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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

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

You gave us feedback – we give you QField 1.0 RC3

We are really happy to announce the release a new great milestone in QField’s history, QField 1.0 Release Candidate 3! (Yes, you might have got a glimpse of the broken RC2 if you where very attentive) Thanks to the great feedback we received since releasing RC1 we were able to fix plenty of issues and add some more goodies. We would like to invite everybody to install this Release Candidate and help us test it Read more…

By Marco Bernasocchi, ago

Visualize Postgres JSON data in QML widgets

As promised some time ago in “The new QML widgets in QGIS – When widgets get unbridled” we still owe you some fancy unicorns, but first let’s have a look at another nice feature that has been introduced in QGIS 3.4 LTR,  the reading of PostgreSQL JSON and JSONB types. With JSON you have a lot of possibilities for storing unstructured data. In our case, it’s mainly interesting when the data are stored as an array Read more…

By Dave Signer, ago

The new QML widgets in QGIS – When widgets get unbridled

Individuality is the definition of freedom. And freedom is the fundamental requirement of man’s mind. QGIS possibly cannot give you all the freedom you require in life. But at least a lot of freedom in how you manage your work. QGIS 3.4.0 LTR was released last week and it comes loaded with features supporting big freedom in the configuration of your projects.  Let’s focus on the QML Widget. QML is the smart casual look of Read more…

By Dave Signer, ago

QGIS speaks a lot of languages

QGIS is a real cosmopolitan. Born in Alaska sixteen years ago, it has spread all over the world since. Thanks to its open source mentality, it finds not only in economically strong countries big usergroups. No question, that beside all the developers, there is a bunch of brave translators giving everything to make and keep QGIS multilingual. It’s translated in over forty languages – even to Mandarin Chinese and Esperanto. Not only the application, but also Read more…

By Dave Signer, ago