Happy new year to the power of two!

For the first time we at OPENGIS.ch can celebrate with 2 people, Marco Bernasocchi and Matthias Kuhn both experienced QGIS developers and holders of a Master degree in GIScience.
After having worked individually in the last years, we have realized that there is a huge potential for us to join our knowledge – because the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. This is why starting from January 1st, 2015 we are working together as OPENGIS.ch LLC.

By Matthias Kuhn, il y a

Help mapping the Philippines

Hi, last night I helped teach some students of the UP (University of Philippines) how to do remote mapping for OSM (openstreetmap.org) data. It is extremely easy, just go to tasks.hotosm.org, login, choose a job, read the workflow tab, select a task (in the task tab) and finally click on Read more

Help Coron after Typhoon Hayan

Don’t use the donate button on the right, use the button at the bottom Hi all, as some of you know, I’m in the Philippines right now, on a WorldBank mission to help teach an open source planning, preparedness and response tool (inaSAFE) to locals. I’m in Manila where all Read more

QGIS 2.0 on android gets symbology dialog

Tonight I finally managed to workaround the last big missing feature. Due to bug 5170, the renderer’s user interface was missing, but after fighting for hours, a minor change in the code made all the UI work. So go download the latest nightly build and let me know ciao

QGIS 2.0 nightly features review

The last few weeks have been super exciting and intense in terms of QGIS development. I’ve been working a lot and sleeping little to get the latest and greatest stuff to you in the nightly packages.
Beside the whole UI and stability work, the nicest feature is probably the mbtiles support. mbtiles are raster tiles in a sqlite database and are blazing fast, have a look at it in the video below.

Getting closer to taming the snake

very geeky but I have to post this: D/Qt (27512): src/python/qgspythonutilsimpl.cpp: 188: (runString) COMAND OK: import sys D/Qt (27512): src/python/qgspythonutilsimpl.cpp: 188: (runString) COMAND OK: import os D/Qt (27512): src/python/qgspythonutilsimpl.cpp: 188: (runString) COMAND OK: sys.path = [« /data/data/org.qgis.qgis/files/share/python », »/data/data/org.qgis.qgis/files//python », »/data/data/org.qgis.qgis/files//python » + « /plugins », »/data/data/org.qgis.qgis/files/share/python/plugins »] + sys.path D/Qt (27512): src/python/qgspythonutilsimpl.cpp: 91: (initPython) newpaths: « /data/data/org.qgis.qgis/files/share/python », »/data/data/org.qgis.qgis/files//python », »/data/data/org.qgis.qgis/files//python » + « /plugins », »/data/data/org.qgis.qgis/files/share/python/plugins » D/Qt Read more