24th Contributors QGIS Meeting in Firenze 2022
What a blast it was!
The first QField user day in Bern with around 40 participants from Switzerland and neighbouring countries was packed with use case presentations and interesting discussions.
Writing a feature-based processing algorithm at the example of M-value interpolation
Amongst all the processing algorithms already available in QGIS, sometimes the one thing you need is missing. This happened not a long time ago, when we were asked to find a way to continuously visualise traffic on the Swiss motorway network (polylines) using frequently measured traffic volumes from discrete measurement Read more…
A New Trick up QField’s Sleeve: Animated Maps
Starting with QField 2.2, users can fully rely on animation capabilities that have made their way into QGIS during its last development cycle. This can be a powerful mean to highlight key elements on a map that require special user attention. The example below demonstrates a scenario where animated raster Read more…
High Efficiency with Buffered Transactional Editing in QGIS
Tired of start/stop editing for every single layer in your project with mixed data sources?Starting from version 3.26, QGIS has a new transaction mode called “Buffered Transaction Groups”. Within this mode, all layers which are not read-only are put in one “transaction group” and handled together when the actions “Toggle Read more…
Swiss QGIS user group Meeting Berne 2022
What a blast it was!
The first QField user day in Bern with around 40 participants from Switzerland and neighbouring countries was packed with use case presentations and interesting discussions.
QField 2.0 Arctic Fox is here
Let’s not paraphrase it, QField 2.0 is here and it is taking professional GIS fieldwork to a completely new level.
QField Users Sit Down, We Need to Talk About Storage Access on Android
Since November 2021, Google has enforced new storage access limitations for apps published on its Play store which prohibits direct storage access on Android 11 and above forcing QField to adapt and rely on importing projects and datasets to access those.
QField collected data crucial in disaster relief after Tonga’s volcanic eruption
For once, it’s not an app from the Silicon Valley, but from Laax in the Swiss Alps that made the news. By publishing QField as an open-source app, OPENGIS.ch allows companies, organisations and even countries without the necessary financial means to have the opportunity to benefit from this important data collection app. And it is being used: Over half a million downloads have already been achieved. Now, since the volcanic eruption in Tonga on 15 January 2022, the app of the small Laax-based company is playing a not-unimportant role in disaster response planning.
QField 1.10 Uluru: Faster, Better, Stronger
While OPENGIS.ch’s GeoNinjas are busy getting QFieldCloud ready for primetime, it has not kept them away from concocting a brand new feature-packed QField 1.10 “Uluru”. Most users will find something to fall in love with in this release. From an improved feature form to new digitizing functionalities and quality of Read more…
QFieldCloud now opensource – Happy 10 Years of field mapping with QGIS
Today, on QField’s 10th anniversary, we’re extremely proud to publish the results of over 18 months of development and give you the source code of QFieldCloud to go and make your awesome adaptations, solutions, and hopefully contributions 🙂 If you want to quickly try it out, head to https://qfield.cloud where our Read more…