anitagraser.com: Straight and curved arrows with QGIS
After my previous posts on flow maps, many people asked me how to create the curved arrows that you see in these maps.The following quick screencast shows how it is done. Note how additional nodes are...
View ArticleQGIS PSC blog: Logo Evolution – Call to User Groups
With QGIS 3.0 moving closer, it is also time to get the new QGIS logo out there.QGIS logo evolutionWe are therefore asking all our user groups to join the project redesign efforts. Please have a look...
View ArticleQGIS PSC blog: QGIS Grant Programme #2 Results
We are extremely pleased to announce the winning proposals for our 2017 QGIS.ORG grant programme. Funding for the programme was sourced by you, our project donors and sponsors! Note: For more context...
View ArticleQGIS PSC blog: Call for presentations and workshop proposals: QGIS Conference...
NOTE: Deadline for proposals is May 15 2017We are going back to Nødebo! Each year we combine one of our QGIS Developer Meetings with a User Conference. The User Conference is a great opportunity for...
View Articleanitagraser.com: Report from the Essen dev meeting
From 28th April to 1st May the QGIS project organized another successful developer meeting at the Linuxhotel in Essen, Germany. Here is a quick summary of the key topics I’ve been working on during...
View ArticleANDROID · GIS · WEB: QGIS Expressions Engine: Performance boost
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...
View ArticleANDROID · GIS · WEB: Best practices for writing Python QGIS Expression Functions
Recently there have been some questions and discussions about python based expression functions and how parameters like [crayon-59147f09b8ec6921453890-i/] need to be used. So I thought I’d quickly...
View ArticleMarkus Neteler: GRASS GIS 7.2.1 released
We are pleased to announce the update release GRASS GIS 7.2.1 What’s new in a nutshellAfter four months of development the new update release GRASS GIS 7.2.1 is available. It provides more than 150...
View ArticleNirvns QGIS blogs: More QGIS 3.0 Improvements: Saving Map Canvas as Image & PDF
(This blog post might as well have been titled “QGIS ❤ Wallpapers”)Over the span of a week, QGIS received a set of improvements which greatly improved the canvas’ save as image function, as well as a...
View Articlenyalldawson.net: The Inaugural QGIS Australia Hackfest – Noosa 2017
Last week we kicked off the first (of hopefully many) Australian QGIS hackfests Developers Meetings. It was attended by 3 of the core QGIS development team: Nathan Woodrow, Martin Dobias and myself...
View Articleanitagraser.com: Movement data in GIS #6: updates from AGILE2017
AGILE 2017 is the annual international conference on Geographic Information Science of the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe (AGILE) which was established in 1998 to promote...
View ArticleNorth Road: QGIS Composer Rewrite and Layout Engine crowdfund – half way there!
If you’ve been following our recent blog posts, you’ll be aware that we are currently running a crowd funding campaign to extend the capabilities of QGIS’ print composer. You can read full details...
View ArticleItOpen: Essen 2017 QGIS Hackfest
Another great QGIS hackfest is gone, and it’s time for a quick report.The location has been the Linux Hotel, one of the best places where open source developers could meet, friendly, geek-oriented and...
View ArticleQGIS PSC blog: 2017 QGIS Governance Update
QGIS Developers and Community Members working on QGIS at our recent meet up in Essen, German,Dear Voting members (and interested QGIS community members out there)This is an open letter that was...
View Articleanitagraser.com: Upcoming QGIS3 features – exploring the current developer...
There are tons of things going on under the hood of QGIS for the move from version 2 to version 3. Besides other things, we’ll have access to new versions of Qt and Python. If you are using a HiDPI...
View ArticleNorth Road: QGIS Layout and Reporting Engine Campaign – a success!
Thanks to the tireless efforts and incredible generosity of the QGIS user community, our crowdfunded QGIS Layout and Reporting Engine campaign was a tremendous success! We’ve reached the funding goal...
View Articleanitagraser.com: Aggregate all the things! (QGIS expression edition)
In the past, aggregating field values was reserved to databases, virtual layers, or dedicated plugins, but since QGIS 2.16, there is a way to compute aggregates directly in QGIS expressions. This means...
View ArticleQGIS NL Community: Gereference a medal
Yesterday I ran the half marathon of Zwolle wearing a hat with the previous QGIS logo. My time was not so special (2:08:47) but the medal I earned was. It shows a simple map of the city of Zwolle. You...
View Articleanitagraser.com: Even more aggregations: QGIS point cluster renderer
In the previous post, I demonstrated the aggregation support in QGIS expressions. Another popular request is to aggregate or cluster point features that are close to each other. If you have been...
View ArticleQGIS PSC blog: 3rd QGIS User Conference
This year, we are looking forward to the 3rd installment of our annual QGIS conference and it will be the biggest one yet!The QGIS community, developers and users are meeting from August 2–11, 2017 in...
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