QQIS Help Forums

Wednesday, 29 April, 2015

At some point using QGIS you’ll have a question about how something works or wondering how to solve a spatial problem. Help forums (for any software) are invaluable for this, allowing you to interact with other users. And QGIS…. doesn’t have forums! However it does have plenty of people that are active users and interact…. further information on their support page. Instead of forums, that use mailing lists instead. These are far more efficient to maintain, so head on over and subscribe to the Qgis-user mailing list allowing you to receive each email or daily digests (I usually go for the latter). Mailing lists are often thought of as quite ephemeral, but not if you use nabble. Here you can get an archive of all Qgis-user emails (and indeed for all the QGIS mailing lists) which are fully searchable and presented as a forum. Indeed, if you are subscribed to the mailing list, you can actually post through nabble. A great way to find (and give) help.

The other main port of call is Stackexchange. Here they have an active GIS Group which operates as a QGIS Forum if you tag your posting with “qgis”. Another very helpful location.

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