical community as a whole, the QGIS team and community is made up of a mixture of professionals and volunteers from all over the world, working on every aspect of the mission - including mentorship, teaching, and connecting people.

Diversity is one of our huge strengths, but it can also lead to communication issues and unhappiness. To that end, we have a few ground rules that we ask people to adhere to when they’re participating within this community and project. These rules apply equally to founders, mentors and those seeking help and guidance.

Commercial Support

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Commercial support ¶

Do you plan to use QGIS in your company or organization, but worry about whether there is commercial support available? Are you looking for a developer to add features you need or fix bugs you encounter? Here is an alphabetical list, divided in categories, of support contractors.

Contact and Support

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Contact and Support ¶

Before you start ¶

Before you head off to join up with your chosen support group, we would like to mention a few guidelines for participating in our community:

Contributor Credits

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Contributor Credits ¶

Individuals, institutions and firms who contributed code to QGIS can let people know about their contribution by:

Creating the Fundy Footpath Trail Map with QGIS

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Creating the Fundy Footpath Trail Map with QGIS ¶

Danish Demining Group using QGIS in Afghanistan

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Danish Demining Group using QGIS in Afghanistan ¶

The Danish Demining Group (DDG), the specialised mine action unit of the Danish Refugee Council, has been working in Afghanistan since 1999, undertaking humanitarian mineclearance, unexploded ordnance (UXO) disposal and mine risk education. DDG Afghanistan delivers humanitarian mine action to save life, strengthen the sense of safety through risk education and help remove obstacles to the productive use of resources, helping to realise Afghanistan’s development potential. Since the start of operations in Afghanistan, DDG has removed over 24,000 landmines and over 940,000 pieces of UXO. Currently, DDG is working in the northern provinces of Balkh and Samangan, and the central provinces of Kabul, Parwan and Panjshir.

Diversity statement

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Diversity statement ¶

The QGIS Project welcomes and encourages participation by everyone.

No matter how you identify yourself or how others perceive you: we welcome you. We welcome contributions from everyone as long as they interact constructively with our community.

While much of the work for our project is technical in nature, we value and encourage contributions from those with expertise in other areas, and welcome them into our community.

Donate

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QGIS is developed by a team of dedicated volunteers, companies and organisations.

Donors

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Donors ¶

Donations can be of any amount, via our bank account, Stripe or Paypal (information available at Donations page). Even a small donation can make a difference and help to reach important project goals!

Download

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Environmental Policy

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Environmental Policy ¶

Rationale ¶

Environmental issues, such as the climate crisis, the rapid decrease of biodiversity, and pollution are pressing issues for everyone in the Geoscience community and beyond. Many QGIS users and contributors are geoscientists or geoinformatics specialists. As such, we need to act responsibly and serve as role models. If we act, there is a chance that the members of the general public that are less informed about these issues will also feel the urgency to act and help reduce the impact of human activity on our planet.

FAQ

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FAQ ¶

Here we collect answers to question that come up very often.

Finance

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Finance ¶

Please check the following reports, and see how your donations and sponsorships are important for the progress of the project.

Get involved

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Ways of Contributing ¶

Participate in Support Channels Report Bugs QGIS Documentation Translate QGIS Develop a Plugin Develop QGIS Core Sustain & Donate

Goodies

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Goodies ¶

If you are a fan of QGIS, you might want to visit our store so you can buy some mementos to show off your favourite desktop GIS. We have a number of great t-shirts, mugs, hoodies, caps and more, so do pay a visit to one of our stores below!

Grant Program

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Grant Program ¶

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Historical Gazetteer of the Crimea

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Historical Gazetteer of the Crimea ¶

Every day, Ottomanists around the world generate valuable materials as components of their scholarly research, but these materials may not be readily available to scholars with similar interests. The purpose of the OpenOttoman (Amy Singer, OpenOttoman: A Collaborative Platform for Digital Scholarship, https://networks.hnet.org/node/11419/discussions/166360/openottoman-collaborative-platform-digital-scholarship, 2017) is to stimulate generation of such materials and provide open and convenient access to these materials. The OpenOttoman Portal (http://www.openottoman.org) (OOP) is one vehicle for accessing these materials. Materials made available through the OOP include databases, with a prime example being gazetteers of Ottoman world places. Here, we describe the Historical Gazetteer of the Crimea (HGC), a prototype OOP gazetteer that includes populated places, districts, and provinces of Crimea in existence at the end of the Crimean Khanate.

