Do you remember this?

If so, you’ve been using QGIS a long time…

• OGR and PostGIS support
• No raster support
• Three widgets on the Symbology tab
• No symbology in the legend

But you could use it handily on a 640x480 display.

The Script Runner plugin allows you to manage and execute a collection of scripts in QGIS to automate tasks and perform custom processing.

Version 0.6 of Script Runner has been released and includes these changes:

Well not quite destruction, but a bit of hair pulling…

While working on an update to the Plugin Builder, I encountered a small problem. The Plugin Builder displays the version number in the title bar of its main window. After bumping the version number to 1.8.4 in all the requisite places, it still showed 1.8.3 when testing.

Using grep on all the source files revealed no instance of 1.8.3 in any file.

The Quantum GIS (QGIS) project is happy to announce that the Asia Air Survey Co., Ltd (AAS), a Japanese international consulting company, has become a Gold Sponsor. AAS has committed to providing 9,000 EUR (~$11,000 US) each of three years, beginning in November 2012.

The AAS sponsorship is yet another indication that QGIS is a mature and stable project which continues to provide innovative open source GIS software.

The QGIS Project Steering Committee (PSC) wishes to thank AAS for their continuing commitment. These funds will help further the development of QGIS, in part by allowing face to face developer meetings and code sprints (also known as hackfests).

The QGIS project has always relied on volunteers and community involvement. If your organization would like to become a sponsor, please contact the Finances and Marketing Manager: cavallini[at]faunalia.it.

For more information on sponsorship levels, please see the QGIS Sponsorship page.

It was ten years ago, on July 19, 2002, that QGIS was officially unveiled. That first release was primitive, supporting only PostGIS layers and having little in the way of navigation controls. Invoking the open source mantra of “release early and release often,” I announced it on Freshmeat and waited.

Slowly it began to attract attention—not all of it positive. Some questioned why I was starting a new open source GIS project when there were others I could join. Others were interested in signing up to help. In those early days, getting one or two messages a week on the one and only mailing list was exciting. It was a slow start, but as more people joined the project, QGIS began to grow exponentially.

Over the years, we added support for additional vector formats, rasters, on the fly projection, map composition, Python scripting, and more features than I can possibly list.

Today QGIS is used all over the world, in a myriad of disciplines. If you find QGIS useful, please consider supporting the project through direct involvement or a sponsorship.

I founded QGIS; the community built it. Here’s to many more successful years as one of the leading open source GIS projects.

Here’s a summary of recent additions and updates to plugins in the QGIS repository.

• FlowMapper (0.1.1) - Generates flow lines between discreet nodes for depicting spatial interaction data (e.g. migration).
• Query By Example (0.2) - Select features by location.
• Item Browser (1.6.0) - Browse a multiple selection with auto-zooming to feature and an option to open feature form.
• Custom Launcher (1.1.0) - Customize your own actions to launch your preferred apps or commands within QGIS.
• Profile Tool (3.3.1) - Plots terrain profile
• qSearch (1.3.0) - Produces a friendly interface to perform and save searches in a layer.
• Quick Finder (1.0.0) - Dockable dialog to find a feature by its ID in a layer.
• SEXTANTE (1.0.3) - SEXTANTE for QGIS
• Link It (1.1.1) - Link It is a QGIS plugin to link a feature to another. By clicking on map, the plugin will then automatically save the feature’s ID in the appropriate field defined by the user. This plugin requires ItemBrowser.
• QuickMultiAttributeEdit (0.8) - QuickMultiAttributeEdit plugin provides a very quick and handy way to update a feature for the selected attributes into the current/active layer.

This week we look at a newly arrived plugin named qNote. This plugin allows you to create a note and store it in a QGIS project file. When the project is loaded, the note is restored and can be viewed in the qNote panel.

This little plugin provides a way to attach metadata to a project. Things you might want to include in a note are:

• Content of the project
• Purpose
• Area of interest
• Where the data came from
• Who created the project

This information can be helpful when sharing a project or when you forget what you did six months after the fact.

The QGIS project has a number of support channels. Like many open source projects, these are loosely coupled. Recently the forum was made read-only and this has prompted a number of questions and concerns about how to receive support. This post outlines the ways in which you can get your questions answered.