Model Baker INTERLIS Data Validator

The fully integrated Data Validator, which allows validating your data directly in QGIS against their INTERLIS model, exists for almost a year now. After lots of user feedback and some investments, it’s now shinier than ever. Time for an update and a little step-by-step guide. Why is it so awesome? Read more…

QGIS2 compatibility plugin

Lately I’ve been spending time porting a bigger plugin from QGIS 2.8 to 3 while maintaining 2.8 compatibility. You can find it at https://github.com/opengisch/qgis2compat/ and https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/qgis2compat/ One code to rule them all. My target was to have to edit the source code as little as possible to simulate a lazy Read more…

Updating PyQt signals that use lambda in QGIS with 2to3

Just for the sake of documenting things, when running qgis 2to3 on a plugin I encountered a tricky situation regarding signals. MYQGISDIR/scripts/2to3 -f signals -w my/plugin/path The original code: extra_arg = « my test argument » QObject.connect( action, SIGNAL( « triggered() »), lambda extra_arg=my_arg: show_extra_arg(extra_arg)) def do_load_project(extra_arg): print extra_arg # « my test argument » The Read more…

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.