Performance for mass updating features
This post discusses how to improve the performance of pyqgis code which updates a lot of features by a factor of more than 10.
InaSAFE wins Open Source ‘Rookie of the Year’ award
We have worked incredibly hard over the last year to make the InaSAFE plugin for QGIS, with a team of dedicated developers from AUSAID, WorldBank, Linfiniti, opengis.ch and a number of other developers and contributors, so it is really great to receive this acknowledgement! Here is looking to another great year of working on InaSAFE for 2013!
QGIS Globe works again
Just stumbled upon this post by Pirmin, and he says Globe has been fixed. Cool, thanks Pirmin and Regione Umbria for sponsoring his work! And here a demo of what the guys at Oslandia do with it: PostGIS 3D demo from Oslandia on Vimeo.
InaSAFE 1.0 Launched
End October after a heavy development sprint, the InaSAFE team (which consists of developers from around the world, funded by AUSAID and The World Bank / GFDRR) released inaSAFE 1.0 at the AMCDRR, a high level conference for disaster risk reduction in Asia. During the same event, inaSAFE was even demonstrated to the President of Indonesia.
QGIS @ 4200m
One of the nice things of being freelance it that you can work on Sundays when the weather is horrible and get out on Tuesdays when it rocks 😉 . So Tuesday I decided to go test QGIS at high altitude and went to the Breithorn and the Pollux with my best friend for Read more…
QGIS on Android using external GPS receivers
Thanks to FORNAT AG which sponsored me I could spend some time looking for solutions to make QGIS on android working with an external GPS receiver that sends NMEA strings. It all boils down to the following: via bluetooth works via USB not yet (as soon as I get more Read more…
QGIS on Android Phone
At FOSSGIS I was asked to try to install qgis on a very small android phone, I think it was a 3.2″ screen. the install went smoothly after making some space but then the problems came because of the small screen. Eventually I thought about setting a smaller font size Read more…
QGIS Multiview and globe screenshots
This screenshots have been created using the QGIS with the following plugins: Multitemporal and multivariate data visualisation (https://hub.qgis.org/projects/multiview) Scttergram identify (https://hub.qgis.org/projects/scattergramdentify Globe Plugin
QGIS for android alpha 7
7, my luck number… So here you are, the latest and greatest QGIS for Android. This release includes the super new pinch zoom tool, should have no blocking dialogs anymore (i fixed the attribute table) and the help->about shows now from which commit the package has been created. The packages Read more…
QGIS for android gets Pinch zooming
Well, it is a super winter and there is a lot of snow here in Switzerland and all this makes me super happy which means that my productivity increases… here you are, the last and greatest improvement for QGIS on android: a fancy zooming map tool like you know from Read more…