Infrastructure

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Infrastructure ¶

This page should show you all the infrastructure and services that QGIS uses, and current contacts or owners.

Installation Guide

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QGIS Installers ¶

QGIS is available on Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Android and iOS.

Lynx habitat analysis in the Southern Carpathians

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Lynx habitat analysis in the Southern Carpathians ¶

A case study to promote basic understanding of wildlife habitat modeling for students based on open source data.

Mailing Lists

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Mailing Lists ¶

We communicate on mailing lists divided by topics and target groups. Feel free to subscribe to any of these lists. Please remember to contribute to the list by answering questions and sharing your experiences.

Meetings

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Meetings ¶

Since 2009 the QGIS community has been organizing developer and user meetings around the world.

Members and Donors

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Members and Donors ¶

We thank our sustaining members and donors who support the QGIS project, often regularly, and enable us to pay for our infrastructure and important development work, as well as finance developer meetings and promotion of QGIS in workshops and conferences.

Past sustaining members

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Past sustaining members ¶

Privacy Policy

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Our Privacy Policy ¶

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Producing an arcHYDRO like output with QGIS

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Producing an arcHYDRO like output with QGIS ¶

I work for a urban planning company in China. It is often difficult to design proper environmental protection because the common sources of data may be a state secret or may not even exist. Frequently, we are asked to do designs without proper survey data. In addition there is usually not enough time for a proper study. My background is in Urban Planning with a minor in Environmental Science.

Project organisation

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Who’s Who ¶

QGIS as a Project is currently organised as an association legally based in Switzerland with the following structure:

QGIS —— an interesting instrument for forestry planning concepts at local and regional level

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QGIS —— an interesting instrument for forestry planning concepts at local and regional level ¶

Almost 35% of Switzerland's surface is covered by forests. Changing demands upon the forest and the poor financial situation of forest enterprises in Switzerland led to the development of a new forestry planning concept about fifteen years ago. This concept introduced a clear distinction between planning at the level of the authorities and planning at the level of the owners1. As a new forestry planning office, guaraci works primarily in the region of Basel (Switzerland) on both mentioned planning levels. This case study discusses the use of QGIS at the forest owner level. On this level, a simple, dynamic and compatible geographic information system is required for the establishment of a forest management plan. This plan covers about 1000 ha of forests, will be valid for about 20 years and is implemented by the local forest manager. The area is situated in the region of Basel (see google maps).

QGIS and Forest Fire Risk Mapping in Portugal

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QGIS and Forest Fire Risk Mapping in Portugal ¶

Portugal has been affected by large wildfires causing huge losses, not only environmental, but also economic and social losses. To face this risk, the portuguese government, through the National Forest Authority (AFN), decided, a few years ago, to create technical offices allocated to local governments which, among other skills, must prepare Municipal Plans for Forest Fire Protection and Operational Response.

QGIS and GRASS applied to paleontological survey in Western Portugal

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QGIS and GRASS applied to paleontological survey in Western Portugal ¶

The Associação Leonel Trindade – Sociedade de História Natural (ALT-SHN) is a non profit institution headquarted in Torres Vedras, Portugal, specialized in paleontology. The institution manages a large fossil collection, mainly from Upper Jurassic. One of the key issues in paleontological management is to assess spatial context of the sites from where the fossils are retrieved – hundreds of sites representing thousands of different specimens.

QGIS and GRASS for modelling ecological corridors for wolves in North Portugal

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QGIS and GRASS for modelling ecological corridors for wolves in North Portugal ¶

The Iberian wolf is a sub-species of the gray wolf that exists only in north of Portugal and Spain, with small isolated groups in the south of Douro river. During the last century, it suffered a high regression, being a “vulnerable” species in Spain and “endangered” in Portugal. Nowadays, there are only around 300 wolves in Portugal, due to the high persecution, destruction and fragmentation of the habitat.

