QGIS is a full-featured, user-friendly, free-and-open-source (FOSS) geographical information system (GIS) that runs on Unix platforms, Windows, and MacOS.

Features
Under the hood
- Versions and release cycle
- Free and Open Source
Installing and using QGIS
- Documentation
- Help and support channels
Get involved with the community

Features

1. Flexible and powerful spatial data management

Supports raster, vector, mesh, and point cloud data in a range of industry-standard formats
- Raster formats include: GeoPackage, GeoTIFF, GRASS, ArcInfo binary and ASCII grids, ERDAS Imagine SDTS, WMS, WCS, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, and other GDAL supported formats.
- Vector formats include: GeoPackage, ESRI shapefiles, GRASS, SpatiaLite, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, MSSQL, Oracle, WFS, Vector Tiles and other OGR supported formats.
- Mesh formats include: NetCDF, GRIB, 2DM, and other MDAL supported formats.
- Point-cloud format: LAS/LAZ and EPT datasets.
Access and display local files, spatial databases (PostGIS, SpatiaLite, SQL Server, Oracle, SAP HANA), web services (WMS, WCS, WFS, ArcGIS REST services), tile services, etc.
Visual and numerical digitizing and editing
On-the-fly reprojection between coordinate reference systems (CRS)
Temporal support

Example: Temporal animation

Example: 3D map view

2. Beautiful cartography

Large variety of rendering options in 2D and 3D
Fine control over symbology, labeling, legends and additional graphical elements for beautifully rendered maps
Near-complete replication (and significant extension) of symbology options that are available in proprietary software by ESRI
Advanced styling using data-defined overrides, blending modes, and draw effects
500+ built-in color ramps (cpt-city, ColorBrewer, etc.)
Create and update maps with specified scale, extent, style, and decorations via saved layouts
Generate multiple maps (and reports) automatically using QGIS Atlas and QGIS Reports
Flexible output direct to printer, or as image (raster), PDF, or SVG for further customization
On-the-fly rendering enhancements using geometry generators (e.g. create and style new geometries from existing features)
Preview modes for inclusive map making (e.g. monochrome, color blindness)

Example: Map of Bogota, Colombia in the style of Starry Starry Night, by Andrés Felipe Lancheros Sánchez

For more maps created with QGIS, visit the QGIS Map Showcase Flickr Group.

3. Advanced and robust geospatial analysis

Powerful processing framework with 200+ native processing algorithms
Access to 1000+ processing algorithms via providers such as GDAL, SAGA, GRASS, OrfeoToolbox, as well as custom models and processing scripts
Geospatial database engine (filters, joins, relations, forms, etc.), as close to datasource- and format-independent as possible
Immediate visualization of geospatial query and geoprocessing results
Graphical modeler and batch processing

Example: Travel isochrones

Example: Graphical model

4. Powerful customization and extensibility

Fully customizable user experience, including user interface and application settings that cater to power-users and beginners alike
Rich expression engine for maximum flexibility in visualization and processing
Broad and varied plugin ecosystem that includes data connectors, digitizing aids, advanced analysis and charting tools, in-the-field data capture, conversion of ESRI style files, etc.
Style manager for creating, storing, and managing styles
QGIS style hub for easy sharing of styles
Python and C++ API for standalone (headless) applications as well as in-application comprehensive scripting (PyQGIS)

Example: Style manager

Example: Plugins

5. QGIS Server

Headless map server -- running on Linux, macOS, Windows, or in a docker container -- that shares the same code base as QGIS.

Industry-standard protocols (WMS, WFS, WFS3/OGC API for Features and WCS) allow plug-n-play with any software stack
Works with any web server (Apache, nginx, etc) or standalone
All beautiful QGIS cartography is supported with best-in-class support for printing
Fully customizable with Python scripting support

Example: QGIS server WMS response

Example: QGIS server WFS response

Under the hood

QGIS is developed using the Qt toolkit and C++, since 2002, and has a pleasing, easy to use graphical user interface with multilingual support. It is maintained by an active developer team and supported by vibrant community of GIS professionals and enthusiasts as well as geospatial data publishers and end-users.

Versions and release cycle

QGIS development and releases follow a time based schedule/roadmap. There are three main branches of QGIS that users can install. These are the Long Term Release (LTR) branch, Latest Release (LR) branch, and the Development (Nightly) branch.

Every month, there is a Point Release that provides bug-fixes to the LTR and LR.

Free and Open Source

QGIS is released under the GNU Public License (GPL) Version 2 or any later version. Developing QGIS under this license means that you can (if you want to) inspect and modify the source code and guarantees that you, our happy user will always have access to a GIS program that is free of cost and can be freely modified.

QGIS is part of the Open-Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo), offering a range of complementary open-source GIS software projects.

Installing and using QGIS

Precompiled binaries for QGIS are available at the QGIS.org download page. Please follow the installation instructions carefully.

The building guide can be used to get started with building QGIS from source.

For installation of QGIS Server, see its getting started documentation.

Documentation

A range of documentation is available. This includes:

Help and support channels

There are several channels where you can find help and support for QGIS:

Using the QGIS community site
Joining the qgis-users mailing list
Chatting with other users real-time. Please wait around for a response to your question as many folks on the channel are doing other things and it may take a while for them to notice your question. The following paths all take you to the same chat room:
- Using an IRC client and joining the #qgis channel on irc.freenode.net.
- Using a Matrix client and joining the #qgis:matrix.org room.
- Using Gitter chat.
At the GIS stackexchange or r/QGIS reddit, which are not maintained by the QGIS team, but where the QGIS and broader GIS community provides lots of advice
Other support channels

Get involved with the community

Bug reporting and bug fixing

You can help us by submitting bug reports or fixing bugs in the QGIS bug tracker.

New features and enhancements

If you wish to contribute patches you can:

The development team can then review your contribution and commit it upstream as appropriate.

If you commit a new feature, add [FEATURE] to your commit message AND give a clear description of the new feature. The label Needs documentation will be added by maintainers and will automatically create an issue on the QGIS-Documentation repo, where you or others should write documentation about it.

For large-scale changes, you can open a QEP (QGIS Enhancement Proposal). QEPs are used in the process of creating and discussing new enhancements or policy for QGIS.

Translations

Please help translate QGIS to your language. At this moment about forty languages are already available in the Desktop user interface and about eighty languages are available in transifex ready to be translated.

The translation process is managed by the Translation Team and all the activities are done under the Transifex platform.

Other ways to contribute

If you are not a developer, there are many other possibilities which do not require programming skills to help QGIS to evolve. Check our project homepage for more information.

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