QGIS 3.0 Released

Caitlin Dempsey

Major content update:

Minor updates:

The much heralded release of QGIS 3.0 happened today (see the release notice from the QGIS blog).  Each release of QGIS is named after a city and for 3.0 the name is Girona (a city in Spain which hosted the 15th QGIS developer meeting).  For those anxious to download and try out this major release of the open source GIS software from qgis.org, the installers are in the process of being prepared.

To track the release of the packages, follow the official @qgis Twitter account:





In the meantime, you can get a feel for what 3.0 has to offer by visiting Anita Graser’s blog where she has posted a Resources for QGIS 3.0 page with links and videos where you can learn about the new features.  Kurt Menke has posted a fairly comprehensive article about his favorite features of QGIS 3.0 complete with screenshots and animated GIFs.

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Caitlin Dempsey

Caitlin Dempsey is a geographer, writer, and founder and editor of Geography Realm. She holds bachelor's and master's degrees in Geography from UCLA and a Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) from San José State University.

For more than two decades, she has written about geography, maps, geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing, satellite imagery, and environmental science. Her work focuses on making geography accessible to a broad audience through articles, tutorials, and educational resources.

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