It’s been almost 2 weeks since FOSS4G 2019 has crossed the finishing line. And it was a truly inspiring event with many participants from all cultures and interests. We do not need to repeat that the local organizers did a great job. That we had an awesome night in a Read more
We often have QGIS project files that are part of a customer project. To be able to manage versions of these project files or have multiple people working on it, they are managed inside a git repository. This is however not easy, because with every save of a project file, Read more
This article describes a new algorithm for the processing modeler called feature filter algorithm. If you are already familiar with ETL concepts and the graphical modeler, you can directly jump to the section the feature filter algorithm. Building workflows for repetitive tasks When building workflows for simple or complex geodata Read more
Der Kurs richtet sich an PostgreSQL Benutzer, die ihre Administratoren-Kenntisse erweitern wollen. Es werden verschiedene Ansätze erläutert, um den Einsatz ihrer Datenbanken zu optimieren, und anhand von verschiedenen Beispielen geübt.
We are very proud to announce that one of our founders and directors Marco Bernasocchi was elected as QGIS.org project steering committee (PSC) co-chair. With over 10 years of involvement with QGIS (he started working with QGIS 0.6) Marco will serve for the next two years as one of the Read more
Recently there have been some questions and discussions about python based expression functions and how parameters like usesGeometry need to be used. So I thought I’d quickly write down how this works. There is some intelligence If the geometry or a column is passed in as a parameter you do not Read more
Expressions in QGIS are more and more widely used for all kinds of purposes. For example the recently introduced geometry generators allow drawing awesome effects with modified feature geometries on the fly. The last days at the QGIS developer meeting 2017, I spent some time looking into and improving the Read more
Behind the scenes a lot has happened to get ready for Qt5 and Python3. On the same codebase that is becoming the next release QGIS 2.16. This is really a great thing since we can focus work on a single master branch and I’m very happy that we got so Read more
QGIS 3 is not yet there and there is still plenty of time to prepare and migrate. But I thought I would give some advice about things that you can keep in mind while working on your plugins to make your life easier when you will have to actually do Read more
Processing just got a new testing framework to improve the long-term stability of this important plugin. And you can help to improve it, even if you are not a software developer! This is yet another piece in our never-stopping crusade to improve the stability and quality of the best desktop GIS on Read more