qgis - Man Page

QGIS Geographic Information System

Synopsis

qgis [options] [file]

Description

QGIS is a cross platform, Free and Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS). Supported platforms include Linux/Unix, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. QGIS supports vector, raster, and database formats. QGIS is licensed under the GNU General Public License.

Some of the major features include:

*Support for spatially enabled PostGIS tables
*Support for shapefiles, ArcInfo coverages, Mapinfo, and other formats
 supported by OGR
*Raster support for a large number of formats
*Identify features
*Display attribute tables
*Select features
*GRASS Digitizing
*Feature labeling

Options

For a list of command-line options supported by this build, see: qgis --help

Files

~/.config/QGIS/qgis.conf

QGIS preferences file. This file stores windows size/location, loaded plugins, user options, and other application settings.

Bugs

See the QGIS home page (http://qgis.org) for a list of known issues with the latest release.

Author

Gary Sherman <sherman at mrcc.com>

Info

March 9, 2011