Introduction to QGIS

H Shiva Kumar
Shivakumar.h@incois.gov.in

Training Program
on
Remote Sensing and GIS Applications using QGIS
Organized by
International Training Center for Operational Oceanography (ITCOO)
INCOIS, Hyderabad, India
December 16 – 20, 2019
 Introduction to QGIS
QGIS (previously known as Quantum GIS) is a free and open Source cross platform
desktop Geographical Information System (GIS) software, allowing users to analyze and edit spatial
information, in addition to composing and exporting graphical maps. QGIS supports both Raster
and Vector layers
Gary Sherman began development of Quantum GIS in early 2002, and it became an incubator project of the
Open Source Geospatial Foundation in 2007. Version 1.0 was released in January 2009. Till now they released
52 versions.
Operating Systems: Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, Windows and Android

Development Platforms: C++ and Python QGIS makes extensive use of the Qt library.

Developer(s): QGIS Development Team (worldwide, Volunteers )

First two developers of QGIS

are Gary Sherman(Founder of
QGIS) and Marco Hugentobler
 Who develops QGIS?

• Foundation of the project 2002 in Alaska

• 2nd developer in Switzerland (Univ. of Zurich)
• Today an international developer team
• > 50 developers (30 regularly active)
• PSC (Project Steering Committee)
• A lot of development in Middle Europe

Follow Code on github:

https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/commits/master

https://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/governance/governance.html#board
 About QGIS

• QGIS is a GIS platform, Very capable and flexible desktop GIS software
• Desktop, Server-GIS and Mobile GIS
• 2D-GIS, with 2.5D Components (3D slowly under dev.)
• Platform independent (Linux, Mac, Windows, Android)
• Based on qt-Framework (C++ and Python)
• Plugin-System: Python and C++
• Integration with other FOSSGIS: GDAL/OGR, GRASS, R, Sextante,
SAGA, OTB
• Support of a lot of GIS formats and databases
• Good integration with (OGC) web services
SAGA: System for Automated Geo-scientific Analysis
GRASS: Geographic Resources Analysis Support System
OTB: Orfeo Tool Box
FOSS: Free and Open Source Software
GDAL: Geospatial Data Abstraction Library
 Modular Framework of QGIS/ OSGeo

QGIS Software

Integration with other

FOSSGIS

Development Platforms

SAGA: System for Automated Geo-scientific Analysis

GRASS: Geographic Resources Analysis Support System
OTB: Orfeo Tool Box
OSSIM: Open Source Software Image Map
FOSS: Free and Open Source Software
GDAL: Geospatial Data Abstraction Library
The FOSSGIS Ecosystem
 QGIS Supported Formats
Raster Formats Databases and Spreadsheets
• (Geo)TIFF •PostgreSQL / Postgis
• JPEG •SQLite / SpatiaLite
• GIF •Microsoft SQL Server
• Erdas Imagine •Oracle
• ECW (if SDK is installed) •Sybase
• MisterSID (if SDK is installed) •ESRI File Geodatabase (if SDK is installed)
• NetCDF (Klimadaten) •ESRI Personal Geodatabase (read only)
• ESRI ArcInfo Grid •Excel, OpenOffice, txt/csv

Vector formats Web Services

•ESRI Shapefile • WMS (Web Map Service – symbolized maps)
•DXF
• Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) – through the WMS-tab
•SpatiaLite
•Mapinfo • Web Feature Server (WFS) (raw vector data)
•GML • Web Coverage Service (WCS) (raw raster data)
•KML • Web Processing Service (WPS - Plugin)
•Interlis (Switzerland) • Catalogue Service for the Web (CSW - Plugin)
• OpenLayers Plugin (Google Maps, Bing Maps)
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