Users Corner

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This page provides services, links, and various interesting information for QGIS users. It is managed by the Community Team (Users and Conference Corner Team Lead) Lars Stöwesand. If you plan to contribute to this page or to the Conference Corner, please contact Lars Stöwesand using the qgis-community-team mailing list.

1 How to get QGIS
- 1.1 Distributions shipping QGIS
- 1.2 QGIS dependencies download sites for older OS
2 How to use QGIS
3 Add additional functionality (Plug-ins)
4 How to contribute
- 4.1 Wish Lists
5 Usage Reports
6 Conference Corner
7 Even more

How to get QGIS

The current release is available from http://download.qgis.org/

getting help with the OSGeo4wSetup Windows installer
QGIS installation guide for Linux systems (in Russian)

Our sample dataset can be downloaded from http://download.osgeo.org/qgis/data/

You can find the Changelogs of the latest versions at:

Distributions shipping QGIS

LiveCD - a knoppix-based 'live-CD' built by Stephan Holl for FOSS4G 2006 in Lausanne which comes with GRASS 6.2 and QGIS 0.8.cvs with GRASS-plugin and ready-to-use spatial data.
fossgis07livecd.iso - live-CD built for GRASS/QGIS workshop at FOSSGIS in Berlin 3/2007 with GRASS 6.3cvs and QGIS 0.8.0.
Mandriva Linux ships stable QGIS in their regular distribution (2009.1: i586,x86_64, SRPM; for simple online installation, just enter "urpmi qgis" as root user; also qgis-grass and qgis-python are provided)
Portable-GIS - a pre-installed set of open source GIS tools (version 2 released on 2009-09-01)

QGIS dependencies download sites for older OS

openSUSE

SuSE 10.0 -> GDAL 1.3.2, GEOS 2.2.3, GRASS 6.2.1, PROJ 4.5.0
Suse 9.1 -> SQLite 2.8.15, SQLite3 3.0.8
Suse 8.2 -> SQLite 2.8.15, SQLite3 3.0.8

Mandriva

Mandriva2006 -> GDAL 1.3.2, SQLITE 3.2.8, GRASS 6.1.0

Fedora

Fedora Core 5 -> GDAL 1.4.1, GEOS 2.2.3, GRASS 6.2.1
Fedora Core 4 -> GDAL 1.3.2, GEOS 2.2.3, GRASS 6.1.0, PROJ 4.4.9

How to use QGIS

HowTos

User guide
Teaching material from Richard Plant
Tutorials in the QGIS-Blog
GrassCookbook - Collection of recipes for typical GIS tasks
French translation of the Write a python Plugin for QGIS workshop held at FOSS4G 2008. Also as available as qgis_plugins_fr.tar.gz
build a standalone application using PyQGIS - (in Spanish)

Hints and tips

Using Projections - Using dynamic projections, examples are given from a GPS usage case.
Using views with the postgis provider for QGIS versions earlier than 0.7
Georeferencing using QGIS (in Russian)
Workaround limitation for adding fields to shapefiles in QGIS (in Russian)
Editing vector data in QGIS (in Russian)

Forums

Add additional functionality (Plug-ins)

Additional plugins for QGIS are available in Python Plugin Repositories.

How to contribute

Did you attend any fair or conference with QGIS users in action? You have information, oppionions, or photos to share? Contact us at qgis-community-team@lists.osgeo.org!

Creating standalone application using Python and QGIS (in Russian)

Wish Lists

To make sure, developers find your improvement ideas, please subscribe to the QGIS bug tracker and add your whishes there as well!

Usage Reports

Conference Corner

The conference corner provides services, links and various interesting information about conferences where QGIS is or could be presented. If you are willing to present QGIS on a conference or if you would like to make other qgis user related contributions to the Users Corner, please write to the qgis-community-team mailing list.