[Qgis-user] Quantarctica 3 Released - A Free GIS for Antarctica

[Anita Graser]

Thank you for sharing, George! And congratulations to the whole
Quantarctica team!

I've shared your announcements on Twitter @qgis.

Keep up the good work.

Regards,
Anita

On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 3:41 PM, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>
wrote:

> Compliments to all the team!
>
>
> Il 6 febbraio 2018 13:43:44 CET, George Roth <George.Roth at npolar.no> ha
> scritto:
>>
>> Website: http://quantarctica.npolar.no/
>>
>> Article: http://www.npolar.no/en/news/2018/02-06-relansering-av-
>> Quantarctica.html
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello QGIS Community,
>>
>>
>>
>> The Norwegian Polar Institute is proud to announce the release of
>> Quantarctica 3, the latest version of its free, cross-platform Antarctic
>> mapping environment that combines QGIS and high-quality Antarctic
>> scientific data.
>>
>>
>>
>> Quantarctica 3 is the result of a two-year dedicated development effort.
>> Thanks to the work of the Quantarctica Project Team, Editorial Board, and
>> feedback from hundreds of Antarctic researchers around the world, this
>> version is Quantarctica's biggest release yet, adding:
>>
>>
>>
>> -Eight new themes with over 50 new datasets in over 100 new layers:
>> Atmospheric Science, Biology, Environmental Management, Geology, Ice Cores,
>> Oceanography, Sea Ice, and Social Science
>>
>> -New additions and updates to the pre-existing Geophysics and Glaciology
>> categories
>>
>> -The Quantarctica Data Catalog (http://quantarctica.npolar.
>> no/data-catalog), where you can view preview images, metadata, and
>> citation information for every dataset
>>
>> -Northward expansion of Quantarctica's project boundary to 40°S,
>> including subantarctic islands
>>
>> -Improved and expanded basemap, terrain, and satellite imagery layers
>>
>> -Updates, resolution improvements, and stability enhancements to datasets
>> from v1 and v2
>>
>> -New features in QGIS and significant enhancements to project stability,
>> speed, and usability
>>
>>
>>
>> The QGIS and OSGeo communities have done a tremendous amount of work over
>> the years that both directly and indirectly benefited Quantarctica - and by
>> extension, hundreds of researchers on Earth's most remote, poorly mapped,
>> and just plain weirdest continent. It's not only the active developments to
>> QGIS that have helped us - every time you submitted a bug report, answered
>> a question on StackExchange, or posted a tweet showing off a new feature,
>> it's let us know that we're not alone, and there's a vibrant community out
>> there that's building an open-source future for the world.
>>
>>
>>
>> We are convinced that Quantarctica could only exist, and be as popular as
>> it is today, because of you.
>>
>>
>>
>> Visit http://quantarctica.npolar.no/ to download the latest version. And
>> please consider sharing the news and your own Quantarctica-made creations
>> on social media- #quantarctica, #qgis/@qgis , and @norskpolar are good
>> things to tag!
>>
>>
>>
>> And as always, if you have any questions, comments, bug reports, or cool
>> maps, send us an email at quantarctica at npolar.no.
>>
>>
>>
>> On behalf of the Quantarctica Project Team and the thousands of
>> Antarcticans around the world,
>>
>>
>>
>> Happy Mapping!
>>
>> George Roth
>>
>> Anders Skoglund
>>
>> Kenichi Matsuoka
>>
>
> --
> Sorry for being short
>
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