It is our great pleasure to announce the immediate availability of Quantum GIS (QGIS) Version 0.10.0 'Io'. This release includes over 140 bug fixes and stability improvements and introduces several new features including Python support, see below for previews!

Binary and source code packages are available at http://download.qgis.org.

What with the GSoC project and all the other general discussion about analysis tools in QGis, I got somehow sidetracked into pondering how to do contour maps in QGis. There's the hard way: writing a bunch of C++ code to implement a contouring algorithm, then hooking that into QGis and into the GUI for raster drawing properties. Ah, no.

QGIS is participating in the Google Summer of Code under the OSGeo umbrella.

For information on the program, see: http://code.google.com/soc/2008

We are looking for students interested in participating in the program this summer. For QGIS project ideas, see: http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/SummerOfCodeIdeas

Note the student application period runs from March 24th - 31st so time is short. If you are interested please apply. If you have questions regarding potential QGIS projects, feel free to contact me directly [shermange at gmail dot com].

QGIS is now a full fledged OSGeo project. A bit more information can be found on the OSGeo website.

Paolo Cavallini has been named to the QGIS Project Steering Committee and will assume the role of Financial/Marketing Advisor.

Paolo comes from a strong scientific background in zoology (a PhD, and more than 30 publication in international journals, plus conference proceedings and popular papers). Paolo currently heads a small and active group of professionals (biologists and agronomists) under the name Faunalia.

Nominations are now open for the QGIS Project Steering Committee. Nominations are being solicited for the Financial/Marketing Advisor position.

Please read http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/Call_for_Nominations_January_2008
for information on the position and how to nominate someone.

For those of you striving to build some stand alone Python apps based on the QGIS Python bindings here is a quick snip for ya:

class MapCoords(object):
  def __init__(self, mainwindow):
    self.mainwindow = mainwindow
    # This one is to capture the mouse move for coordinate display
    QObject.connect(mainwindow.canvas, SIGNAL("xyCoordinates(QgsPoint&)"),
                    self.updateCoordsDisplay)
    self.latlon = QLabel("0.0 , 0.0")
    self.latlon.setFixedWidth(200)

Hi all.This is a repost since the original article got deleted some
how. A while ago I decided to make some improvements to some of my code
that creates a shapefile. I was using shapelib which
is nice and simple and self contained, but I found it a little awkward
to add attributes to features in a flexible way. Since my application
use the QGIS libs anyway, I thought I may as well give using

Since 0.9.1 there is a nice way to upload your plugin in a repository, so others can install it automagically via the Python Plugin Installer.

A couple of months ago I needed a simple Html Image Map plugin, and wrote it using the Python Plugin Interface. Fixed some bugs in it (one which made that it was not working with postgis layers).

The plugin generates an image- and accompanying html-file for an image map.

So there was a question on the mailing list about the existence of a plugin to capture information about the file path for a bunch of loaded rasters... similar to the info contained in a tileindex with GDAL but interactive from within QGIS.