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LaminatorX
on Thursday February 27 2014, @11:03PM
from the All-roads-lead-to-where-now? dept.
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: 4, Informative) by iNaya on Friday February 28 2014, @12:55AM
The learning curve isn't as steep as it may seem at first glance. A basic knowledge of geometry, and ability to learn should be enough. If you had an actual problem to solve with the GIS system, you'd probably learn a lot faster.
Wikipedia has a list. Not comprehensive, but enough to get started.r ces [wikipedia.org]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_GIS_data_sou
As you would think, many governments have free downloadable data sources.