QGIS and GRASS in Biogeographical Research in the Iberian Peninsula

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QGIS and GRASS in Biogeographical Research in the Iberian Peninsula ¶

I started applying GIS to my work in biogeography about 10 years ago. Through my graduate internship, PhD work and two other research jobs, I used the proprietary software packages that were available and used at my workplaces — mainly CartaLinx, Idrisi, ArcView and ArcGIS. But I found it rather annoying that we were constantly dealing with license renewal issues, and that I could not use the software away from the workplace unless I acquired my own license.

QGIS and GRASS in Local Government Bushfire Hazard Mapping

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QGIS and GRASS in Local Government Bushfire Hazard Mapping ¶

Introduction ¶

The Southern Downs Regional Council (SDRC) is a small-to-medium sized local government in south east Queensland, Australia. The council region, mainly the southern part, suffers from major bushfires. Bushfire is a real and present concern for the residents and landowners in the Southern Downs Region, and has resulted in the loss of life and property.

QGIS as major GIS software in the Laboratory on Experimental and Applied Geography

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QGIS as major GIS software in the Laboratory on Experimental and Applied Geography ¶

Introduction ¶

Laboratory on Experimental and Applied Geography (LEAG) is part of College of Hotel and Business Management, Ltd. In Brno, Czech Republic (Vysoká škola obchodní a hotelová, s.r.o.) which offers higher education at tourism, business and hotel management. LEAG is focused on modeling socio-economic spatial processes, analyzing spatial patterns, describing and monitoring the reality of localities and regions.

QGIS at high school —— the urban green spaces in Rada Tilly coastal town, Chubut province, Argentina

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QGIS at high school —— the urban green spaces in Rada Tilly coastal town, Chubut province, Argentina ¶

Introduction ¶

In our region, Argentinean Patagonia, we have very few references about the application of GIS in High School for the construction of geographical knowledge as a mean to face territorial and environmental issues. The case of the urban green spaces in Rada Tilly coastal town analyzed by QGIS, tends to demonstrate a methodology of an academic exercise that can project, with important reaches, as formative instances related to the geographical reasoning in students of 12th grade of the Abraham Lincoln School.

QGIS at the Federal Department of Town and Country Planning, Peninsular Malaysia

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QGIS at the Federal Department of Town and Country Planning, Peninsular Malaysia ¶

Introduction ¶

The Federal Department of Town and Country Planning, Peninsular Malaysia (JPBD) is a federal agency that advises matters on town and country planning. The scope of administration for the department however is limited to Peninsular Malaysia as Sabah and Sarawak in East Malaysia have their respective town planning agencies. Town and country planning is on the concurrent list in the Federal Legislation, thus, at the federal level, JPBD advises the Housing and Local Government Minister from which JPBD gets its patronage as well as to advise the National Physical Planning Council chaired by the Prime Minister. At the state level, the state director advises the State Planning Committee chaired by the Chief Minister. At the local level, JPBD advises local planning authorities on planning matters by being involved in the preparation of mandatory development plans. At Headquarters, the National Physical Plan Division prepares the National Physical Plan while four regional project offices assist in the preparation of State Structure Plans, District Local Plans and Special Area Plans. As public agencies were traditionally established base on their specialization, JPBD is the custodian of landuse information.

QGIS Developer Meetings

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QGIS Developer Meetings ¶

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QGIS for distance learning and teaching GIS at Universities

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QGIS for distance learning and teaching GIS at Universities ¶

Introduction ¶

The University of Southern Queensland (USQ) is a regional university located in south-east Queensland, Australia. It has 28,000 students studying both on and off campus. The access of off-campus students to modern technologies such as Internet services varies widely. They also use different types of computers (e.g. Notebook, Desktop etc.) with different operating systems (e.g. Windows, MacOS, and Linux).

