SEXTANTE platform for QGIS

21.03.2012 18:57 ·  GIS  ·  qgis, plugins, processing

Victor Olaya has developed another framework for integrating various libraries and tools into QGIS. It is based on the SEXTANTE platform, which includes a toolbox, a graphical modeler and a script creator. It also provides a batch processing interface, command history, and some other features. The platform currently supports SAGA, GRASS, and R algorithms, as well as tools from the fTools and mmqgis plugins. According to the author, it is quite easy to add new algorithms and new providers.

I haven’t had a chance to test it properly yet, but it looks interesting and promising. The screenshot shows the list of tools, the GUI of the Basic Statistics tool from fTools and the result it produced.

Please note that this is still a work in progress, so regular users are better off waiting for the official release rather than using code from SVN.