qgis(1)

qgis1

Qgis geographic information system

Usage

qgis [options] [file]

Overview

QGIS is a cross platform, Free and Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS). Supported platforms include Linux/Unix, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. QGIS supports vector, raster, and database formats. QGIS is licensed under the GNU General Public License.

Some of the major features include:

*Support for spatially enabled PostGIS tables
*Support for shapefiles, ArcInfo coverages, Mapinfo, and other formats
supported by OGR
*Raster support for a large number of formats
*Identify features
*Display attribute tables
*Select features
*GRASS Digitizing
*Feature labeling

Options

For a list of command-line options supported by this build, see: qgis --help

Files

~/.config/QGIS/qgis.conf

QGIS preferences file. This file stores windows size/location, loaded plugins, user options, and other application settings.

Releases

11 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 3.1–4.0
  2. 6.0
  3. 7
  4. 8–13
  5. Arch

--configpath until Debian 13 (Trixie); --extent until Debian 13 (Trixie); --height until Debian 13 (Trixie); --help until Debian 13 (Trixie); --lang until Debian 13 (Trixie); --nologo until Debian 13 (Trixie); --noplugins until Debian 13 (Trixie); --optionspath until Debian 13 (Trixie); --project until Debian 13 (Trixie); --snapshot until Debian 13 (Trixie); --width until Debian 13 (Trixie).

Bugs

See the QGIS home page (http://qgis.org) for a list of known issues with the latest release.

Author

Gary Sherman <sherman at mrcc.com>

From qgis 4.2.3-4 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.