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README for QGIS
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# About QGIS
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QGIS is an Open Source Geographic Information System. The project was born in
May of 2002 and was established as a project on SourceForge in June of the same
year. We've worked hard to make GIS software (which is traditionally expensive
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have access to a GIS program that is free of cost and can be freely
modified.
Supported raster formats include:
Grass
USGS DEM
ArcInfo binary grid
ArcInfo ASCII grid
ERDAS Imagine
SDTS
GeoTiff
Tiff with world file
## Supported raster formats include:
Supported vector formats include:
ESRI Shapefiles
PostgreSQL/PostGIS
GRASS
Spatialite
Other OGR supported formats
* Grass
* USGS DEM
* ArcInfo binary grid
* ArcInfo ASCII grid
* ERDAS Imagine
* SDTS
* GeoTiff
* Tiff with world file
NOTE -- Please follow the installation instructions carefully.
## Supported vector formats include:
* ESRI Shapefiles
* PostgreSQL/PostGIS
* GRASS
* Spatialite
* Other OGR supported formats
## Note
Please follow the installation instructions carefully.
After extracting the distribution, you can find the HTML version of the
installation document in qgis/doc/index.html. The installation document is
also available as PDF in the same directory.
HELP US -- Please submit bug reports using the QGIS bug tracker at:
http://hub.qgis.org/
When reporting a bug, either login or, if you don't
have a qgis trac, provide an email address where we can
request additional information.
## Help us
Please submit bug reports using the [QGIS bug tracker](http://hub.qgis.org/)
When reporting a bug, either login or, if you don't have a qgis trac, provide
an email address where we can request additional information.
SUPPORT - You can get support in the following ways:
1. Using the QGIS community site at http://qgis.org
2. Joining the qgis-users mailing list at:
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
3. Using IRC by joining the #qgis channel on irc.freenode.net.
Please wait around for a response to your question as many
folks on the channel are doing other things and it may take a
while for them to notice your question.
## Support
You can get support in the following ways:
- Using the QGIS community site at http://qgis.org
- Joining the [qgis-users mailing list](http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user)
- Using IRC by joining the #qgis channel on irc.freenode.net. Please wait
around for a response to your question as many folks on the channel are
doing other things and it may take a while for them to notice your question.
QGIS is on GitHub at http://github.com/qgis/QGIS. If you wish to contribute
patches you can fork the project, make your changes, commit to your