[QGIS Commit] r10013 - in trunk/articles/2009/geoinformatics: .
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Sun Jan 25 04:50:02 EST 2009
Author: dassau
Date: 2009-01-25 04:50:02 -0500 (Sun, 25 Jan 2009)
New Revision: 10013
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trunk/articles/2009/geoinformatics/images/grass-plugin.png
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trunk/articles/2009/geoinformatics/article.tex
trunk/articles/2009/geoinformatics/images/Makefile
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Modified: trunk/articles/2009/geoinformatics/article.tex
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--- trunk/articles/2009/geoinformatics/article.tex 2009-01-25 00:18:49 UTC (rev 10012)
+++ trunk/articles/2009/geoinformatics/article.tex 2009-01-25 09:50:02 UTC (rev 10013)
@@ -2,46 +2,57 @@
\pagenumbering{arabic}
\setcounter{page}{1}
-Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Geographic Information System (GIS) and
-an official project of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). QGIS is
-written in C++ and Python with a QT based GUI. It is licensed inder the GNU
-General Public License (GPL).
+Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Geographic Information System (GIS).
+It is written in C++ and Python with a QT based GUI. It is licensed under the
+GNU General Public License (GPL) and an official project of the Open Source
+Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). The current stable version 1.0 was released in
+January 2009.
\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 GNU/Linux. From those humble beginnings, QGIS has become a true
-cross-platform application that runs on all major versions of unix,
+The QGIS project started 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 GNU/Linux. From those 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.
\subsection{QGIS Open Source Community}
-The QGIS project is Open Source and 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.
+The QGIS project is carried out largely by a group of dedicated developers,
+translators, documenters, release helpers, bug reporters, and promoters. It
+is managed by the Project Steering Committee (PSC), a five member committee
+providing technical guidance, community liason, release management, and
+financial/marketing activities. The work of the QGIS project process is
+spread between numerous people who each have a specific area of
+resposibility.
+All these volunteers together with a large number of users make up the
+world-wide 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}
\caption{QGIS Community Map}\label{fig:community-map}\smallskip
- \includegraphics[clip=true]{community-map}
+ \includegraphics[clip=true, width=10cm]{community-map}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
-There are several possibilities to get in contact with the QGIS project.
-A prefered way is is by joining the qgis-users mailing list or the QGIS Forum.
+With community platforms such as website, wiki, and blog the QGIS project
+provides latest news, release, usage, and development information and also
+allows own contributions after subscription. A prefered first step to contact
+other users for discussions of QGIS in general, as well as specific questions
+regarding its installation and use is by joining the qgis-user mailing list,
+the QGIS Forum or the Internet Relay Chat (IRC).
\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:
+QGIS offers a growing number of common GIS functionalities provided by core
+features and plugins. They are presented in a friendly graphical user
+interface, clearly seperated in menu bar, tool bar, status bar, map view,
+overview, and map legend (see Figure~\ref{fig:qgis10}).
\begin{figure}[h]
\begin{center}
@@ -50,6 +61,9 @@
\end{center}
\end{figure}
+The menu and tool bar give access to all QGIS features and at a glance
+provide following features:
+
\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
@@ -72,15 +86,32 @@
\subsection{Plugin Architecture}
-QGIS can be customized 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.
+QGIS has been designed with a plugin architecture and therefore new
+customized features and functions can easily be added to the application.
+Many of the features in QGIS are actually implemented as core or external
+plugins.
-\subsection{External Python Plugin Repositories}
+\textbf{Core Plugins} are maintained by the QGIS Development Team. They are
+written in C++ or Python, are automatically part of every QGIS distribution
+and can be loaded with the Plugin Manager. There are currently 17 core
+plugins available, such as GRASS GIS integration (See
+Figure~\ref{fig:grass-plugin}), Georeferencer, Mapserver Export, Shapefile to
+PostGIS Import Tool, OGR Layer Converter, GPS Tools, Add Delimited Text Layer
+or WFS support:
-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 Core Plugin (GRASS GIS Integration)}
+ \label{fig:grass-plugin}\smallskip
+ \includegraphics[clip=true, width=14cm]{grass-plugin}
+\end{center}
+\end{figure}
+\textbf{External Plugins} are all written in Python. They are stored in
+an official, external repository and maintained by the individual author. The
+user can easily add those Plugins to QGIS with the Python Plugin Installer
+(See Figure~\ref{fig:python-plugin}).
+
\begin{figure}[h]
\begin{center}
\caption{QGIS Python Plugin Installer}\label{fig:python-plugin}\smallskip
@@ -91,6 +122,10 @@
\subsection{Development}
+QGIS 1.0 provides a stable API from which custom solutions in Python or C++
+can be developed. Even though 1.0 is pretty fresh, there are already a number
+of exciting developments underway in both the core application and plugins.
+
\subsection{Perspective / Conclusion}
\minisec{Authors}
@@ -107,7 +142,11 @@
For more information, have a look at the following website:
-Quantum GIS project: http://qgis.osgeo.org
+Quantum GIS project: http://qgis.org
+\\QGIS Forum: http://forum.qgis.org
+\\QGIS Blog: http://blog.qgis.org
+\\QGIS User Mailing List: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
+\\QGIS IRC: Channel \#qgis port 6667 at irc.freenode.net
\\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 2009-01-25 00:18:49 UTC (rev 10012)
+++ trunk/articles/2009/geoinformatics/images/Makefile 2009-01-25 09:50:02 UTC (rev 10013)
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
PNG=community-map.eps\
python-plugin-installer.eps\
+ grass-plugin.eps\
qgis10.eps\
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