QGIS(1)

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💖 qgis 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for qgis — like, the whole QGIS Geographic Information System — and it lives in the General Commands Manual section, which is giving very "section 1, main character energy" if u ask me. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

qgis — the QGIS Geographic Information System, bestie. that's it, that's the name. 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

qgis [options] [file]

so u got ur options (the lil extras) and u got ur file (the thing u actually wanna open). simple. iconic. 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

fr fr, QGIS is a cross platform, Free and Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS). no cap. the supported platforms include:

  • Linux/Unix
  • Mac OS X
  • Microsoft Windows

QGIS supports vector, raster, and database formats — all of them, the whole squad. 🎀

and ngl, QGIS is licensed under the GNU General Public License, which is genuinely such a slay of a license. 💜

🦋 some of the major features include 🦋

these are the highlights, the greatest hits, the main character features:

  • 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

like… identify features? display attribute tables? select features?? she does it ALL. 😭🔥

✨ OPTIONS ✨

okay so this is the part where I'd love to list every single flag for u, but the manpage is literally telling us to go look elsewhere:

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

so yes bestie, run qgis --help and the build itself will spill all the tea about its command-line options. each build can differ, so don't come for me — go ask the binary. 💀

✨ FILES ✨

  • ~/.config/QGIS/qgis.conf — the QGIS preferences file, aka where she keeps her whole personality. this file stores windows size/location, loaded plugins, user options, and other application settings. yes, windows size/location, spelled exactly like that, I don't make the rules. 🍓

✨ BUGS ✨

there are known issues, because nothing is perfect (except maybe this manpage 💅). for a list of known issues with the latest release, see the QGIS home page: http://qgis.org

✨ AUTHOR ✨

Gary Sherman <sherman at mrcc.com> — the icon, the legend, the author. 👑

and that's the whole vibe check, bestie. this page came from the General Commands Manual for QGIS and it's dated March 9, 2011 — yes, 2011, a whole vintage moment 🎀 — and every last detail above is exactly what the original said, no cap. go forth and map things. 🌈💖

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