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QField Tag 2019

12 . November 2019 13:40 in Bern, Teilnahme kostenlos, Anmeldung erforderlich QField ist eine hochkonfigurierbare App zur Datenerfassung im Feld. Sie ist perfekt integriert in das führende Open Source GIS QGIS. Es ist uns eine Freude, Sie zum ersten QField Tag in Bern einladen zu können. An diesem Tag werden Sie die Möglichkeit haben, zu entdecken, wie QField in verschiedenen hochinteressanten Anwendungsfällen aus verschiedenen Domänen eingesetzt wird. Die Präsentationen von führenden QField Anwendern reichen von Read more…

By Matthias Kuhn, ago

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…

By Matthias Kuhn, ago

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…

By Marco Bernasocchi, ago

QGIS on the road

Wir freuen, dieses Jahr die QGIS on the road Tour mit fünf Gratisanlässen in der ganzen Schweiz durchführen zu können. Bern 24.09.19 13:40 (Deutsch) Luzern 22.10.19 13:40 (Deutsch) Bellinzona 14.05.19 14:10 (Italienisch) Zürich 21.05.19 13:40 (Deutsch) Lausanne 28.05.19 13:40 (Französisch) Durch die Geschichte von Maya Mielina, einer pensionierten GIS Spezialistin und passionierten Bienenzüchterin, präsentieren Ihnen die Experten von OPENGIS.ch QGIS Funktionalitäten, von denen Sie teilweise wahrscheinlich nicht einmal geahnt haben, dass sie in QGIS existieren, Read more…

By Matthias Kuhn, ago

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…

By Marco Bernasocchi, ago

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…

By Marco Bernasocchi, ago

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…

By Matthias Kuhn, ago

QField 1.0 is here

Let’s get straight to the point It’s official, QField for QGIS 1.0 is out! Get it while it’s hot on the Playstore (qfield.org/get) or on GitHub We are incredibly pleased and proud of just having released such a jewel and are convinced that, thanks to all its features and conscious design choices, QField will make your field digitizing work much more efficient and pleasant. Packed with loads of useful features like online and offline features digitizing, Read more…

By Marco Bernasocchi, ago

GeoBeer #26 in Bern hosted by OPENGIS.ch

Last Thursday around half past six in the evening. Striking many Geo-scientist found the way to the Spitalgasse in Bern. The reason was the 26th GeoBeer event taking place at ImpactHub.GeoBeer is a quarterly meeting of people interested in geography, GIS, cartography and the latest technologies. It’s hosted every time by someone else. This time by us, OPENGIS.ch. Right after the arriving, the organizers of GeoBeer Switzerland showed us some funny statistics about the GeoBeer Read more…

By Dave Signer, ago

QField RC5 – Last call for testing

We are really happy to announce the fifth and (hopefully) last 1.0 release candidate in QField’s history! This means that QField 1.0 is closer than ever. Get it while it’s hot on the Playstore (https://qfield.org/get) or on GitHub Thanks to all the feedback by the fantastic community we were able to fix plenty of bugs, address performance issues and even add some super cool new features. Among the new features, the most important is the Read more…

By Marco Bernasocchi, ago