Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS) that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows. QGIS supports vector, raster, and database formats. QGIS is licensed under the GNU General Public License. QGIS lets you browse and create map data on your computer. It supports many common spatial data formats (e.g. ESRI ShapeFile, geotiff). QGIS supports plugins to do things like display tracks from your GPS. QGIS is Open Source software and its free of cost (download here). We welcome contributions from our user community in the form of code contributions, bug fixes, bug reports, contributed documentation, advocacy and supporting other users on our mailing lists and forums. Financial contributions are also welcome.

This page coordinates activities of the QGIS project related to distribution on the Ubuntu Gnu/Linux Distro.
This is the ubuntu PPA team for Quantum GIS (QGIS). For more information about QGIS, please visit the QGIS home page at http://qgis.org

For ubuntu packages please refer to the https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis PPA, which has the released versions of Quantum GIS for several distributions.

For nightly builds please refer to our debian-nightly repository as described on at http://www.qgis.org/wiki/Download#Trunk_4