Nathans QGIS and GIS blog: Shortcuts to hide/show panels in QGIS
Just a quick one to show how to assign shortcuts to hide and show for panels in QGIS. Add this to your...
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anitagraser.com: Exploring open government population data collected by ODVIS-AT
At FOSS4G2013, I had the pleasure to attend a presentation about the ODVIS.AT project by Marius Schebella from the FH Salzburg. The goal of the project – which ended in Summer 2014 – was “to display...
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Kartoza: Setting up a Fedora 21 QGIS Workstation
I have been a long time Ubuntu user (I have actually been using it since Ubuntu 4.10 ‘Warty Warthog’) – the first official release. The advent of Ubuntu saw an end to my distro hopping whilst looking...
View Articlenyalldawson.net: Kickstarter Alert – Live Layer Effects for QGIS
QGIS is well regarded for its fantastic cartographic abilities – it’s got a huge range of symbology styles and options which can be used to style your maps. But there’s more we can do to push this even...
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anitagraser.com: Top10 QGIS Planet posts 2014
It’s the end of December and time to recap 2014. Therefore, I decided to have a look at what this year has brought us. There were plenty of great posts for both casual and power users as well as...
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anitagraser.com: Happy new year!
Thank you for a great 2014! It’s been a pleasure to see the open source GIS community grow and experience what we can create together. It’s great to see the interest for open source GIS all over the...
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anitagraser.com: How to: watercolor pastel style in QGIS
Today’s post is a follow-up to a recent map experiment which I published in the QGIS Flickr group. It’s basically an inverted Stamen Toner style with an image in the map composition background instead...
View ArticleANDROID · GIS · WEB: 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...
View ArticleQGIS Dutch Community: Use of the Flemish geographical data portal “Geopunt”...
Geopunt website Geopunt is the central portal for geographical data of the Flemish government. Beside an online viewer, a catalogue is available from where data can be downloaded. A lot of these data...
View Articlenyalldawson.net: QGIS – live layer effects Kickstarter update
Here’s another quick video demonstration of the latest developments in layer effects – effects on polygon and polyline layers, and outer glow effects:Time is running out to fund this campaign and make...
View ArticleANDROID · GIS · WEB: QGIS Mobile 0.2 Demo
QGIS Mobile (temporary name until we decide the definitive name) is a touch optimized interface for field work developed by OPENGIS.ch. It is with great pleasure the we want to share with you the demo...
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anitagraser.com: A line gradient style hack
Today’s post was motivated by a question over on gis.stackexchange, basically: How to draw a line with a gradient?The issue we have to deal with is there is no gradient line style yet … But there are...
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Alexandre Neto's blog: Etiquetas com guias em QGIS e Postgis | Labels leading...
Recentemente tive necessidade de colocar etiquetas de texto em elementos com geometrias muito próximas, fazendo com que as mesmas colidissem umas com as outras.Recently I had the need to add labels to...
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Kartoza: A quick hack to select all multipart features in QGIS
Today we wanted to find all the multipart features in this layer:Here is a quick hack I did in QGIS to find them: Just make sure that a vector layer is active in the layer list, paste the above code...
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Alexandre Neto's blog: Etiquetas com guias em QGIS e Postgis | Labels leading...
Recentemente tive necessidade de colocar etiquetas de texto em elementos com geometrias muito próximas, fazendo com que as mesmas colidissem umas com as outras.Recently I had the need to add labels to...
View ArticleNathans QGIS and GIS blog: Function editor for QGIS expressions
A new feature for QGIS 2.8 is a function editor for expressions. Being able to define your own custom functions has be possible for a while now, over a year, I even have a plugin (Expressions+) that...
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Nathans QGIS and GIS blog: New addition
Stace and I would like to welcome Matilda Anne Woodrow, born 5/1/15 at 10:36am.She is a nice way to start 2015.After the pretty crappy year that was 2014 it was finally nice to see Matilda in the...
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Kartoza: How to load a QGIS project in python
Today in a project we are working on we wanted to load a QGIS project. It takes surprisingly few lines of code to make a small standalone application that loads a project and then shows it as a map in...
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Lutra Consulting: QGIS Layer Tree API (Part 3)
In the two previous blog posts we have learned how to query a layer tree and how to modify it. All these new APIs are available since QGIS 2.4 release. Today we will look into how to make layer trees...
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anitagraser.com: Publishing interactive web maps using QGIS
We all know that QGIS is great for designing maps but did you know that QGIS is also great for interactive web maps? It is! Just check out qgis2leaf and qgis2threejs. To give these two plugins a test...
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