QGIS for monitoring tigers (using camera traps in Nameri Tiger Reserve, Assam, India Sonitpur District)

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QGIS for monitoring tigers (using camera traps in Nameri Tiger Reserve, Assam, India Sonitpur District) ¶

Nameri Tiger Reserve (NTR) is one of the 3 tiger reserves of Assam and it is situated in the northern part of Sonitpur District of Assam along the foothills of Eastern Himalayas. Spread over an area of 344 sq km, NTR boasts rich diversity of flora and fauna. The core area of the reserve which constitutes the “Nameri National Park” is bound by River Jia-Bhoreli on the west and River Bor-Dikorai in the east. To the north of the Nameri lies the Pakke Tiger Reserve of Arunachal Pradesh.

QGIS geoprocessing model to simplify first level seismic microzonation analysis

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QGIS geoprocessing model to simplify first level seismic microzonation analysis ¶

The Institute of Environmental Geology and Geoengineering (IGAG) of the National Research Council (CNR) is located in Rome, in the Area of Research "Roma 1". It was founded in 2002 by regrouping five former research Institutes and Centers that had been active for more than 40 years in their field of expertise. IGAG covers a wide range of scientific topics in the field of Earth sciences, mainly focusing towards the study of:

QGIS in the governmental FOSSGIS stack of the Canton of Solothurn in Switzerland

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QGIS in the governmental FOSSGIS stack of the Canton of Solothurn in Switzerland ¶

QGIS License

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GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE ¶

Version 2, June 1991 ¶

Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.

Preamble ¶

The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free software–to make sure the software is free for all its users. This General Public License applies to most of the Free Software Foundation’s software and to any other program whose authors commit to using it. (Some other Free Software Foundation software is covered by the GNU Lesser General Public License instead.) You can apply it to your programs, too.

QGIS Maps

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QGIS Maps ¶

Amazing maps created using QGIS

QGIS Maps

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QGIS Screenshots ¶

Screenshots of QGIS in action

QGIS Maps Historic Herpetofaunal Records (in Missouri, USA)

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QGIS Maps Historic Herpetofaunal Records (in Missouri, USA) ¶

The Missouri Herpetological Atlas Project (MOHAP) was initiated in 1997 as a result of the desire to obtain and easily update detailed distribution maps for Missouri (United States of America) amphibians and reptiles. A database was established to store all valid localities, including records published in historical literature sources and specimens vouchered from museums. From the database, a series of maps can be produced representing both locality records and "county records" for each species.

QGIS overview

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QGIS resources

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Resources ¶

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QGIS to describe the Cesena's Wall

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QGIS to describe the Cesena's Wall ¶

The ECAMPUS UNIVERSITY was created as an online University and recognized by the MIUR (Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research) by the Ministerial Decree of 30 January 2006. It was formed with the aim of providing access to university through its eLearning platform to young people, professionals, entrepreneurs, executives and business and cultural actors in order to contribute to the labor market. The headquarters, also known as Milan International Campus, or Campus of Novedrate, is located in the ex IBM training center of Novedrate (Como, Italy), on a campus in the quiet green Brianza.

QGIS Trainings at NIRD Jaipur Centre, India

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QGIS Trainings at NIRD Jaipur Centre, India ¶

QGIS User Conference 2025

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Welcome to Sweden! ¶

The QGIS User Conference is an annual event that brings together users and developers of the QGIS open-source geographic information system (GIS) software. The conference provides an opportunity for attendees to learn about the latest developments in QGIS, share their experiences with others, and network with other QGIS users and developers. The conference attracts attendees from a broad spectrum of organizations and industries.

QGIS User Conference 2025

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About ¶

The conference includes a variety of presentations, workshops, and discussions on a wide range of QGIS topics. Presentations cover topics such as:

QGIS User Conference 2025

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Attending ¶

Tickets ¶

Tickets will be available in spring 2025.

QGIS User Meetings

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QGIS User Meetings ¶

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QGIS.org Charter

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Charter of the QGIS.ORG Association ¶

1 Legal status of QGIS.ORG ¶

QGIS.ORG is the worldwide association of QGIS users and developers. QGIS.ORG is constituted as a Swiss ‘association’ (Verein im Sinne des Schweizerischen Zivilgesetzbuches (Art. 60-79 ZGB)).

