QGIS is a desktop geographic information system (GIS) for working with geospatial data. It brings data viewing, cartography, editing, analysis, database access and publishing together in a single application.
It works directly with a broad range of vector, raster, mesh, database and web-service sources, avoiding the need to convert everything into a proprietary internal format. Projects can combine data from many sources and present it through detailed 2D or 3D map views, layouts and reports.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Reads and writes widely used vector and database formats including GeoPackage, Shapefile, GeoJSON, PostGIS, SpatiaLite, Microsoft SQL Server Spatial and Oracle Spatial.
- Displays raster and imagery formats through GDAL, along with mesh data, vector tiles, spreadsheets and temporal datasets.
- Connects to OGC web services including WMS, WMTS, WCS, WFS and WFS-T.
- Provides extensive digitising and editing tools with snapping, geometry operations, attribute tables, forms and topology checking.
- Includes sophisticated labelling, symbology, annotations, spatial bookmarks, map decorations and data-defined styling.
- Offers print layouts, reports and atlas generation for producing publication-quality cartographic output.
- Includes a georeferencer, GPS tools, OpenStreetMap support and tools for managing spatial databases.
- Provides a comprehensive Processing framework for native algorithms and tools from projects such as GDAL and GRASS GIS.
- Includes a graphical modeller for chaining processing steps into repeatable workflows and supports batch processing.
- Supports terrain, raster, vector, geometry, network and database analysis, with processing tasks able to run in the background.
- Extensible through a large plugin ecosystem and an integrated Python console for scripting and automation.
Website: www.qgis.org
Support:
Developer: QGIS Development Team
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
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