We are very pleased to announce the release of QGIS 1.5.0 'Tethys'.

Binary and source code packages are available at:

http://download.qgis.org

This release includes many great new features to make your QGIS experience even better than ever before. This release also contains many bug fixes that should improve stability over previous releases. For a detailed run down on what is new in this release, take a look at our visual changelog.

Along with the release of QGIS 1.5.0, the QGIS Community Team is hard at work on an updated QGIS Users' Guide version 1.5. The guide will be available in the near future - we will post announcements when it is available.

QGIS is a completely volunteer driven project, and is the work of a dedicated team of developers, documenters and supporters. We extend our thanks and gratitude for the many, many hours people have contributed to make this release happen.

If you would like to make a donation or sponsor our project, please visit our sponsorship page. QGIS is Free software and you are under no obligation to do so.

Happy QGIS'ing!

I'm very happy to announce that I've been accepted for this year's Google Summer of Code program! The full list of participants within OSGeo can be found here.

My proposal aims to improve speed and responsiveness of Quantum GIS when doing commonly used operations such as map browsing. This should be achieved by adding threading support to the process of rendering and by optimizing related routines. The user interface should feel snappy even when browsing large datasets.

Read on for the proposal details.

Introduction

Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS), licensed under the GNU General Public License, that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows. QGIS is Open Source software and its free of cost. It supports vector, raster, and database formats (including the most common ESRI ShapeFile and geotiff). QGIS supports a wide variety of plugins to do things like display tracks from your GPS, and much more. They can be easily managed through the Plugin Manager.

As an open source project, we provide support for using QGIS via our mailing lists and bug tracker:

• For general enquiries subscribe to our users mailing list at http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
  
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Sponsoring

We are always looking for sponsors to help with funding developer meetings and to drive the project forward. If you are interested in providing financial support to the project please visit QGIS Sponsorship Page.

Download your copy

Binary and source code packages are available at http://download.qgis.org

This release includes around 200 bug fixes, nearly 30 new features and has had a lot of love and attention poured in to it to take our favourite desktop GIS application another step on the road to GIS nirvana! So much has happened in the 3 months since our last release that it is impossible to document everything here. Instead we will just highlight a couple of important new features for you. Read on for the visual changelog...

Dear QGIS Users

Over the weekend I announced that we are putting out a second preview for QGIS 1.0.0. Various binaries are now available including for Windows, Mac OS X, Open Suse Linux (versions 10.2 and 11), Ubuntu Linux (versions 7.10,8.04,8.10) and Fedora (versions 8,9,10). You can download from here:

http://download.qgis.org

In case it isn't clear, please note that our terminology of 'preview' means 'not quite finished / a taster for what the final product is going to be like'. When the final QGIS 1.0.0 comes out the preview suffix will drop away.

Hi Folks

This is a repeat of an email sent to the QGIS community for wider dissemination.

Contents:

1) QGIS 1.0 Preview II Tagged
2) Preview II checkout notes
3) Packagers
4) Plugin Writers
5) Release Team
6) QGIS Users & Developers
7) OSGEO Africa
8) Special note for Ubuntu 8.10 Users

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1) QGIS 1.0 Preview II Tagged

We are inching closer to a QGIS 1.0 release. With the QGIS API revision
done, and heaps more bug fixes from our dedicated team of developers, I

http://spatialgalaxy.net/2008/09/19/qgistomapserver-a-conversion-tool

I'm working up some statistics for my presentation at FOSS4G2007. To that end, I'd like to get a feel for the operating systems used with QGIS. We have a new poll up on qgis.org. If you could take a moment and vote, it would be very helpful. I plan to contrast the results with a similar poll we took a year or so ago.

It's been quite a long time since my last blog post. In the meantime I was quite busy with getting my bachelor thesis ready. It's about creation of a simple navigation system for vehicles. In case you'd be interested you can take a look at the thesis [PDF], but it's quite tough reading as it's written completely in Slovak language :-)

But the more interesting thing is that second part of the work was implementation of a routing/navigation system and I've chosen Quantum GIS and Python to do it. This implementation is now available online, it's called Quantum Navigator (guess why!) and licensed under the terms of GNU GPL.

There are currently two vacancies on the QGIS Project Steering Committee (PSC). These vacancies are for the Community Advisor and Financial/Marketing Advisor seats.

Nominations are now open for these two vacancies. Please see http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/Call_for_Nominations_June_2007 for complete information on the requirements and qualifications, as well as how to nominate someone.

How about presenting at FOSS4G2007 this September? I will be presenting a half-day workshop on QGIS and it would be great to have some follow-on presentations later in the week.