Announcing the release of QGIS 1.0 ‘Kore’

Had to post this for my favorite everyday GIS app. Make sure you visit the visual release changelog.

 

 


Dear QGIS Users, Developers and FOSSGIS devotees,

We are extremely pleased to announce the release of QGIS 1.0 and the shiny new QGIS 1.0 User's Guide. We have also revamped our web site at http://qgis.org. 

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This release is the culmination of literally hundreds of hours of work by a team of developers, translators, documentation writers, and graphics designers.

QGIS began life in February of 2002, with the first release in June of the same year. The initial goal was to create a viewer for PostGIS data that ran on Linux. From those humble beginnings, QGIS has become a true cross-platform application that runs on all major versions of unix, Linux, as well as Mac and Windows. It supports editing and map composition as well as integration with GRASS to provide powerful GIS capability. QGIS has been translated into many languages by a dedicated internationalization team.

At 1.0 we provide a stable API from which you can develop custom solutions in Python or C++. Even though 1.0 is fresh, there are a number of exciting developments underway in both the core application and plugins. Although it took nearly 7 years to get to version 1.0, I think
you'll find that this version is the best yet. Thanks for using QGIS---you, the users, have played a large part in its success.

-- Gary Sherman, Chair, QGIS Project Steering Committee
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For more detailed release information, visit:

http://blog.qgis.org/node/123

For Gnu/Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows downloads, visit:

http://download.qgis.org

Source code and User's Guide are also available from this site.

 

free garmin gps map from osm philippines

Get Garmin GPS Routable map of the Philippines from my wiki.

Latest data update: 30,000 kilometers of roads as of January 14, 2009

openstreetmap for your website

Some prospective foreign tourist is scouting for good resorts around Zambales. While there are a lot of beaches and possible destinations, our traveller found out that most resorts don’t have any decent instructions on how to get there.

So here’s my tip, use openstreemap.

An image map to a webpage
1. Simply browse the map, check if your resort is there. Zoom in to the approximate area of your resort.
2. Select the export tab.
3. In the “Format to Export”, select either “mapnik” or “osmarender image”. Choose an image format.
4. The image map will be downloaded and you can now add them to your “contact” / “where” page.

Slippy map ala googlemap
1. Follow steps 1 and 2 above.
2. In the format to export, select “Embeddable HTML”.
3. You can also add a marker as an option.
4. An HTML code will be provided similar to this:

<iframe width="425" height="350" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://www.openstreetmap.org/export/embed.html?bbox=114.84,2.31,131.18,21.89&layer=mapnik&marker=14.60921,121.14232" style="border: 1px solid black"></iframe><small><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=12.1&lon=123.01&zoom=5&layers=B000FTFTT&mlat=14.60921&mlon=121.14232">View Larger Map</a></small>

5. Paste the HTML code to your “contact” / “where” page.

See it in action here and here (my wordpress account doesn’t allow me to embed it here).

But my resort isn’t mapped yet?
Then start mapping it! Or, talk to us. If you can give us free beer and an overnight stay, we can map them for you ;D.

UPDATE:
From the Openstreetmap Philippines, you can now easily create a map widget by pasting the HTML code just like this one . The place index is for the Philippines only.

Metro Manila contributors in openstreetmap.org

“Stolen” from ianlopez115’s flickr collection:

OSM contributors in Metro Manila

Image rendering from itoworld’s osm mapper. Here is the full-sized image.

user:maning on OSM Philippines – 2008

I have devoted a lot of my free time for more than 2 years creating free geospatial data for the Philippines via openstreetmap.org. My efforts went beyond mapping by trying to build a Phillippine community for OSM. Last year have been a very fruitful year for OSM Philippines.

Two years ago, Metro Manila was like this:

It’s a totally different picture now.

Here’s a look-back of what happened to OSM Philippines for the past year as I have seen its progress.

Expanding the coverage
Simply put, we’ve mapped a lot! Metro Manila is close to being “completed”. Notable cities are Quezon City, Makati, Las Pinas, Manila and Marikina. I was even tempted to declare my mapping area as “complete“

Almost 27,000 kilometers of roads, roughly 13% of all documented roads in the country. But it doesn’t end there, for Metro Manila we’ve added a lot of POIs, buildings, administrative boundaries, detailed coastines, etc.

Available Yahoo! imagery helped a lot but so are gps traces;

and data imports.

Building a community
Last year is mostly about mapping and mapping some more but another event made this all possible. Over 90 mappers joined in our efforts, some of them contribute a little and the fade out for some reasons. A couple have been very active and have focused their efforts on specific areas.

We also started to communicate more through the Philippine dedicated mailing-list and started collaborating with other mapping projects in the country. This collaboration provided expanded coverage in a lot of areas outside Metro Manila.

Thanks to Enthropia we have a dedicated promotional website.

Sounds cool but can we use it?
A couple of Philippine websites are now using the Philippine data among them are:
1. Ortigas Online
2. Red Cross Rizal Chapter
3. waypointsdotph

You can now use the data for your Garmin GPS and we will soon provide a routable version.

Overall, we’ve made an impressive progress.

But as you can see, we have a lot more mapping to do (openstreetmap is never complete btw). But one thing is certain 2009 will be a whole lot better for OSM Philippines (and totally better than other Philippine data).

Want to join in the fun?

Other things:
1. here’s my top pick of well-mapped areas in 2008
2. a cool video of 2008 edits, Metro Manila seems to flash consistently.

UPDATE:
I almost forgot, Mike Collinson also presented state of mapping in the Philippines at OSM’s SOTM Conference. Thanks Mike!