Quantarctica: An Antarctic GIS package

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Quantarctica: An Antarctic GIS package ¶

Quantarctica is a collection of Antarctic geographical datasets, such as base maps, satellite imagery, glaciology and geophysics data from data centres around the world, prepared for viewing in QGIS. The package is developed by the Norwegian Polar Institute, as a tool for the research community, for classrooms and for operational use in Antarctica — freely available for non-commercial purposes.

Reimbursements for Developer Meetings

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Reimbursements for Developer Meetings ¶

The QGIS project holds twice-yearly developer meetings, typically somewhere in Europe. The purpose of the meetings is to provide face-to-face time for developers. It is a forum for presenting new ideas, planning, putting heads together to solve problems and so on.

Reports

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Daily Reports ¶

We generate reports on a daily basis to monitor the status of QGIS Server.

Resources/Hub

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We provide downloads for all popular desktop and mobile operating systems. In just a few clicks you can start using our best-in-class software on your own devices!

We understand that downloading software is just the beginning of your journey. To transition from a novice to an expert in the shortest time possible, you'll need comprehensive documentation and training materials. Use our technical documentation and training resources to get started.

Learn More

Maximise the capabilities of QGIS with the numerous resources developed by our community. A rich ecosystem of plugins allows community members to enhance QGIS functionality. Other resources offer ready-to-use cartography styles, access to online data, and much more!

Explore

No matter which social media platform you prefer, you can likely find us there. We'd love to keep you updated with the amazing innovations and advances happening within the QGIS project.

No matter which medium you prefer, we have community members ready to engage. There are special interest teams for collaboration, a variety of news sources to keep you updated, chat rooms for instant communication, and service providers who are eager to collaborate with you on your QGIS journey.

Connect

Obtain your professional certification as a QGIS practitioner. We have a global network of certified educators who can cater to your training needs.

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The QGIS Project was initiated in 2002. We take pride in our open governance and community-friendly project management model. This approach empowers all community members, giving them a voice and a sense of agency in the decisions and directions of the project.

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Road Map

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Road Map ¶

Current: 3.34.14

Long Term Release (LTR)

Initial Release Our stable releases are created by periodically taking a development version and 'hardening' it by focussing only on bugfixes.
Point Release: 3.34.15 Each month we create a new point release for our stable version. These releases contain no new features, only bug fixes.

Security

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Security information ¶

The QGIS community takes security seriously. We are aware that QGIS is deployed in sensitive environments. This page outlines how the QGIS project responds to vulnerabilities and security matters.

Sustaining membership program

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Sustaining membership program ¶

QGIS is an Open Source project. QGIS development, its documentation, web sites and infrastructure are largely carried out by volunteers. Since the project’s inception in 2002, we have built up a large, valuable and useful code base, free for everybody to use and improve.

Test page

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Ways of Contributing ¶

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Testing

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Tests ¶

Continuous Integration Tests ¶

Both QGIS Desktop and QGIS server are tested rigorously. Each pull request (i.e. code contribution) to QGIS undergoes automated Continuous Integration build tests (github workflows). Our QGIS Server platform is tested using our OGC conformance testing suite.

Thank you for choosing QGIS!

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Thank you for choosing QGIS! ¶

Your freshly baked copy of QGIS is downloading. ¶

The Burgundy Historical Landscapes Working Group

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The Burgundy Historical Landscapes Working Group ¶

An interdisciplinary group of researchers based at the University of North Carolina have been working in the Burgundy region of France for over 30 years. We are trying to understand the changing patterns of human settlement and land use over a period of 2,000 years from the Iron Age, Gallo-Roman, Medieval periods into the present. Our project has included a wide variety of disciplinary researchers, and part of our project includes how to conduct such long-duration interdisciplinary research activities. GIS, GPS and remote sensing have been integral to our work, and our GIS database was first created in 1986, one of the first such archaeological applications. We have done archaeological, historical, geological, ecological, and ethnographic research in the area surrounding the commune of Uxeau, in Southern Burgundy, which is a rich and resilient landscape that has maintained productivity and stability for an extended period.

