A quick presentation about all the new developments and features in QGIS 2.0

1. QGIS 2.0
All the New Cool Stuff
more free awesomeness

2. Me
Nathan Woodrow
nathanw.net
Technical Consultant/QGIS Specialist at Digital Mapping Solutions
QGIS Core developer

3. Composer
Who doesn’t love new printing stuff?

4. Atlas/Mapbook generation
 Core feature. No longer a plugin
 Export to PDF, JPG, PNG, or the
printer
 Export to series or single PDF
 Sorting and filtering on coverage layer
 Filter based on expression

5. Auto Snap and
Guide Lines
 Snap to
 Edge and centers of page
 Edge and centers elements
 User defined grid lines

6. HTML labels and HTML item
 Full HTML (and Javascript)
 Full style sheet support
 Inline Expressions
 Same expressions as labels, rules
 Replaced at print time
 Load data from current atlas
coverage object
 HTML item can load full websites

7. New expanding group boxs
Old
 Really bad
UX.
 Hidden
Controls
Don’t move
the cheese.
New
 Easier to access options
 Ctrl + Click expands/collapses
all options.
 View only the options you need.

8. Other noteworthy stuff
 Better support for EPSG:4326 scale bars
 Multipage in one composer
 Automatic overview frame in map frame
 HTML frame
 Zebra style grid frame border
 More control of grid labels.
 Inside, outside, disabled
 Load from template for new composer
 Duplicate composer

9. Symbology
The making of great maps

10. Improved label options and dialog
 Transparent buffers
 Letter and word spacing
 Pixel size visibility
 Expanding groupboxes
 Force labels
 More data defined properties
 New vertical style dialog

11. Style manager
 Tagging and Grouping
 Smart groups
Create a dynamic group based on
tags, symbol names, groups,
symbols with a tag
 Import/Export to file
 Import from URL
 Style repository planned
 Google Summer of Code project

12. Symbol selector
 Build complex symbols in one
dialog
 Filter based on smart groups and
groups
 Search for symbol by name

13. Data defined symbols
 Connect fields to properties such
as color, size, border color
 Expressions supported

14. New raster engine and dialog
 Faster raster rendering engine
 Image resampling
 Export image via Save As..

15. Blend modes
 Supports
 Raster
 Vector
 Labels
 Composer Items

16. Other noteworthy stuff
 New diagram engine and types
 SLD style export support
 Dynamic Map grid decoration
 Better OpenStreetMap provider
 No edit support at the moment
 HTML annotations

17. Data and processing
“nom nom nom” said QGIS to the data

18. SEXTANTE!
 Now a core feature
 Intergrates QGIS, SAGA GIS, GRASS,
Python, GDAL/OGR, GeoServer, R
TauDEM, LASTools, Orfeo Toolbox
 Drag and drop modeler with added
Python scripting
 Supports new providers built using
Python and installed as normal
QGIS plugins.
 Access to SEXTANTE in Python
import sextant
sextante.runalg(…)

19. New attribute table
 New filtering options
 Select using Expression
 Filter and map selection
 Show only edited features
 Dual View. Table and form
 Bulk form based updating coming
 New UI

20. Other noteworthy stuff
 Oracle support
 QGIS Server WFS

21. User Interface

22. Redesigned UI for better experience

23. API and Dev

24. New Python Console
 Autocomplete methods for PyQt4,
gdal-python, pyqgis
 Syntax highlighting
 Load/Save file
 Access to SEXTANTE
import sextant
sextante.runalg(…)

25. New Vector API
 Get and set data using name or
index of column
Feature[“Asset_Type”]
Feature[“Asset_Type”] = “Foo”
Feature[1]
Feature[1] = “Foo”
 Allows for multi threading in future
release

26. Community
Group hug!

27. Public Interface
 New PDF and HTML manuals
 HTML http://docs.qgis.org/html/en/docs/user_manual/index.html
 Redesign of main qgis.org site (planned)
 Redesign/Renew of QGIS logo (planned)
 Higher presence on gis.stackexchange.com
 Blogs! Blogs! Blogs!
 Nathanw.net (never mind me just pimping my own stuff)
 underdark.wordpress.com
 spatialstuff.wordpress.com
 http://planet.qgis.org/planet/

28. Adoption
 InaSAFE (INDONESIA SCENARIO ASSESSMENT FOR EMERGENCIES)
 Funded by AusAID and World Bank
 http://inasafe.org/
 State of Vorarlberg, Austria
 400 desktop installs
 Contributed Oracle support, plus $50,000
worth of development work
 Windsor & Maidenhead council UK
 60 QGIS installs
 Simon started UK QGIS user group

29. Release
Give it to me now!

30. Current Release plan
Subject to change
1st April – Feature Freeze
Bug hunting and killing
30th April – UI freeze
Bug hunting and killing
1st June - Call for packaging
7th June – Public Release of 2.0 – YAY!

31. What didn’t make it?
 1:n relationship support for layer and forms
 Multithreading rendering support
 More UI clean up
 New Add Layer dialog
 Stuff I don’t know people are working on 

32. Ahh bugz! HELP!
Don’t panic!
 Now is your chance to help us
 Bugs can be reported at hub.qgis.org
 Don’t be afraid to file bug tickets
 Don’t forget nightly builds for testing
 OSGeo4W (Windows)
 http://qgis.dakotacarto.com/ (OS X)

33. Thanks!