Short Announcement: my top 5 features of QGIS 2.12
QGIS is under steady development and with the new release QGIS 2.12 we get some interesting and also visible changes in QGIS. What are the best improvements? Check…
Tag: Quantum GIS
Short Announcement: QGIS 2.8 Wien released
QGIS 2.8 (the new “Long Term Release”) was released a few days ago. It is a minor release according to the changelog but it will be supported in…
QGIS 2.6 – Sneak Peak
The release of QGIS 2.6 is planned for October 24, but you don’t have to wait to test new functions in development. In this post I’ll look closer…
ArcGIS server vs. Open Source GIS solutions
originally posted from our friends @mappinggis Which program is better suited to serve geographic data on the web? ArcGIS Server form ESRI or open source ? This question is common in mailing lists…
OpenSource QGIS + PostGIS installation: “the Windows way”
A short time ago I’ve posted an article on the installation of QGIS in combination with a PostGIS database in the background. As we all know, Windows is…
OpenSource QGIS + PostGIS installation: “the Ubuntu way”
A lot of you out there are probably working on Windows Systems using ArcGIS and I have to admit that the possibilities with ArcINFO in the background and…
QGIS Tutorial III: from data to map – visualize data in a map
In our last session we started with some topographic “pre”-map as we prepared everything to create a printable map with QGIS which shows heights in a special area.…
QGIS Tutorial II: from data to map – preparing data visualisation
In this tutorial I would like to show you, how to create a topographic map and analyse topographical data using freely available SRTM data and QGIS including some…
Install stable version of QGIS on Ubuntu
When I was starting with Ubuntu I was struggling with getting QGIS to run on Ubuntu. Actually it is not a big deal despite of adding a repository…