QGIS on the Road: Episode I – The GIS Awakens

This summer we went on tour with what turned out to be an extremely popular event: QGIS on the Road Telling the most remarkable story of Maya the beekeeper building her honey business and fighting against seemingly hopeless challenges with the help of QGIS functionality you probably never heard of. Now, as the nights get longer and the bees disappear into their winter cluster, we don’t want to withhold it from you and finally publish Read more…

QField 1.2 released

After an intensive testing period, we are proud to announce the release of QField 1.2 As usual, get it on play store or download it from GitHub. QField Crowdfunding Campaign Before digging into all the new goodness that you will find in QField 1.2, let’s get some big “Thanks” out. What QField currently is was mostly possible thanks to customer projects of which the outcome could be mutualized. Thanks a lot to all of you Read more…

QField Day 2019

12 November 2019 13:40 in Bern, free event QField is a highly configurable mobile data collection app. It integrates perfectly with the leading open source solution QGIS. It’s our pleasure to invite you to the first ever QField day in Bern. During this day, you will have the possibility to see how QField is used in several highly interesting real world use cases. The talks by leading QField users span from municipality management over biodiversity Read more…

Back from FOSS4G 2019

It’s been almost 2 weeks since FOSS4G 2019 has crossed the finishing line. And it was a truly inspiring event with many participants from all cultures and interests. We do not need to repeat that the local organizers did a great job. That we had an awesome night in a truly impressive parliament building. That there have been so many wonderful people with brilliant ideas.And also that there were too many good presentations in parallel Read more…

Silver Sponsoring FOSS4G 2019

At OPENGIS.ch we live and love open source.That is why we are extremely excited to announce that we are supporting FOSS4G 2019, 26 to 30 August in Bucharest. By supporting FOSS4G 2019 we hope to help the conference be an even bigger success and help more people discovering all the opensource geo-awesomeness out there! Come see us at our booth for plenty of news regarding QField and our brand new QGIS sustainability initiative that comes Read more…

QGIS on the road

All videos can be viewed online. We are extremely pleased to announce the QGIS on the road tour with three free events this spring all over Switzerland. Limited places available so act fast reserve your place for the location you want. Bern 24.09.19 13:40 (event held in German) Lucerne 22.10.19 13:40 (event held in German) Bellinzona 14.05.19 14:10 (event held in Italian) Zürich 21.05.19 13:40 (event held in German) Lausanne 28.05.19 13:40 (event held in Read more…

QGIS on the road live

We are extremely pleased to announce the QGIS on the road tour with three free events this spring all over Switzerland. Limited places available so act fast reserve your place for the location you want. Bern 24.09.19 13:40 (event held in German) Lucerne 22.10.19 13:40 (event held in German) Bellinzona 14.05.19 14:10 (event held in Italian) Zürich 21.05.19 13:40 (event held in German) Lausanne 28.05.19 13:40 (event held in French) Telling the story of Ms Read more…

Win a QField jump-start package, use #MyQField

Do you want to win a QField jump-start package worth 550€? We are launching the #MyQField challenge. Follow us on Twitter and show us how you use @QFieldForQGIS by tagging your tweets with #MyQField and #dataisoutside. The tweet with most likes and retweets by 24.4.19 wins the training! Rules You need to follow @OPENGISch and @QFieldForQGIS Likes count single, retweet count double You can participate multiple times We will count on 24.4.19 at 20:00 CET Read more…

Plugin for tracking QGIS project files in git

We often have QGIS project files that are part of a customer project. To be able to manage versions of these project files or have multiple people working on it, they are managed inside a git repository. This is however not easy, because with every save of a project file, thousands of lines change, even if the real change is minimal. Like a change of a layer name. This blows up the git repository for Read more…