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Introduction
This page provides services, links, and various interesting information for QGIS users. It is managed by the community assistant (Users and Conference Corner Team Lead) Lars Stöwesand. If you plan to contribute to the this page or to the ConferenceCorner, please contact Lars Stöwesand using the qgis-community-team mailing list.
How to get QGIS
The current release is available from http://download.qgis.org/
Our sample dataset can be downloaded from http://download.osgeo.org/qgis/data/
Additional plugins for QGIS are available in PluginRepositories.
Distributions shipping QGIS
Geomorphix is a 'live cd' distribution with QGIS 0.6 that can also be installed on to your hard drive.
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.
QGIS dependencies download sites for older OS
SuSE
SuSE 10.0 -> GDAL 1.3.2, GEOS 2.2.1, GRASS 6.1.0, PROJ 4.4.9
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
Teaching material from Richard Plant
Tutorials in the QGIS-Blog
GrassCookbook - Collection of recipes for typical GIS tasks
Hints and tips
UsingProjections - Using dynamic projections, examples are given from a GPS usage case.
Using views with the postgis provider for QGIS versions earlier than 0.7
How to contribute
TheGreatFossDemo - How to demonstrate Open Source GIS to an Audience
Wish Lists
Even more
Data manipulation with ogr2ogr