Monthly Archives: April 2007

Desktop GIS – A Car With No Wheels?

April 29, 2007
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Desktop GIS – A Car With No Wheels?

Is desktop GIS software a rusty old car with no wheels? Bouncing around the blogosphere sometimes leaves you with that impression. All the excitement these days seems to center around mashups, hacks, and mapping in your web browser. It’s definitely cool stuff. A number of folks think this is the future of GIS, even...

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Building QGIS on Feisty Fawn

April 27, 2007
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Building QGIS on Feisty Fawn

Here is the process I used to quickly build (OK, but it was faster than usual) QGIS HEAD on Feisty Fawn. What’s QGIS HEAD? It’s the current development version that includes the tasty Python bindings that allow you to write both QGIS plugins and stand-alone mapping applications.

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