Quantum GIS Documentation
Version 0.6 Simon
Installation Guide   User Guide

Whats new in Version 0.6

  • GEOS support to improve the method of feature
  • PostGIS editing support in provider
  • Vector dialog redesign to improve usability
  • Improvement in project handling (loading and saving)
  • Scale dependent rendering
  • User option to load layers with out drawing them, thus allowing you to set scale dependency, etc without waiting for the initial draw to complete
  • Interrupt drawing of features by hitting ESC
  • Attribute actions - the ability to run an external program based on the contents of an attribute field in a layer
  • Create new vector layer (shapefile) for editing
  • Windows installer
  • Mac OSX binary
  • New options in the graticule builder plugin
  • Enhancements to the GPS plugin
  • Man page
  • Save delimited text as shapefile
  • Improved Delimited Text plugin, including preview of text file
  • Improved SPIT handling of PostgreSQL reserved words and shapefiles with multiple geometry types
  • Display SQL query used to create a PostGIS layer
  • PostgreSQL query builder
  • Ability to redefine the query used for PostgreSQL layers from the layer properties dialog
  • North arrow, scalebar, and copyright plugins save their state in the project file
  • Datasets with UTF8, Kanjii and CJK filenames now load properly
Installation Guide
How to build and install QGIS. The guide is available in both pdf and HTML format.
User Guide
A brief guide to using QGIS. The User Guide is available in pdf format.
All documents are installed in the qgis share/doc subdirectory.