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 version 1.7.
Resource portals
Online tutorials and demos
- How do I do that in QGIS? (evolving wiki page, with additional links to video tutorials)
- QGIS GRASS Cookbook
- Excellent QGIS tutorial materials (FOSS4G workshop, 2007)
More on QGIS
- Software development retrospective (Oct 2007)
Plugins
- QGIS Plugin Repositories
- The ftools plugin for spatial analysis
- See Barry Rowlingson's experimental QGIS stats plugin using R and RPy
- The Biodiversity Informatics Facility's Event Visualization Tool