The Research Institute for Geo-hydrological Protection of Turin —— Aerial photo archive management

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The Research Institute for Geo-hydrological Protection of Turin —— Aerial photo archive management ¶

The Research Institute for Geo-hydrological Protection of Turin (IRPI), member of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), started its activities in 1970. The skills gathered since its foundation concern various following investigation sectors, e.g. the study of geological and hydrogeological features of the Alpine-Po river system (Northern Italy) or the monitoring, prediction and prevention of natural disasters. These tasks are carried out by the employment of a multidisciplinary approach including hearth sciences, engineering and geomatic.

The use of QGIS in the Geodata Infrastructure of the City of Uster

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The use of QGIS in the Geodata Infrastructure of the City of Uster ¶

The City of Uster has been using QGIS since 2007. Encouraged by the decision of the Kanton of Solothurn to use QGIS as a Desktop GIS replacement for ArcView, Uster decided to also give it a try. The city joined the effort for the further development of the QGIS application, by suggesting and testing new features and by financially supporting the development. In return Uster receives a rapidly evolving and platform independent Desktop GIS and WebGIS solution backed by a worldwide user and development community.

Trainings & Research activities using QGIS at NIRD&PR-NERC, Guwahati, India

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Trainings & Research activities using QGIS at NIRD&PR-NERC, Guwahati, India ¶

The National Institute of Rural Development & Panchayati Raj (NIRD&PR) is an Apex institute of Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India. Headquarter is located at Hyderabad city of India and it has three sub centres at Guwahati, Jaipur and Patna city. Guwahati is capital of Assam State (North Eastern side of country). The NIRD Guwahati Centre is actively involved in short (mostly 5 days including one-day handheld GPS survey) residential GIS trainings for State, District and Block level government officials of eight North-East Indian States. Apart from government officials, University faculties, College lecturers, research scholars and Reputed NGOs are also trained. Trainings are fully sponsored by NIRD and participants are to bear only their travel expenses. The author is working in NIRD Guwahati centre as an Adjunct Faculty (GIS) and coordinating GIS and Rural Development related trainings at the centre along with Dr. K. Haloi, Training & Research coordinator, i/c Head, C-GARD, NIRD&PR-NERC.

Ukrainian open initiative of creating tools for spatial planning in the QGIS environment

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Ukrainian open initiative of creating tools for spatial planning in the QGIS environment ¶

Introduction ¶

Formed in 2018, Julie's Data is a Ukrainian consulting agency delivering open-source solutions to broad public use. We focus mainly on strategic environmental assessment with GIS, urban planning, creating and teaching QGIS courses, and running the crowdsourcing project described below.

Use of python console to prepare offline map from WMS (tile downloader)

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Use of python console to prepare offline map from WMS (tile downloader) ¶

This study explains how to prepare offline maps from WMS/WFS or any map loaded in QGIS map view by downloading tiles with the help of a script in python console. The skript also generates a mosaic of all tiles for further use.

Use of QGIS at the Financial Times Graphics Team

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Use of QGIS at the Financial Times Graphics Team ¶

Interview with Steven Bernard (Interactive Design Editor) ¶

Steven is an Interactive Design Editor at Financial Times. You can find him on Twitter. He also publishes useful HOWTO Videos on Youtube for certain cartographic tasks in QGIS.

Use of QGIS at the Ministry of Social Development of Uruguay (MIDES)

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Introduction ¶

The Ministry of Social Development of Uruguay (MIDES, , for its acronym in Spanish) is responsible for the national social policies. MIDES is also accountable for the coordination -at both sectoral and territorial levels- articulation, monitoring, supervision and evaluation of plans, programs and projects, within the areas of its competence, aiming at the consolidation of a progressive redistributive social policy.

