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For Wikipedia, the advantage of GIS maps are precision, reliability, and upgrade in visual elegance for our maps. It will be mainly '''useful to generate topographic background (png, svg), shaded reliefs (png), and political backgrounds (png, svg)'''. While [[GRASS GIS]] seems still to be the most common GIS software, it's usage is quite rude (lot of console). Also, beginners will prefer QGis, which is quite powerful, human friendly, integrate GRASS GIS and [[GDAL]], is used as a graphical user interface of GRASS GIS, and still have a lot of space to improve your GIS mapmaking skills.

[[File:QGis_Print_composer_output_-_06_localizator_starting_point_(correct).png|thumb|600px|center|Example of QGis. Help to create hight quality topographic background (png, svg), shaded reliefs (png), and political backgrounds (png, svg)]]

{{Digital cartography tutorials}}

=== The tools ===