This document is the original User Guide of the software Quantum GIS. It gives an introduction in the usage of Quantum GIS. This document is released under the GNU Free Documentation License.

We set up a new documentation repository based on RST and Sphinx for QGIS 1.8. The conversion from Latex/SVN to RST/Sphinx/GIT took some more time, but you can always find the current html status at http://docs.qgis.org. The default documentation is in English. Other languages are not yet translated but can later be added and reached like this (French, German, Italian, ... ).

QGIS 1.8

• English, PDF(11M) / HTML (sponsored by the Canton of Solothurn, Switzerland) (order as book in black/white
• German, PDF(11M) / HTML (sponsored by the Canton of Solothurn, Switzerland) (order as book in black/white
• Russian, PDF(11M) / HTML

QGIS 1.7

• English, 3.7M PDF (order as book in black/white or color and support the QGIS project)
• German, 10.5M PDF (sponsored by the Canton of Solothurn, Switzerland) (order as book in black/white or color and support the QGIS project)
• Italian, 12MB PDF (by the GFOSS.it community, with the support of Faunalia.it)
• Russian, 9.0M PDF (done by gis-lab, any bugs or typos report here)
• French, 4.1M PDF
• Portuguese (Brazilian) (done by the Brazilian community)
• Korean (done by Korean translators)

We started to set up a new documentation repository based on RST and Sphinx for QGIS 1.8. The conversion from Latex/SVN to RST/Sphinx/GIT will take some more time, but you can already find the current status at http://docs.qgis.org. The default documentation is in English, other languages are not yet translated but an later be added and reached like this (French, German, Italian, ... ).

QGIS 1.6

• English, 9.8M PDF
• French, 5M PDF
• German, 10.5M PDF (sponsored by the Canton of Solothurn, Switzerland)
• Japanese (this is a HTML version)
• Russian, 8.8M PDF
• Spanish, 7.8M PDF  (translated by Francisco Yujra and sponsored by the Mixed Credit Cadastre Project in Guatemala)

QGIS 1.0.x

• English, 3.8MB PDF  (This version includes a Coding and Installation Guide)
• French, 6.8MB PDF (This version includes a Coding and Installation Guide)
• German, 3.1MB PDF (sponsored by the Canton of Solothurn, without Coding and Installation Guide.)
• Italian, 3.9MB PDF (Courtesy of Faunalia.it and Giuseppe Patti. Final parts of the Installation Guide are not yet translated.)

This document is the original Coding and Compilation Guide of the software Quantum GIS. It gives an introduction in writing applications and plugins in C++ and Python and describes the compilation precedure for GNU/Linux, Mac OSX and MS Windows. This document is released under the GNU Free Documentation License.

QGIS 1.6

• English, 0.7MB PDF

QGIS 1.0.x (LTS version)

• For QGIS 1.0.x the Coding and Compilation Guide is added to the User Guide as section "Installation"

GIS is becoming an increasingly important tool in environmental management, retail, military, police, tourism and many other spheres of our daily lives. This document is a gentle introduction in GIS with many examples described in 10 sections based on QGIS. This document is released under the GNU Free Documentation License. You find more material and information at http://linfiniti.com/dla/.

QGIS 1.0.x (LTS version)

• English, 4.7MB PDF (sponsored by Chief Directorate: Spatial Planning & Information, Department of Land Affairs, Eastern Cape, South Africa.)

Here we provide two documents: The QGIS API Documentation of the stable and the unstable version.

There is a doxygen generated API Documentation available in html format.

Here we provide a link to the online PyQGIS developer cookbook. It provides comprehensive information about the scripting support in QGIS using Python language.