The Center for Biodiversity and Conservation's Biodiversity Informatics Facility is happy to announce the newest release of eVis, The Event Visualization Tool (0.7.0), compatible with QGIS Io (0.10.0). eVis has been developed to easily view geocoded images, referenced through attributes of features, in the QGIS mapping environment. Images can be loaded from a local disk or remotely using the http protocol.

In an update to our previous post, “Using QGIS to support protected area monitoring in Vietnam and Laos,”

In May 2007 the American Museum of Natural History’s Center for Biodiversity and Conservation (http://cbc.amnh.org) traveled to Vietnam and the Lao People’s Democratic Republic to train conservation practitioners in collecting and manipulating geographic data. A workshop was developed to support the monitoring of land cover, species, illegal activities and other information in and around protected areas. We used QGIS as the principle application for viewing and integrating workshop participant’s existing spatial data collections.