Thank you for sharing, George! And congratulations to the whole Quantarctica team!
I've shared your announcements on Twitter @qgis. Keep up the good work. Regards, Anita On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 3:41 PM, Paolo Cavallini <[email protected]> wrote: > Compliments to all the team! > > > Il 6 febbraio 2018 13:43:44 CET, George Roth <[email protected]> ha > scritto: >> >> Website: http://quantarctica.npolar.no/ >> >> Article: http://www.npolar.no/en/news/2018/02-06-relansering-av- >> Quantarctica.html >> >> >> >> Hello QGIS Community, >> >> >> >> The Norwegian Polar Institute is proud to announce the release of >> Quantarctica 3, the latest version of its free, cross-platform Antarctic >> mapping environment that combines QGIS and high-quality Antarctic >> scientific data. >> >> >> >> Quantarctica 3 is the result of a two-year dedicated development effort. >> Thanks to the work of the Quantarctica Project Team, Editorial Board, and >> feedback from hundreds of Antarctic researchers around the world, this >> version is Quantarctica's biggest release yet, adding: >> >> >> >> -Eight new themes with over 50 new datasets in over 100 new layers: >> Atmospheric Science, Biology, Environmental Management, Geology, Ice Cores, >> Oceanography, Sea Ice, and Social Science >> >> -New additions and updates to the pre-existing Geophysics and Glaciology >> categories >> >> -The Quantarctica Data Catalog (http://quantarctica.npolar. >> no/data-catalog), where you can view preview images, metadata, and >> citation information for every dataset >> >> -Northward expansion of Quantarctica's project boundary to 40°S, >> including subantarctic islands >> >> -Improved and expanded basemap, terrain, and satellite imagery layers >> >> -Updates, resolution improvements, and stability enhancements to datasets >> from v1 and v2 >> >> -New features in QGIS and significant enhancements to project stability, >> speed, and usability >> >> >> >> The QGIS and OSGeo communities have done a tremendous amount of work over >> the years that both directly and indirectly benefited Quantarctica - and by >> extension, hundreds of researchers on Earth's most remote, poorly mapped, >> and just plain weirdest continent. It's not only the active developments to >> QGIS that have helped us - every time you submitted a bug report, answered >> a question on StackExchange, or posted a tweet showing off a new feature, >> it's let us know that we're not alone, and there's a vibrant community out >> there that's building an open-source future for the world. >> >> >> >> We are convinced that Quantarctica could only exist, and be as popular as >> it is today, because of you. >> >> >> >> Visit http://quantarctica.npolar.no/ to download the latest version. And >> please consider sharing the news and your own Quantarctica-made creations >> on social media- #quantarctica, #qgis/@qgis , and @norskpolar are good >> things to tag! >> >> >> >> And as always, if you have any questions, comments, bug reports, or cool >> maps, send us an email at [email protected]. >> >> >> >> On behalf of the Quantarctica Project Team and the thousands of >> Antarcticans around the world, >> >> >> >> Happy Mapping! >> >> George Roth >> >> Anders Skoglund >> >> Kenichi Matsuoka >> > > -- > Sorry for being short > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >
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