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QFieldCloud now opensource – Happy 10 Years of field mapping with QGIS

Today, on QField’s 10th anniversary, we’re extremely proud to publish the results of over 18 months of development and give you the source code of QFieldCloud to go and make your awesome adaptations, solutions, and hopefully contributions 🙂 If you want to quickly try it out, head to https://qfield.cloud where our hosted solution is running and secure yourself a spot in the beta program. QFieldCloud’s unique technology allows your team to focus on what’s important, making Read more…

By Marco Bernasocchi, 4 months2021-06-08 ago

QField 1.9 Taivaskero is out to further empower users

From unlocking selective atlas layout export to opening individual datasets and creating GeoPDFs, QField 1.9 is all about giving even more power to its users. The release also comes with significant user experience improvement such as faster rendering and restoring the last viewed map extent.

By Matthias Kuhn, 6 months2021-04-15 ago

Powerful and gentle QField 1.8 Selma sneaked in

Collect accurate data with freehand digitizing and improved form widgets, use the data from your external GNSS receivers without any third-party apps and enjoy the pleasant usability of QField 1.8 Selma.

By David, 8 months2021-02-24 ago

New QGIS Courses dates Spring 2021

We published our new dates for this springs QGIS online courses. German: QGIS Einsteigerkurs (12/13.04.2021) Fully Booked, next course Autumn 2021 QGIS Fortgeschrittene (27.04/04.05.2021) Fully Booked, next course Autumn 2021 French Cours de base (27/28.04.2021) Fully Booked, next course Autumn 2021 Cours avancé (11/18.05.2021) Fully Booked, next course Autumn 2021 Italian Corso di base (26/27.04.2021) Cancelled, next course Autumn 2021 Corso avanzato (10/17.05.2021) Cancelled, next course Autumn 2021 The courses last two days (9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.) via Google Read more…

By Marco Bernasocchi, 9 months2021-02-01 ago

QField 1.7 Rockies hits the stage

QField 1.7 Rockies hits the stage! Be ready for the cold weather with a smooth coordinate search, value relation filters, all new data-driven QML & HTML widgets, enhanced geometry editing functionalities and an expandable legend.

By David, 12 months2020-10-20 ago

DevOps Engineer 50 – 100% (Remote in Switzerland)

We’re looking for a German speaking senior DevOps Engineer (50-100%) to join our distributed team in Switzerland and take over responsibility for internal and clients infrastructures as well as consulting clients.

By Marco Bernasocchi, 1 year2020-08-25 ago

QField 1.6 is out!

Editing multiple features at the same time, support for stylus pens, dynamic configuration of image names and much more.QField 1.6 Qinling 秦岭 comes packed with awesome new features and an improved user experience. We have been very busy over the last few months working on a new and shiny QField release. We have added many new features that increase efficiency on the field or allow for new workflows. In parallel, we have also been working Read more…

By Matthias Kuhn, 1 year2020-08-18 ago

Generate DXF on QGIS server

Everyone knows QGIS is on the desktop and mobile devices. Many know QGIS is on the web with QGIS server through OGC services. Some know QGIS server has its own extension to generate PDFs. But did you know that QGIS server can also produce DXF files? DXF DXF files are mainly used for interchanging CAD drawings, vector geometries with styles and attributes. With a couple of compromises, these files can be imported and exported to Read more…

By Matthias Kuhn, 1 year2020-06-24 ago

Offline WMS – Benchmarking raster formats for QField

What are we looking for? We would like to use WMS offline on QField. For that, we need to figure out what is the best way to get a raster from a WMS and which format is the most efficient (size and performance). In this post we’ll show you is how to generate the ideal raster file from a WMS and the results of our efficiency tests for the the different raster formats. WMS to Read more…

By Lucie, 1 year2020-06-09 ago

Marco Bernasocchi – Mr. Multitaski

CEO · Co-founder

Outgoing, flexible and open, Marco fluently speaks five languages. The best thing: He not only knows how to say it but also knows what he is talking about!

Matthias Kuhn – Mr. Noproblemo

CTO · Co-founder

There are no QGIS problems for Matthias - only more or less difficult tasks. He solves them sustainably and farsightedly with visionary ideas. And not just since yesterday …

Mario Baranzini - Mr. Endurato

Coordinator Web Applications and Infrastructure

Continually developing and learning new technologies is part of his daily routine. Complex QGIS problems are everyday life for him - and solve them too!

David Signer – Mr. Inspirato

Coordinator QField and Interlis Systems

What does creativity have in common with software development? David Singer. He thinks cleverly and works in a structured manner, writes meticulous formulas or eloquent texts and, as an exception, confirms the rule.

Denis Rouzaud – Mr. Technico

Coordinator QGIS and industry solutions

He speaks programming languages, thinks spatially and manages Linux servers like pieces of cake. If he didn't have such a high level of social skills, you could think of him as a robot.

Olivier Dalang – Mr. Tuttomondo

Senior Developer

He led GIS projects in Europe and Africa and worked as a geospatial consultant in Fiji. Now the man of the world and experienced GIS expert also work for opengis.ch. On a long journey together!

Lucie Nicolier - Ms. Interoperata

GIS expert

The experienced geomatics engineer comes from western Switzerland and is world class. She knows the geo industry and masters GIS problems from arcs to z-values!

Ivan Ivanov - Mr. Remoto

Senior developer

Finishing his master's in Spatial Engineering at University of Twente in the Netherlands, Ivan decided to join OPENGIS.ch Ninjas to get some serious open-source GIS exposure.

Fabian Binder - Mr. Nebulato

Senior Full-Stack Developer

Atmospheric scientist by formation, full-stacker by passion. When not designing beautiful WebGIS JS frontends, Fabian loves unchanining his hands into Django...

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