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posted by LaminatorX on Thursday February 27 2014, @07:03PM   Printer-friendly
from the All-roads-lead-to-where-now? dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

"Good news, everyone! A brand-new version of QGIS has been released (changelog). QGIS, a full-featured GPL-licensed GIS program has been under active development for twelve years and is now at version 2.2. Funded by a wide range of organizations, the QGIS project lets users create professional-quality maps that compete well with the output of established proprietary GIS packages like ArcView and MapInfo. Notable features of the program include its support for a wide range of file formats, modular design, map server, web publishing, as well as easy python scripting, and an extensive python plugin library.

For those interested, versions are available for GNU/Linux, BSD, Windows, MacOS X, and Android here."

 
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  • (Score: 1) by Kromagv0 on Friday February 28 2014, @09:29AM

    by Kromagv0 (1825) on Friday February 28 2014, @09:29AM (#8470) Homepage

    Having played with various open source GIS tools (GRASS, UDig, and QGIS mostly) for my own projects this is welcomed. I have a couple of friends who work in the field and have used ESRI products as well as open source ones and have been told that it has been entirely possible to get by without the commercial package but is less convenient. Well now I will have to download it and give it a try and see what it makes easier.

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