QGIS is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS) licensed under the GNU General Public License. QGIS is an official project of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). It runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, Windows and Android and supports numerous vector, raster, and database formats and functionalities.
Availability and Restrictions
Versions
The following versions of QGIS are available on OSC clusters:
| Version | Owens | Pitzer |
|---|---|---|
| 3.4.12 | X* | X* |
* Current default version
You can use module spider qgis to view available modules for a given machine. Feel free to contact OSC Help if you need other versions for your work.
Access
QGIS is available to all OSC users. If you have any questions, please contact OSC Help.
Publisher/Vendor/Repository and License Type
GNU General Public License.
Usage
Usage on Owens
Set-up
To configure your environment, run the following command:
module load qgis. The default version of QGIS will be loaded. To select a particular version, use module load qgis/<version>.Usage
The Singularity container system is used to manage and run the QGIS application. To run the QGIS container, run
qgis.sif. For more information on using Singularity at OSC, see HOWTO: Use Docker and Singularity Containers at OSC.Usage on Pitzer
Set-up
To configure your environment, run the following command:
module load qgis. The default version of QGIS will be loaded. To select a particular version, use module load qgis/<version>.Usage
The Singularity container system is used to manage and run the QGIS application. To run the QGIS container, run
qgis.sif. For more information on using Singularity at OSC, see HOWTO: Use Docker and Singularity Containers at OSC.Further Reading
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