QField background tracking

Years ago, the QField community and its users showed their love for their favourite field app by supporting a successful crowdfunding to improve camera handling. Since then, OPENGIS.ch has continued to lead the development of QField with the regular support of sponsors. We couldn’t be prouder of the progress we Read more

Unterstützung für WMTS im QGIS Swiss Locator

Das QGIS swiss locator Plugin erleichtert in der Schweiz vielen Anwendern das Leben dadurch, dass es die umfangreichen Geodaten von swisstopo und opendata.swiss zugänglich macht. Darunter ein breites Angebot an GIS Layern, aber auch Objektinformationen und eine Ortsnamensuche. Dank eines Förderprojektes der Anwendergruppe Schweiz durfte OPENGIS.ch ihr Plugin um eine Read more

By Matthias Kuhn, ago

QField Jump-start

You want to start collecting field data but never worked with a GIS before? You are a passionate QGIS user and would like a jump start your fieldwork setup? You are a senior GIS manager and would like to optimize your teams’ mobile data collection efficiency? Let us you introduce Read more

New QGIS Courses dates Spring 2023

We published our new dates for this springs QGIS online courses. French: Cours_de_base, Lausanne 05.04./26.04.2023 Cours_avancé, Lausanne 28.04./03.05.2023 The courses last two days (9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.) and cost 990 CHF per person. As in our in-person courses, we limit our instructor to participant ratio to a maximum of Read more

Cours QGIS avancé, Lausanne 28.04./03.05.2023

Le cours se déroule sur 2 jours (9:00 – 17:00) et coûte 990 CHF par personne (dîner et certificat inclus). Un enseignant sera prévu pour un maximum de 6 personnes et 2 enseignants pour 7 à 12 personnes. Description A l’issue de ce cours, les participants seront en mesure de mettre en œuvre des projets Read more

QField 2.6: perfecting high-accuracy positioning

It’s only been a few weeks into the new year, but we’ve got great news for you: a brand new QField 2.6 “Geeky Gecko ?” has been released with a focus on positioning improvements, including Bluetooth support for Windows. And with that, we are delighted to remove the ‘beta’ status from QField for Windows.

By Mathieu, ago

User defined field names in export from QGIS

Thanks to the sponsoring of the Swiss QGIS User Group, starting from QGIS 3.26 is it possible to override field names in the layer export dialog. Previous to that, QGIS would always export with the technical names from the database, whereas now it’s possible to override with the alias defined Read more

By Damiano, ago