QGIS 1.8 is released

To this point, I find QGIS to be the best open source alternative to ESRI’s ArcMap product.  So I thought I would pass this along.

Today is a big day for GIS users. QGIS 1.8 is out and about. Check out the new features on their website.

A couple features that I like:

• QGIS Browser which should be very familiar to those who’ve used ArcGIS Catalog.
• DBManager which is now no longer a plugin. I’m a big users of it so this should be very nice.
• New plugin repository! I’m always amazed at how many plugins there are available.
• Microsoft SQL Server support.
• Expression based labeling (YES!)
• support for Zip/GZip layers

I’ve already downloaded mine from KyngChaos.

Posted by markgreninger on June 22, 2012.

Tags: Open Source, QGIS

Categories: Open Source Software

One Response

1. I just updated QGIS to 1.8 via the OSGeo4W Installer (http://hub.qgis.org/projects/quantum-gis/wiki/Download) at home and these improvements are great! (Please – everyone – remember to get your IT staff’s approval before installing anything at work!)

   We were told at a recent Open Source GIS Workshop that QGIS receives the most developer attention, evolving faster than most other projects.

   I really appreciate this good news!

   by jhickok on Jun 24, 2012 at 8:10 pm

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