User Groups

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User Groups ¶

Current list of QGIS user groups ¶

Registered 2016 or earlier ¶

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QGIS Brasil (Brazil)

Contact: Arthur Nanni

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QGIS Brugergruppe Danmark (Denmark)

QGIS Anwendergruppe Deutschland (Germany)

Contact: Thomas Schüttenberg

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Gruppo degli utenti italiani di QGIS (Italy)

Contact: Matteo Ghetta

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QGIS User Group Japan (OSGeo.JP)

Contact: Kosuke ASAHI

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QGIS Perú Official Users Group

Contact: Anibal Alarcon

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Polska Grupa Użytkowników QGIS (Poland)

Contact: Milena Nowotarska

Contact: Ross McDonald

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QGIS user group Switzerland

Contact: François Voisard

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QGIS UK (Wales/Cymru)

Contact: Kevin Williams

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NIWA QGIS user group (New Zealand)

Contact: Brent Wood –> REMOVED in 2018

Registered 2017 ¶

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QGIS Norge (Norway)

Contact: Antonio Armas Diaz

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QGIS ZA (South Africa)

Contact: Admire Nyakudya

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Groupe des Utilisateurs de QGIS - France (France)

Contact: Harrissou Sant-anna

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QGIS Sverige (Sweden)

Contact: Karl-Magnus Jönsson

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QGIS Kenya

Contact: Benard Mitto

Contact: Hennessy Amor Becerra Ayala

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QGIS Georgia

Contact: Zurab Archvadze –> REMOVED in 2018

Registered 2018 ¶

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Asociația Utilizatorilor QGIS (Romania)

Contact: Tudor Bărăscu

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Association of QGIS users in Spain

Contact: Carlos López Quintanilla

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Grupo de Usuarios QGIS Colombia

Contact: Germán Carrillo

Removed 2018 ¶

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NIWA QGIS user group (New Zealand)

Contact: Brent Wood

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QGIS Georgia

Contact: Zurab Archvadze

Registered 2020 ¶

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QGIS gebruikersgroep (Netherlands)

Contact: Raymond Nijssen

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Asociación QGIS México

Contact: Hennessy Amor Becerra Ayala

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Komunitas Pengguna QGIS Indonesia

Contact: Ismail Sunni

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QGIS Slovensko (Slovakia)

Contact: Jana Michalkova

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Grupo de usuarios QGIS Ecuador

Contact: Adrián Benavides

Registered 2021 ¶

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QGIS Anwendergruppe Österreich (Austria)

Contact: Paul Stampfl

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QGIS Ghana

Contact: Enock Seth Nyamador

Registered 2022 ¶

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QGIS Argentina

Contact: Ariel Anthieni

Goals of a user group ¶

Organization of user meetings

Using a free GIS at Jaime Moniz Secondary School: QGIS

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Using a free GIS at Jaime Moniz Secondary School: QGIS ¶

There will be democratic teaching in our schools or education communities when we generalize the use of Open Source software. This demands not only a change in people's way of thinking (sometimes molded by advertising), but also a sustainable management of expenses and, indirectly, fighting against software piracy. These advantages which are inherent to the philosophy of the Open Source software will be the model to follow if we want a quality education without boundaries or dependencies of any kind. From this perspective, class 35 of the 12th grade belonging to the technological course of territory and environment at Jaime Moniz Secondary School, uses QGIS to develop activities proposed in Geographical Information Systems, Applied Information Systems and during their training period. Within the range of options of free GIS, there were three underlying reasons for the choice of Open Source selection: the user friendly and intuitive approach, supported by online information provided by forums; the several software plug-ins and the quality of the product in its final stage. (One should bear in mind that these academic works were done by students who belong to a very young age group.)

Using open source tools for characterization of a landscape. The LecosS plugin

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Using open source tools for characterization of a landscape. The LecosS plugin ¶

This case study results from the final draft of the Graduate Geographic Information Systems taught by GeoPoint. We proposed to study a landscape using Landscape Ecology plugin (LecoS) in QGIS 2.01 Dufour. The study was conduted in a region of central Portugal, Municipality of Coimbra, with an total area of 31940ha and it has geographic coordinates 40°12'11.84" North, 8°24'37.15" West. Because the new administrative reorganization this municipality are divided into 18 parishes, which are mostly urban areas (Figure 1).

Using QGIS for FTTH/GPON network planning due to the implementation European Digital Agenda

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Using QGIS for FTTH/GPON network planning due to the implementation European Digital Agenda ¶

Definition of the problem ¶

Over the past few years many EU countries have launched operational programs to implement European Digital Agenda (EAC) developed by the European Commission in 2010. According to its guidelines until 2020 every citizen of the European Union should have access to 30 Mbps Internet bandwidth and at least half of them will have access to bandwidth not slower than 100 Mbps.

