Ireland QGIS User Group Blog: The 10th annual FOSS4G conference
The 10th annual FOSS4G conference was held from 8th-13th September in Portland, Oregon, USA. FOSS4G is the world’s premier global gathering of developers, users and key decision-makers involved in open...
View ArticleMarkus Neteler: Inofficial QGIS 2.8 RPMs for EPEL 7: Fedora 20, Fedora 21,...
Thanks to the work of Devrim Gündüz, Volker Fröhlich, Dave Johansen, Rex Dieter and other Fedora/EPEL packagers I had an easy going to prepare RPM packages of QGIS 2.8 Wien for Fedora 20 and 21, Centos...
View ArticleMarkus Neteler: GRASS GIS 6.4.5RC1 released
After months of development a first release candidate of GRASS GIS 6.4.5 is now available. This is a stability release of the GRASS GIS 6 line.Source code...
View ArticleMarkus Neteler: Fun with docker and GRASS GIS software
Sometimes, we developers get reports via mailing list that this & that would not work on whatever operating system. Now what? Should we be so kind and install the operating system in question in...
View ArticleFaunalia: Ti piace avere QGIS ben tradotto in italiano? Ora puoi contribuire
Avere tutto QGIS, incluso il programma, i manuali e il sito web, tradotti in italiano è una bella comodità; questo richiede uno sforzo notevole, per cui il tuo aiuto è essenziale. Fai una donazione...
View ArticleANDROID · GIS · WEB: Performance for mass updating features on layers
This post discusses how to improve the performance of pyqgis code which updates a lot of features by a factor of more than 10. See more ›
View ArticleIreland QGIS User Group Blog: CartoDB wins best “high-growth web...
CartoDB, the FOSS powered web mapping solution, was honoured at the 2014 European Web Entrepreneur of the Year Awards along with three other companies at Dublin’s Web Summit on November 7th. The...
View ArticleMarkus Neteler: Inofficial QGIS 2.8 RPMs for EPEL 7: Fedora 20, Fedora 21,...
Thanks to the work of Devrim Gündüz, Volker Fröhlich, Dave Johansen, Rex Dieter and other Fedora/EPEL packagers I had an easy going to prepare RPM packages of QGIS 2.8 Wien for Fedora 20 and 21, Centos...
View ArticleMarkus Neteler: GRASS GIS 6.4.5RC1 released
After months of development a first release candidate of GRASS GIS 6.4.5 is now available. This is a stability release of the GRASS GIS 6 line.Source code...
View ArticleMarkus Neteler: Fun with docker and GRASS GIS software
Sometimes, we developers get reports via mailing list that this & that would not work on whatever operating system. Now what? Should we be so kind and install the operating system in question in...
View Articleanitagraser.com: Trajectory animations with fadeout effect
Today’s post is a short tutorial for creating trajectory animations with a fadeout effect using QGIS Time Manager. This is the result we are aiming for:The animation shows the current movement in pink...
View ArticleIreland QGIS User Group Blog: ArcGIS REST API Connector Plugin for QGIS
Last year we described a command line method that adds ESRI REST layers in QGIS. Well, a team at the Geometa Lab in the University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil (HSR) Switzerland, have released a...
View ArticleQGIS NL Community: QGIS goodies
Just a short post in case you missed it. Since some time QGIS is coorporating with spreadshirt.com, so we can open ‘virtual shops’ all over the world to sell QGIS t-shirst, caps and mugs. So: check...
View ArticleNathans QGIS and GIS blog: Accessing composer item properties via custom...
So here is a neat trick. Lets say you wanted to access the scale of a composer map to make it part of a label. The scale bar can already be set to numeric to show the number value but what if it needs...
View Articleanitagraser.com: Time Manager workshop at #QGIS2015
Today was the final day of #QGIS2015 the first joint QGIS conference and developer meeting. I had the pleasure to meet Time Manager co-developer Karolina Alexiou aka carolinux in person and give a talk...
View Articleanitagraser.com: How to create illuminated contours, Tanaka-style
In the category “last night on Twitter”, a challenge I couldn’t resist: creating illuminated contours (aka Tanaka contours) in QGIS. Daniel P. Huffman started the thread by posting this great...
View ArticleANDROID · GIS · WEB: Tak Nødebo
After a week with QGIS members from all over the world we arrived back home and can say that once again, the QGIS developer meeting #13 was a great event. It started with the QGIS User Conference where...
View ArticleItOpen: QGIS Server: GetFeatureInfo with STYLE
There have been some requests in the past about custom CSS for html GetFeatureInfo responses from QGIS Server.Currently, the HTML response template is hardcoded and there is no way to customize it, the...
View ArticleItOpen: How to read a raster cell with Python QGIS and GDAL
QGIS and GDAL both have Python bindings, you can use both libraries to read a value from a raster cell, since QGIS uses GDAL libraries under the hood, we can expect to read the exact same value with...
View ArticleItOpen: Python SIP C++ bindings tutorial
Since QGIS uses QT libraries, SIP is the natural choice for creating the bindings.Here are some random notes about this journey into SIP and Python bindings, I hope you’ll find them useful! We will...
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