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QGIS 2.0 “Dufour” All the New Cool Stuff more free awesomeness
QGIS 2.0 “Dufour” All the New Cool Stuff
more free awesomeness
QGIS 2.0 “Dufour” All Some of the New Cool Stuff
more free awesomeness
We
Marco Hugentobler, Andreas Neumann, Nathan Woodrow
Sourcepole (CH), City of Uster (CH), Digital Mapping Solutions (AUS)
QGIS (Core) developers
ComposerWho doesn’t love new printing stuff?
Atlas/Mapbook generation
Core feature. No longer a plugin
Export to PDF, JPG, PNG, or the printer
Export to series or single PDF
Sorting and filtering on coverage layer
– Filter based on expression
Auto Snap and Guide Lines
Snap to
– Edge and centers of page
– Edge and centers elements
User defined grid lines
HTML labels and HTML item
Full HTML (and Javascript)
Full style sheet support
Inline Expressions
– Same expressions as labels, rules
– Replaced at print time
Load data from current atlas coverage object
HTML item can load full websites
New expanding group boxs
Old
Really badUX.
Hidden Controls
Don’t move the cheese.
New
Easier to access options
Ctrl + Click expands/collapsesall options.
View only the options you need.
Other noteworthy print composer stuff
Better support for EPSG:4326 scale bars
Multipage in one composer
Multicolumn legends
Automatic overview frame in map frame
HTML frame (multiframe)
Expressions in text and HTML fields
Zebra style grid frame border
More control of grid labels.
– Inside, outside, disabled
Load from template for new composer
Duplicate composer
Symbology and LabelingThe making of great maps
Improved label options and dialog
Transparent buffers
Letter and word spacing
Pixel size visibility
Expanding groupboxes
Force labels
More data defined properties
New vertical style dialog
Style manager
Tagging and Grouping
Smart groups
Create a dynamic group based on tags, symbol names, groups, symbols with a tag
Import/Export to file or database
Import from URL
– Style repository planned
Google Summer of Code project
Symbol selector
Build complex symbols in one dialog
Filter based on smart groups and groups
Search for symbol by name
Data defined symbols
Connect fields to properties such as color, size, border color
Expressions supported
New raster engine and dialog
Faster raster rendering engine
Image resampling
On-the-fly image improvements– Contrast, brightness, saturation, grayscale,
histogram clipping
Export image via Save As..
Blend modes
Supports
– Raster
– Vector
– Labels
– Composer Items
PDF Export with blendmodes only as Raster!
Other noteworthy stuff
New diagram engine and types
SLD style export support
Dynamic Map grid decoration
HTML annotations
Data and processing“nom nom nom” said QGIS to the data
PROCESSING! (former SEXTANTE) Now a core feature
Integrates QGIS, SAGA GIS, GRASS, Python, GDAL/OGR, GeoServer, R TauDEM, LASTools, Orfeo Toolbox
Drag and drop modeler with added Python scripting
Supports new providers built using Python and installed as normal QGIS plugins.
Access to PROCESSING in Pythonimport processingprocessing.runalg(…)
More expressions Operators
Math
String
Db/table related
Spatial
Temporal
Conditions
Data type conversions
Color
Fields and Values
New attribute table New filtering options
– Select using Expression
– Filter and map selection
– Show only edited features
Dual View. Table and form
– Bulk form based updating coming
New UI
Drag 'n Drop Attribute Form Group and rearrange widgets in
tabs and group boxes
Other noteworthy stuff
Oracle support
WCS Client support
QGIS Server: WFS and WFS-T
Lots of QGIS server improvements
Improved Actions with “default actions”
User Interface
Redesigned UI for better experience
Duplicate layer references with style
Project templates
New Plugin Manager
API and Dev
New Python Console
Autocomplete methods for PyQt4, gdal-python, pyqgis
Syntax highlighting
Load/Save file
Access to PROCESSINGimport processingprocessing.runalg(…)
New Vector API
Get and set data using name or index of column
Feature[“Asset_Type”]Feature[“Asset_Type”] = “Foo”Feature[1]Feature[1] = “Foo”
Allows for multi threading in future release
Project Macros
Run Macros on
Project load
Project save
Project close
CommunityGroup hug!
CommunityGroup hug!
Public Interface New PDF and HTML manuals
– HTML http://docs.qgis.org/html/en/docs/user_manual/index.html
Redesign of main qgis.org site
Redesign/Renew of QGIS logo (postponed)
Higher presence on gis.stackexchange.com
Blogs! Blogs! Blogs!
– nathanw.net
– http://anitagraser.com/
– spatialstuff.wordpress.com
– http://planet.qgis.org/planet/
Adoption InaSAFE (INDONESIA SCENARIO ASSESSMENT FOR EMERGENCIES)
– Funded by AusAID and World Bank
State of Vorarlberg, Austria
– 300 desktop installs
Switzerland:– 50 members in QGIS user group
(7 provinces, 10 cities/communities)
Windsor & Maidenhead council UK– 60 QGIS installs
Allianz Insurance company
New Zealand: LINZ, NIWA
QGIS usergroups and meetings:Switzerland, UK, AUS, DE, PT
Plans for QGIS 2.x / things that did not make it
1:n relationship support for layer, forms and reports
Aggregation functions
DXF export/import
Georeferencer for vector data
Circular arc support
3D geometry support
Symbology improvements: anchor support, Masking
Multithreading rendering support
More UI clean up
New Add Layer dialog
Stuff we don’t know people are working on
ReleaseGive it to me now!
Current Release plan
Tomorrow!
Ahh bugz! HELP!Don’t panic!
Bugs can be reported at hub.qgis.org
– Don’t be afraid to file bug tickets
Don’t forget nightly builds for testing
– OSGeo4W (Windows)
– http://qgis.dakotacarto.com/ (OS X)
Thanks!
