[QGIS Commit] r9963 - in trunk/articles/2009/geoinformatics: . images

Mon Jan 12 10:19:21 EST 2009

Author: dassau
Date: 2009-01-12 10:19:21 -0500 (Mon, 12 Jan 2009)
New Revision: 9963

Added:
   trunk/articles/2009/geoinformatics/images/python-plugin-installer.png
   trunk/articles/2009/geoinformatics/images/qgis10.png
Modified:
   trunk/articles/2009/geoinformatics/article.tex
   trunk/articles/2009/geoinformatics/images/Makefile
   trunk/articles/2009/geoinformatics/images/community-map.png
Log:
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Modified: trunk/articles/2009/geoinformatics/article.tex
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--- trunk/articles/2009/geoinformatics/article.tex	2009-01-12 08:24:11 UTC (rev 9962)
+++ trunk/articles/2009/geoinformatics/article.tex	2009-01-12 15:19:21 UTC (rev 9963)
@@ -2,28 +2,27 @@
 \pagenumbering{arabic}
 \setcounter{page}{1}
 
-Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information
-System (GIS), licensed under the GNU General Public License, that runs on
-GNU/Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and MS Windows. QGIS supports numerous vector, 
-raster, and database formats and provides a wide variety of plugins to do 
-things like display tracks from your GPS, edit and analyse vector geometries 
-and attribute data, compose print layouts, and much more.
+Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Geographic Information System (GIS) and
+an official project of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). QGIS is
+licensed under the GNU General Public License.
 
-\subsection{History and Facts}
+\minisec{History}
 
 QGIS began life in February of 2002, with the first release in June of the
 same year. The initial goal was to create a viewer for PostGIS data that ran
-on Linux. From those humble beginnings, QGIS has become a true cross-platform
-application that runs on all major versions of unix, Linux, as well as Mac
-and Windows. It supports editing and map composition as well as integration
-with GRASS to provide powerful GIS capability. 
+on GNU/Linux. From those humble beginnings, QGIS has become a true
+cross-platform application that runs on all major versions of unix,
+GNU/Linux, as well as Mac OS and MS Windows. It supports numerous vector,
+raster, and database formats and provides a wide variety of core and external
+geoprocessing functionalities.
 
-QGIS 1.0, released in January 2009 provides a stable API from which you can
-develop custom solutions in Python or C++. Even though 1.0 is fresh, there
-are a number of exciting developments underway in both the core application
-and plugins.
+\subsection{QGIS is Open Source}
 
-\subsection{QGIS Community}
+The QGIS project is carried out largely by a group of developers,
+translators, documenters, release helpers, bug reporters and promoters. All
+these volunteers together with a large number of users make up the QGIS
+comunity, which in time has built up a comprehensive, valuable and useful
+code and documentation base free to use and improve for everybody.
 
 \begin{figure}[h]
    \begin{center}
@@ -34,8 +33,57 @@
 
 \subsection{Functionality}
 
+Current QGIS 1.0, released in January 2009, provides a stable API from which
+you can develop custom solutions in Python or C++. Even though 1.0 is fresh,
+there are a number of exciting developments underway in both the core
+application and plugins. QGIS offers a growing number of common GIS
+functionalities provided by core features and plugins. This includes to:
 
+\begin{figure}[h]
+   \begin{center}
+   \caption{Quantum GIS 1.0.0 'Kore'}\label{fig:qgis10}\smallskip
+   \includegraphics[clip=true, width=\textwidth]{qgis10}
+\end{center}
+\end{figure}
 
+\begin{itemize}
+\item view and overlay vector and raster layer in different formats and
+projections without conversion to an internal or common format. Supported are
+PostgreSQL/PostGIS, GDAL/OGR supported vector and raster layers such as ESRI
+Shapefile, MapInfo, GML, GeoTiff or Erdas Img., GRASS locations, and
+OGC-compliant WMS and WFS;
+\item interactively explore data, including features such as on the fly
+(OTF) projection, identify/select geometries, view, select and search
+attributes, label features, change vector and raster symbology; 
+\item compose print layouts adding map canvas, legend, scalebar, images and
+text lables in a print composer plugin;
+\item create, edit, manage and export vector layers into several formats.
+Raster layer have to be imported into GRASS GIS to be edited and
+exported. 
+\item perform spatial geoprocessing on PostgreSQL/PostGIS and other OGR
+supported vector layers including overlay, buffer, sampling, geometry and
+database management. The integrated GRASS Plugin allows to include the
+complete GRASS functionality of more than 300 modules.
+\end{itemize}
+
+\subsection{Plugins}
+
+QGIS can be adapted to your special needs with the help of an extensible
+plugin architecture. It provides libraries that can be used to create
+QGIS plugins or even new applications with C++ or Python. Most Python plugins
+are managed in external repositories, and can be easily installed using the
+Python Plugin Installer.
+
+\begin{figure}[h]
+   \begin{center}
+   \caption{QGIS Python Plugin Installer}\label{fig:python-plugin}\smallskip
+   \includegraphics[clip=true, width=\textwidth]{python-plugin-installer}
+\end{center}
+\end{figure}
+
+
+
+
 \subsection{Development}
 
 \subsection{Conclusion}
@@ -54,10 +102,11 @@
 
 For more information, have a look at the following website:
 
-Quantum GIS website: http://qgis.osgeo.org
+Quantum GIS project: http://qgis.osgeo.org
+\\Open Source Geospatial Foundation: http://www.osgeo.org
+ 
 
 
-
  
 
 

Modified: trunk/articles/2009/geoinformatics/images/Makefile
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--- trunk/articles/2009/geoinformatics/images/Makefile	2009-01-12 08:24:11 UTC (rev 9962)
+++ trunk/articles/2009/geoinformatics/images/Makefile	2009-01-12 15:19:21 UTC (rev 9963)
@@ -11,7 +11,9 @@
 #EPS=datenbank_vect.eps
 
 PNG=community-map.eps\
-	    
+    python-plugin-installer.eps\
+    qgis10.eps\
+    
 ##### TARGETS #####
 
 all:  $(PNG)

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