QGIS 2.0 All the New Cool Stuff

more free awesomeness

Me

Nathan Woodrownathanw.net

Technical Consultant/QGIS Specialist at Digital Mapping SolutionsQGIS Core developer

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/collapses

all options. View only the options you

need.

Other noteworthy stuff

Better support for EPSG:4326 scale bars Multipage in one composer Automatic overview frame in map frame HTML frame Zebra style grid frame border More control of grid labels.

Inside, outside, disabled Load from template for new composer Duplicate composer

SymbologyThe 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 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 Export image via Save As..

Blend modes

Supports Raster Vector Labels Composer Items

Other noteworthy stuff

New diagram engine and types SLD style export support Dynamic Map grid decoration Better OpenStreetMap provider

No edit support at the moment

HTML annotations

Data and processing“nom nom nom” said QGIS to the data

SEXTANTE! Now a core feature Intergrates 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 SEXTANTE in Pythonimport sextantsextante.runalg(…)

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

Other noteworthy stuff

Oracle support QGIS Server WFS

User Interface

Redesigned UI for better experience

API and Dev

New Python Console

Autocomplete methods for PyQt4, gdal-python, pyqgis

Syntax highlighting Load/Save file Access to SEXTANTE

import sextantsextante.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

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 (planned) Redesign/Renew of QGIS logo (planned) Higher presence on gis.stackexchange.com Blogs! Blogs! Blogs!

Nathanw.net (never mind me just pimping my own stuff) underdark.wordpress.com spatialstuff.wordpress.com http://planet.qgis.org/planet/

Adoption  InaSAFE (INDONESIA SCENARIO ASSESSMENT FOR EMERGENCIES)

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

ReleaseGive it to me now!

Current Release planSubject to change

1st April – Feature Freeze

Bug hunting and killing

30th April – UI freeze

Bug hunting and killing

1st June - Call for packaging

7th June – Public Release of 2.0 – YAY!

What didn’t make it?

1:n relationship support for layer and forms Multithreading rendering support More UI clean up New Add Layer dialog Stuff I don’t know people are working on

Ahh bugz! HELP!Don’t panic!

Now is your chance to help us

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!