{"id":901,"date":"2014-07-03T13:42:20","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T17:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/?p=901"},"modified":"2014-10-08T17:54:04","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T21:54:04","slug":"qgis-2-4-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/?p=901","title":{"rendered":"QGIS 2.4 released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.qgis.org\/\">QGIS 2.4<\/a> (Chugiak) was released recently. QGIS runs on Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and BSD operating systems. It is free, open source (FOSS) software. QGIS is now producing new versions quarterly, so look for the next update in October. <\/p>\n<p>Some highlights:<br \/>\n\u2022QGIS now has multithreaded rendering. The upshot? It&#8217;s <em>FAST<\/em> when your map is redrawing.<br \/>\n\u2022Better python support. QGIS is scriptable via python, and the console and API have been improved over earlier releases.<br \/>\n\u2022There are new analysis functions, updated plugin management, and map composition and labeling tools.<\/p>\n<p>A complete list of what&#8217;s new is available <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.qgis.org\/2.0\/en\/docs\/user_manual\/preamble\/whats_new.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in using QGIS and would like support, send a message to it-help@mtu.edu to make an appointment with a consultant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QGIS 2.4 (Chugiak) was released recently. QGIS runs on Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and BSD operating systems. It is free, open source (FOSS) software. QGIS is now producing new versions quarterly, so look for the next update in October. Some highlights: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/?p=901\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[113,26,112,104,114],"class_list":["post-901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information","tag-foss","tag-gis","tag-opensource","tag-qgis","tag-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1000,"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions\/1000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}