Using QGIS for urban planning in the municipality of Montecchio Maggiore, Vicenza, Italy

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Using QGIS for urban planning in the municipality of Montecchio Maggiore, Vicenza, Italy ¶

Montecchio Maggiore is a small town in the middle west of Vicenza (about 24.000 population). And as many other italian municipality it manages the town planning; in particular the urban planning and what we call “recovery plan” aka PDR —— Piani Di Recupero. This urbanistic tool is dedicated to the historical area in the center of the town and it requires a specific study: building state of conservation, intended use, particular historical notice via survey and restitution to produce planimetric and prospectus graphics. For this purpose it has used QGIS in addition to Postgresql/Postgis database, PHP code and Libreoffice suite, QCAD (LibreCAD).

Using QGIS for wildlife training in Tanzania

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Using QGIS for wildlife training in Tanzania ¶

Introduction ¶

Working in southern Tanzania, the Udzungwa Elephant Project (UEP) is using QGIS for its training in wildlife research and conservation. In February 2012, it held a two-day workshop for the Ecology and Protection (anti-poaching) staff of the Udzungwa Mountains National Park, along with members of the Udzungwa Ecological Monitoring Centre.

Using QGIS to Map Hotspot Areas for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (HABEaS)

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Using QGIS to Map Hotspot Areas for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (HABEaS) ¶

HABEaS —— Hotspot Areas for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services is an online geographic information system (WebGIS) that was created by the Centre for Applied Ecology (Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Technical University of Lisbon), Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) and Faunalia.

Using the processing toolbox to automate snow classification

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Using the processing toolbox to automate snow classification ¶

Snowy Hydro Limited (SHL) is a peak electricity generator based in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales, Australia. Despite owning a variety of generation assets across the country, Snowy Hydro Limited is best known for the custodianship of an iconic piece of Australian infrastructure, the Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Scheme.

Visual changelogs

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Visual Changelogs ¶

QGIS is a community effort, and we would like to extend a big thank you to the developers, documenters, testers, and the many folks out there who volunteer their time and effort (or fund people to do so) to make these releases possible. From the QGIS community, we hope you enjoy this release! If you wish to donate time, money, or otherwise contribute towards making QGIS more awesome, please wander along to QGIS.ORG and lend a hand!

Visual Style Guide

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Visual Style Guide ¶

Version 1.0 ¶

This is our QGIS Visual Style Guide. This document defines standards for the use of the our visual identity. It proposes a modernization of the QGIS brand to make it stronger, more visible and more adaptable to a broad range of use cases.

The Visual Style Guide is a living document, initiated with the goal of developing a consistent message and image for QGIS. It is a “living” document because we expect it to expand as we cover more use cases where visual consistency is important and can be described using simpler rules. The standards and simple policies described here are designed to maintain the uniformity of presentation necessary for successful promotion and marketing efforts for the QGIS project.

Water Observation and Information System: Enabling the Use of Earth Observation Data for Integrated Water Resource Management in Africa

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Water Observation and Information System: Enabling the Use of Earth Observation Data for Integrated Water Resource Management in Africa ¶

The Water Observation and Information System (WOIS) is an open source software tool for monitoring, assessing and inventorying water resources in a cost-effective manner using Earth Observation (EO) data. The WOIS has been developed under the TIGER-NET project, which is a major component of the TIGER initiative of the European Space Agency (ESA) and whose main goal is to support the African Earth observation capacity for water resource monitoring. TIGER-NET aims to support the satellite-based assessment and monitoring of water resources from watershed to cross-border basin levels through the provision of a free and powerful software package, with associated capacity building, to African authorities.

Working with QGIS in a spatial data infrastructure of Jalisco in Mexico

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Working with QGIS in a spatial data infrastructure of Jalisco in Mexico ¶

The Instituto de Información Territorial del Estado de Jalisco is a government organization which was founded in 1998 to share geographical information between the government agencies of Jalisco in México.