README for QGIS version 0.3 'Madison'
Quantum GIS (QGIS) is designed to be a Geographic Information System (GIS) 
built for Linux/Unix. QGIS offers support for vector and raster formats. 
Currently QGIS supports many common vector and raster formats shapefiles
and PostgreSQL/PostGIS layers. 

This release adds:
  Features
    Raster pyramids
    Scale display
    Map units can be specified (meters, feet, decimal degrees)
    Desktop icons (installed in share/qgis/images/icons)
    Mac OS X vector support now works
  Core Plugins
    New North Arrow plugin
    Improved GPS tools plugin
    New Copyright plugin
    Improved Grass plugin with raster and vector loaders
  Contributed Plugins (available from community.qgis.org)
    HTTP server (simple map server implementation)


Supported raster formats include:
  Grass
  USGS DEM
  ArcInfo binary grid
  ArcInfo ASCII grid
  ERDAS Imagine
  SDTS
  GeoTiff
  Tiff with world file

Supported vector formats include:
  ESRI Shapefiles
  PostgreSQL/PostGIS
  GRASS
  

NOTE -- Please follow the installation instructions carefully. 
After untarring the distribution, you can find the HTML version of the 
installation document in qgis/doc/index.html. The installation document is 
also available as PDF in the same directory or on the website at
http://qgis.org/docs/install.html.

HELP US --  Please submit bug reports using the QGIS bug tracker at:
            http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=55820&atid=478378
            When reporting a bug, either login to SourceForge or, if you don't
            have a SourceForge id, provide an email address where we can 
            request additional information.
  
            Please do not use the Bugs forum to report bugs.
  
SUPPORT -   You can get support in the following ways:
            1.  Using the QGIS community site at http://community.qgis.org
            2.  Joining the qgis-users mailing list at:
                http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qgis-user
            3.  Using IRC by joining the #qgis channel on irc.freenode.net. 
                Please wait around for a response to your question as many 
                folks on the channel are doing other things and it may take a 
                while for them to notice your question.