QGIS

Tonight I worked a little on the windows installer. As you may have noticed the previous preview releases of QGIS 0.8 for windows havent had a proper installer which is not very user friendly. Ive created a custome sidebar and added the GPL license ... [More] agreement to the process. I am also thinking to include a small amount of sample data with the installer for those who are just getting started in GIS and need some test data to work with. I just need to figure out how to get a decent quality icon made for windows. I made a fledging effort but its ugly...if anyone wants to contribute a nice looking replacement it would be most welcome. read more [Less]

After a couple of weeks of hacking and with what_nick's msys environment, I have qgis_core, qgis_gui, the ogr provider and qgis.exe building under Windows using mingw and Qt4.2. Here is a screenie of QGIS built under and running under Windows... ... [More] Personally I find the default windows style quite ugly, so I also tried setting QGIS windows to use the Plastique widget style by default. Heres what it looks like: If people generally prefer the Plastique Ill ship it as default for the 0.8 release of QGIS. I like the flat uncluttered look it gives the user interface. read more [Less]

Few days ago I've seen in PyQt4 ChangeLog that there has been added support for Qt4.2 classes recently. I couldn't wait for official release, downloaded the latest snapshot to see if we can move on with Python bindings for QGIS. Sure we can! read more

This video shows how to use the raster calculator that was created for this project to produce a difference map that shows areas of predicted species gain, loss and no-change. This work was sponsored by GBIF – the Global Biodiversity Information Facility at gbif.org

This video shows how to run a mode complex (procedurally) ecological niche model using the openModeller Desktop plugin that we have integrated into QGIS. This work was sponsored by GBIF – the Global Biodiversity Information Facility at gbif.org

This video shows how to run a simple ecological niche model using the openModeller Desktop plugin that we have integrated into QGIS. This work was sponsored by GBIF – the Global Biodiversity Information Facility at gbif.org

This video shows the procedure for installing our special version of QGIS which includes the various tools we created for the Biodiversity Workbench project. This work was sponsored by GBIF – the Global Biodiversity Information Facility at gbif.org