Quantum GIS Documentation

This documentation describes the Quantum GIS (QGIS) application. Further information on QGIS is available at http://qgis.org.

	New features

1. Raster pyramids
2. Scale display
3. Map units can be specified (meters, feet, decimal degrees)
4. Desktop icons (installed in share/qgis/images/icons)
5. Mac OS X vector support now works

	Core Plugins

1. New North Arrow plugin
2. Improved GPS tools plugin
3. New Copyright plugin
4. Improved Grass plugin with raster and vector loaders

	New Contributed Plugins

These plugins are available from community.qgis.org or CVS (module plugins)

1. HTTP server

	Known Issues

1. Map units are not stored when a QGIS project is saved

The following documents are available:

• Installation Guide - How to build and install QGIS
• User Guide - A brief guide to using QGIS

All documents are available in PDF format in the qgis share/doc subdirectory. If you have the Adobe PDF plugin for your browser, you can display the PDF version by clicking on the PDF link in the upper right corner of each document.