Nathans QGIS and GIS blog: Good news for QGIS MapInfo users
So some good news for QGIS users who also need/want to use MapInfo. QGIS via GDAL 2.0 can support MapInfo TAB file editing. In all older versions of GDAL there was only support for read and/or write...
View Articleanitagraser.com: QGIS Map Design is out now!
My latest book “QGIS Map Design”, co-authored with well-known cartography expert Gretchen Peterson and with a foreword by the founder of QGIS, Gary Sherman himself, is now available as e-book.In three...
View ArticleQGIS PSC blog: QGIS 2.14 ‘Essen’ is released!
QGIS is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows.We are very pleased to announce the release of QGIS 2.14 ‘Essen’. Essen was the host...
View ArticleLutra Consulting: Installing Third-party Python Modules in QGIS (Windows)
We’ve recently been developing a client plugin for forest management which relies on the Python SQLAlchemy module. When I installed the latest version of my colleague’s work I got a Python traceback...
View Articleanitagraser.com: Better digitizing with QGIS 2.14
Tracing buttonIf you are using QGIS for digitizing work, you have probably seen the 2.14 Changelog entry for Trace Digitizing. The main reason why this is a really cool new feature is that it speeds up...
View ArticleQGIS NL Community: New release of QGIS and book!
Last week not only QGIS 2.14.0 Essen was released but also a great book “QGIS Map Design” based on this new version of QGIS. A release of QGIS is special but this release concerns an announced LTR...
View ArticleLutra Consulting: Visualising Dam Breach in QGIS
Recently, I have come across the news about extent of damage and human loss, in case of the Mosul dam breach in Iraq.Having all the tools, some freely available data and a free weekend, I have decided...
View ArticleNathans QGIS and GIS blog: UIs are for the weak. Welcome to ASCII QGIS land
Have you ever thought “gee I wish I could have a ASCII QGIS map viewer for console use. I’m so over these fancy UIs with their fancy graphics, fonts, and icons”.No?Anybody?You are still reading? OK...
View ArticleItOpen: QGIS Server Simple Browser Plugin
Today I’m releasing the first version of QGIS Server Simple Browser Plugin, a simple Server plugin that generates a browsable table of contents of the project’s layers and a link to an OpenLayers map....
View ArticleQGIS NL Community: (Nederlands) Kadastrale percelen en het gfs bestand
Sorry, this entry is only available in the Dutch language
View Articleanitagraser.com: How to create a graduated renderer for polygon borders...
Today’s post was motivated by a recent question on the #gistribe Twitter chat:Is there a way in #qgis to have polygon outline colors changed the way the fill can be when you categorize data? #gistribe—...
View Articleanitagraser.com: Creating dynamic icon series
Today’s post was motivated by a question on GIS.StackExchange, which is looking for an automated way to symbolize the amenities available at a location using a series of icons, like this:Assuming the...
View ArticleSourcepole: Verarbeitung von Interlis-Daten mit QGIS
In der Schweiz werden amtliche Geodatenmodelle vorwiegend mit Interlis erstellt und häufig wird das Interlis-Transferformat für den offiziellen Datenaustausch vorgegeben. Das Interlis-Plugin für QGIS...
View ArticleANDROID · GIS · WEB: Prepare your plugins for QGIS 3
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…See...
View Articleanitagraser.com: How to fix the Windows config for .qgs default program
This is a short tip for you if you use QGIS on Windows and ended up with an error like this:Windows’ suggestion to reinstall probably won’t fix this issue. Instead, you want Windows to run qgis.bat...
View Articleanitagraser.com: Experiments in the 3rd dimension
The upcoming 2.14 release of QGIS features a new renderer. For the first time in QGIS history, it will be possible to render 2.5D objects directly in the map window. This feature is the result of a...
View Articleanitagraser.com: QGIS Map Design is out now!
My latest book “QGIS Map Design”, co-authored with well-known cartography expert Gretchen Peterson and with a foreword by the founder of QGIS, Gary Sherman himself, is now available as e-book.In three...
View Articleanitagraser.com: Better digitizing with QGIS 2.14
Tracing buttonIf you are using QGIS for digitizing work, you have probably seen the 2.14 Changelog entry for Trace Digitizing. The main reason why this is a really cool new feature is that it speeds up...
View Articleanitagraser.com: How to create a graduated renderer for polygon borders...
Today’s post was motivated by a recent question on the #gistribe Twitter chat:Is there a way in #qgis to have polygon outline colors changed the way the fill can be when you categorize data? #gistribe—...
View Articleanitagraser.com: Creating dynamic icon series
Today’s post was motivated by a question on GIS.StackExchange, which is looking for an automated way to symbolize the amenities available at a location using a series of icons, like this:Assuming the...
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