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diff --git a/academic/qgis/README b/academic/qgis/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..fa8a666194 --- /dev/null +++ b/academic/qgis/README @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Geographic Information System +that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows. QGIS lets you +browse and create map data on your computer. It supports many +common spatial data formats (e.g. ESRI ShapeFile, geotiff). + +The following packages are required by qgis: proj, geos, gdal, R, +gsl and numpy. Optional dependencies include postgresql, postgis +and gpsbabel. All these packages are available at SlackBuilds.org. + +The Quantum GIS homepage is at http://qgis.org/ |