QGIS

Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Open Source GIS that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows.

• Homepage: http://www.qgis.org/
• Download: http://download.qgis.org/downloads.rhtml

See also OpenJUMP

QGIS is written in C and uses libraries from Python, OGR, GDAL and PROJ. Can work with PostGIS and reads and writes DXF as well as Shapefiles and all those formats supported by OGR.

Tipps

• Generating (html) clickable image maps: See QGIS webpage.

Installation

Installer von http://download.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/osgeo4w-setup.exe verwenden.

Wichtig ist, dass man neben den Defaults die folgenden Pakete auswählt:

• Advanced, nicht Express install
• Commandline: Python
• Desktop: QGIS
• Libraries (ev. sind einige schon vorausgewählt):
  • gdal (besonders wichtig)
  • libpq
  • proj (besonders wichtig)
  • pyqt4
  • python-qgis
  • python-win32
  • qt4-libs