oferece muitas funcionalidades comuns de um SIG fornecidos por recursos básicos e extensões. Como um pequeno resumo são apresentados em seis categorias para obter uma primeira visão.
Você pode ver e sobrepor dados vetoriais e raster em diferentes formatos e projeções sem conversão para um formato interno ou comum. Os formatos suportados incluem:
GRASS raster e dados vetoriais de bancos de dados GRASS (localização / mapset), veja: ref: sec_grass.
You can compose maps and interactively explore spatial data with a friendly GUI. The many helpful tools available in the GUI include e.g.:
You can create, edit, manage and export vector and raster layers in several formats. QGIS offers e.g. the following:
You can perform spatial data analysis on spatial databases and other OGR supported formats. QGIS currently offers vector analysis, sampling, geoprocessing, geometry and database management tools. You can also use the integrated GRASS tools, which include the complete GRASS functionality of more than 400 modules (See Section Integração com SIG GRASS). Or you work with the Processing Plugin, which provides powerful geospatial analysis framework to call native and third party algorithms from QGIS, such as GDAL, SAGA, GRASS, fTools and more (see section Introdução).
QGIS can be used as a WMS, WMTS, WMS-C or WFS and WFS-T client, and as WMS or WFS server (see section Trabalhando com dados OGC). Additionally you can export data publish them on the Internet using a webserver with UMN MapServer or GeoServer installed.
QGIS can be adapted to your special needs with the extensible plugin architecture. QGIS provides libraries that can be used to create plugins. You can even create new applications with C++ or Python!
Gerenciador de Banco de dados (Alteração, edição e visualização de camadas e tabelas; executar consultas SQL)
QGIS offers a growing number of external python plugins that are provided by the community. These plugins reside in the official plugins repository, and can be easily installed using the Python Plugin Installer (See Section Loading an external QGIS Plugin).
For scripting, it is possible to take advantage of an integrated Python console. It can be opened from menu: Plugins ‣ Python Console. The console opens as a non-modal utility window. For interaction with the QGIS environment, there is the qgis.utils.iface variable, which is an instance of QgsInterface. This interface allows access to the map canvas, menus, toolbars and other parts of the QGIS application.
For further information about working with the Python Console and Programming Py|qg| plugins and applications, please refer to http://www.qgis.org/html/en/docs/pyqgis_developer_cookbook/index.html.