Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS) that runs on Mac OS X, Linux, Unix, and Windows. QGIS supports vector, raster, and database formats. QGIS is licensed under the GNU General Public License. QGIS lets you browse and create map data on your computer. It supports many common spatial data formats (e.g. ESRI ShapeFile, geotiff). QGIS supports plugins to do things like display tracks from your GPS. QGIS is Open Source software and its free of cost. We welcome contributions from our user community in the form of code contributions, bug fixes, bug reports, contributed documentation, advocacy and supporting other users on our mailing lists and forums. Financial contributions are also welcome.
What’s new in this version:
Version 0.9.1:
* 70 Bugs closed
* Added locale tab to options dialog so that locale can be overridden
* Cleanups and additions to GRASS tools
* Python Plugin Installer for installing plugins from the PyQGIS repository
* Documentation updates
* Improvements for building under MSVC
