QGIS - How does it work?

How does it work?QGIS – The Open Source Model

Nathan Woodrownathanw.net

Technical Consultant/QGIS Specialist at Digital Mapping SolutionsQGIS Core developer

How are we going?Quick QGIS growth overview

Commits

All Time 12 Month 30 DayCommits: 18,486 4,461 546

Files Modified: 19,983 10,749 3,823

Lines Added: 4,592,516 1,695,883 116,838

Lines Removed: 2,455,957 915,023 107,611

Contributors

All Time 12 Month 30 DayContributors: 131 93 38

Contributing

It’s NOT

But also NOT

Main Repo

Core developers Non Core developers

Pull Request

Review &

Merge

Community

Mailing listsgis.stackexchange.comIRCUser groups•OZ QGIS User Group•UK User Group• Swiss User Group

FacebookTwitterGoogle+

All good but who pays for this stuff?

Donations

And lots of Volunteers

Sponsorship

and more

Government GrantsPrivate developers

and heaps more

but who is using it?

Everyone!Ok not everyone. But lots of people.

Australian Local government

http://www.qgis.org/en/community/qgis-case-studies.html

Other case stories

City of Belmont - WATree Canopy

Projects at SDRC

Kerb mappingGPS photo processingPlanning MapsFlood damage maps

http://nathanw.net/2012/04/23/using-qgis-in-local-government/

Australian Local government

http://www.qgis.org/en/community/qgis-case-studies.html

Other case stories

Around the world• InaSAFE• Funded by AusAID and World Bank• http://inasafe.org/

• State of Vorarlberg, Austria• 400 desktop installs• Contributed Oracle support,

plus $50,000 worth of development work

• Windsor & Maidenhead council UK• 60 QGIS installs• Simon started UK QGIS user group

What about support?

Heaps to pick from

http://www.qgis.org/en/commercial-support.html

Or use the community

Mailing listsgis.stackexchange.comIRCUser groups•OZ QGIS User Group•UK User Group• Swiss User Group

FacebookTwitterGoogle+

Some new stuffa very short list

Blend modes

Symbol Manager

Map book generation

Snap and guide lines

Data defined symbols

Thanks