QGIS is amongst the most featureful open source desktop GIS out there, it just got better this week with the release of QGIS 2.6 ‘Brighton’. The visual changelog offers a long description of the new features and improvements. Here’s the index, please follow the link to read the details and see the accompanying screenshots:
- General
- Feature: Project filename in properties
- Feature: Allow removing last point while measuring via del/backspace keys
- Feature: select related feature on the canvas from the relation reference widget
- Feature: Editor widgets
- Feature: Optionally use just a subset of fields from the joined layer
- Feature: Expression field (virtual fields)
- Feature: Actions can now have an associated icon
- Feature: Additional expressions types and options
- Feature: Classes within graduated and categorised renderers can be toggled
- Feature: Legend improvements
- Data Providers
- Feature: DXF export improvements
- Map Composer
- Feature: Control over hiding print composer items from prints/exports
- Feature: Control over page printing for empty composer frames
- Feature: Item tree panel
- Feature: More control over appearance of composer arrow/line items
- Feature: Data defined control of composer items
- Feature: Composer images can be specifed as remote URLS
- Feature: Composer Table improvements
- Feature: Composer improvements
- Feature: Improved item snapping
- Feature: Multiple overviews for a map item
- Feature: HTML item improvements
- Feature: Composer map grid improvements
- Processing
- Feature: On-line collection of models and scripts
- Feature: New modeler implementation
- Programmability
- Feature: API changes for QGIS widgets
- QGIS Server
- Feature: Enhancements of searching with GetFeatureInfo request
- Feature: Add a precision setting for GetFeatureInfo geometry attributes
- Symbology
- Feature: Better random colour choice
- Feature: Symbology user interface improvements
- User Interface
- Feature: Syntax highlighting code editor
- Feature: Color palettes
- Feature: New color picker dialog
- Feature: Single select feature tool merged into select by rectangle
- Feature: Add layer to map canvas behaviour
- Feature: Add icon size 48 and 64
- Feature: New colour buttons
- Feature: Context menu for identify tool
There’s also other recent QGIS-related entries that are of interest:
- QGIS Compared: GIS Analysis,comparing hillshading, attribute calculation, generalizing, models and more
- There’s also a short entry on QGIS Inverse Shapeburst Fills
Screenshot of multiple overviews within a map:
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