24th Contributors QGIS Meeting in Firenze 2022
What a blast it was!
The first QField user day in Bern with around 40 participants from Switzerland and neighbouring countries was packed with use case presentations and interesting discussions.
Writing a feature-based processing algorithm at the example of M-value interpolation
Amongst all the processing algorithms already available in QGIS, sometimes the one thing you need is missing. This happened not a long time ago, when we were asked to find a way to continuously visualise traffic on the Swiss motorway network (polylines) using frequently measured traffic volumes from discrete measurement stations (points) alongside the motorways. In order to keep working with the existing polylines, and be able to attribute more than one value of traffic Read more…
A New Trick up QField’s Sleeve: Animated Maps
Starting with QField 2.2, users can fully rely on animation capabilities that have made their way into QGIS during its last development cycle. This can be a powerful mean to highlight key elements on a map that require special user attention. The example below demonstrates a scenario where animated raster markers are used to highlight active fires within the visible map extent. Notice how the subtle fire animation helps draw viewers’ eyes to those important Read more…
High Efficiency with Buffered Transactional Editing in QGIS
Tired of start/stop editing for every single layer in your project with mixed data sources?Starting from version 3.26, QGIS has a new transaction mode called “Buffered Transaction Groups”. Within this mode, all layers which are not read-only are put in one “transaction group” and handled together when the actions “Toggle Editing” or “Save Layer Edits” are activated. It doesn’t matter if the layers come from different providers like GeoPackage, PostgreSQL or Shapefile. Edits are buffered Read more…
Swiss QGIS user group Meeting Berne 2022
What a blast it was!
The first QField user day in Bern with around 40 participants from Switzerland and neighbouring countries was packed with use case presentations and interesting discussions.
QField 2.0 Arctic Fox is here
Let’s not paraphrase it, QField 2.0 is here and it is taking professional GIS fieldwork to a completely new level.
QField Users Sit Down, We Need to Talk About Storage Access on Android
Since November 2021, Google has enforced new storage access limitations for apps published on its Play store which prohibits direct storage access on Android 11 and above forcing QField to adapt and rely on importing projects and datasets to access those.
New QGIS Courses dates Spring 2022
We published our new dates for this springs QGIS online courses. German: QGIS_Einsteigerkurs, Zürich 26.4./03.05.2022, fully booked – next course autumn 2022 QGIS_Fortgeschrittenenkurs, Zürich 10.05./17.05.2022, next course autumn 2022 French: Cours_de_base, Lausanne 25.04./02.05.2022, cancelled – next course autumn 2022 Cours_avancé, Lausanne 16.05./23.05.2022, fully booked – next course autumn 2022 Italian: Corso_di_base, Bellinzona 27.04./04.05.2022, next course autumn 2022 Corso_avanzato, Bellinzona 18.05./25.05.2022, cancelled – next course autumn 2022 The courses last two days (9:00 a.m. – 5:00 Read more…
QField collected data crucial in disaster relief after Tonga’s volcanic eruption
For once, it’s not an app from the Silicon Valley, but from Laax in the Swiss Alps that made the news. By publishing QField as an open-source app, OPENGIS.ch allows companies, organisations and even countries without the necessary financial means to have the opportunity to benefit from this important data collection app. And it is being used: Over half a million downloads have already been achieved. Now, since the volcanic eruption in Tonga on 15 January 2022, the app of the small Laax-based company is playing a not-unimportant role in disaster response planning.
Model Baker 6.7 – Noch nie war’s so einfach
Den QGIS Model Baker gibt’s ja schon lange. Vor mehr als vier Jahren kam die Version 1.0.0 heraus – damals noch unter dem Namen QGIS Project Generator. Seither ist viel geschehen. Und speziell in diesem Jahr ist viel betreffend Benutzbarkeit gegangen. Der UsabILIty Hub ist integriert, Baskets und Datasets werden unterstützt und dank eines Wizards verliert sich der Benutzer nicht mehr in Konfigurationen und Dialogen. Dieser Blogeintrag beginnt mit kurzen Einführung in Model Baker und Read more…
