Since a few days, the annotation tools are contained in the developer version of QGIS. In this blogpost, I'd like to explain what those tools are and how to use them.

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Dear QGIS users and developers,

Plugins are a great way of extending the functionality of QGIS without changing the QGIS internals. At this years FOSS4G conference in Lausanne, I had a workshop which showed how to create a simple QGIS plugin in 4 steps (in the hope that we will have a lot of new cool qgis plugins soon :-) ).