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QGIS User Guide, Release 1.8.0
DB Manager
The DB manager is now officially part of QGIS core. You can drag layers from the QGIS Browser into DB
Manager and it will import your layer into your spatial database. Drag and drop tables between spatial databases
and they will get imported. You can use the DB Manager to execute SQL queries against your spatial database
and then view the spatial output for queries by adding the results to QGIS as a query layer. You can also create,
edit, delete, and empty tables, and move them to another schema.
Terrain Analysis Plugin
A new core plugin was added for doing terrain analysis (slope, aspect, hillshade, relief and ruggedness index).
New symbol layer types
• Line Pattern Fill
• Point Pattern Fill
• Ellipse renderer (render ellipse and also rectangles, triangles, crosses)
New plugin repository
Note that the old repository is now no longer supported by default; plugin authors are kindly requested to move
their plugins to the new repository. Get the QGIS Plugins list at http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/
More new features
• Support for nesting projects within other projects to embed content from other project files
• Group Selected: Option to group layers to a group
• Message log: Lets you keep an eye on the messages QGIS generates during loading and operation
• GUI Customization: Allows setting up simplified QGIS interface by hiding various components of main
window and widgets in dialogs
• Action Tool is now accessible from the map tools toolbar and allows you to click on a vector feature and
execute an action
• New scale selector: select from a list of predefined scales
• Pan To Selected tool: Pans the map to selected feature(s); does not change the zoom level
• Copy and paste styles between layers
• Updated CRS selector dialog
• Define Legend-independent drawing order
• MSSQL Spatial Support - you can now connect to your Microsoft SQL Server spatial databases using QGIS
• Print Composers allows to have multiple lines on legend items using a specified character
• Expression based labeling
• Heatmap Plugin - a new core plugin has been added for generating raster heatmaps from point data
• The GPS live tracking user interface was overhauled and many fixes and improvements were added to it
• The menu was re-organised a little - we now have separate menus for Vector, Raster, Web and many plugins
were updated to place their menus in the new Vector, Raster and Web top level menus
• Offset Curves - a new digitising tool for creating offset curves was added
• New tools in the Vector menu to Densify geometries and Build spatial index
• Export/add geometry column tool can export info using layer CRS, project CRS or ellipsoidal measurements
• Model/view based tree for rules in rule-based renderer
• Improvements in Spatial Bookmarks
• New Plugin metadata in metadata.txt
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