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. Features can be any vector type readable by QGIS and eVis can be used to connect to a database to build new point layers based on the results of a SQL query.

Changes and new features in version 0.7.0:
-- Numerous bug fixes. Special thanks to Tim Sutton, John Tull, and Magnus Homann for their feedback and patches.

--(new!) Load supporting documents (e.g., doc, avi, mp3 etc), referenced through attributes of features, with external applications

--(new!) Additional parameters allow the user to adjust or completely override path information stored in attribute

--(new!) Compass offsets (i.e., correction for magnetic declination) can be manually entered or read from an attribute

--(new!) Online documentation

--(new!) Binary version of plugin for Linux, Windows XP/Vista, and Mac OSX (Leopard)

The plugin can be downloaded at the following URL:
http://biodiversityinformatics.amnh.org/open_source/evis/download.php?mid=60
We are interested in hearing how you are using eVis in your projects. If you are willing to participate in a follow up interview, please send us your contact information by filling out the form at the bottom of the download page!