Geometry generator symbology
Say hello to geometry generators, a new way to use expression syntax to generate a geometry on the fly during the rendering process.
QGIS Welcome Page
Whenever you start QGIS you basically do it because? Right, because you need to do GIS work. Ah, how I love rhetorical questions to start a post. And most of the time one continues to work on a QGIS project which he has prepared before. For me 99% of the time, I Read more
Syntactic sugar for PyQGIS
PyQGIS now supports a nice new addition for handling edit sessions in layers. This way, changes get committed automatically at the end of a successful (python) edit session.
with edit(layer):
do your changes here()
QField in the wild
QField Experimental is out, after a couple of months of requirements gathering, private early alpha testing and foremost tons of emails requesting access to the testes group we decided today to put the current BETA version in the playstore. This means that from now on you can install QField just like any other android app by using the playstore.
Tak Nødebo
After a week with QGIS members from all over the world we arrived back home and can say that once again, the QGIS developer meeting #13 was a great event. It started with the QGIS User Conference where a lot of interesting talks from experiences in day-to-day usage to low-level Read more
Performance for mass updating features
This post discusses how to improve the performance of pyqgis code which updates a lot of features by a factor of more than 10.
InaSAFE wins Open Source ‘Rookie of the Year’ award
We have worked incredibly hard over the last year to make the InaSAFE plugin for QGIS, with a team of dedicated developers from AUSAID, WorldBank, Linfiniti, opengis.ch and a number of other developers and contributors, so it is really great to receive this acknowledgement! Here is looking to another great year of working on InaSAFE for 2013!
QGIS Globe works again
Just stumbled upon this post by Pirmin, and he says Globe has been fixed. Cool, thanks Pirmin and Regione Umbria for sponsoring his work! And here a demo of what the guys at Oslandia do with it: PostGIS 3D demo from Oslandia on Vimeo.
InaSAFE 1.0 Launched
End October after a heavy development sprint, the InaSAFE team (which consists of developers from around the world, funded by AUSAID and The World Bank / GFDRR) released inaSAFE 1.0 at the AMCDRR, a high level conference for disaster risk reduction in Asia. During the same event, inaSAFE was even demonstrated to the President of Indonesia.