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QGIS Pi Mapping Contest Results

June 13, 2020 by Anita Graser in Uncategorized

As you may have noticed, the next release version will be 3.14 and therefore, we will call it ‘Pi’. Usually our versions are named for community meeting locations and the splash screen shows a map related to this location. For 3.14 we were looking for creative maps that capture the…

QGIS Server and OGC API Features

May 13, 2020 by Andreas Neumann in QGIS Server

Based on text and information from Paul Blottiere and Alessandro Pasotti (both QCooperative) QGIS Server implements a number of OGC services, such as WMS, WFS, WCS or WMTS and extends these services where useful. Thanks to the efforts of a number of QGIS Server developers and companies, QGIS 3.10…

Greetings from your new QGIS project Chair

May 13, 2020 by Marco Bernasocchi in QGIS Board

Dear community, First of all, I would like to thank Paolo for his work during the last two years as Chair and for the years before that, and years to come in his role as PSC member. I’m looking forward to keeping up the good work with him. Secondly, I would like to thank all the community voting…

QGIS Annual General Meeting – 2020

May 6, 2020 by Paolo Cavallini in QGIS Board Uncategorized

Dear QGIS Community We recently held our 2020 QGIS Annual General Meeting. The minutes of this meeting are available for all to view. I would like to welcome our new QGIS Board Chair: Marco Bernasocchi and our new QGIS Board Vice-Chair and QGIS PSC Member, Alessandro Pasotti. In case you are not…

QGIS Grants #5: Call for Grant Proposals 2020

April 26, 2020 by Anita Graser in QGIS Grant Programme

Dear QGIS Community, Our previous rounds of grant proposals have always been a great success (2019, 2018, 2017, 2016). We are very pleased to announce that this year’s round of grants is now available. The call is open to anybody who wants to make a funded contribution to QGIS, subject to the call…

PyQGIS Cookbook revision 2020

April 19, 2020 by Anita Graser in QGIS Documentation

We are happy to announce that the PyQGIS Cookbook has received a complete overhaul and is now better than ever. The PyQGIS Cookbook is a great source of information, not only for PyQGIS beginners or plugin developers, but also for C++ developers: it contains a lot of information about the internals…

LTR usage survey

April 2, 2020 by Anita Graser in User question of the month

Back in 2018, we asked QGIS users how often they use QGIS and how often they upgrade. Today, we want to find out more about how different user groups and organisations use QGIS and particularly the LTR. You may be aware of ongoing discussions concerning potentially extending the LTR period and other…

QGIS Events Cancellation

March 30, 2020 by Tim Sutton in QGIS User Conference Uncategorized

Dear QGIS Community: Due to the uncertainty caused by rapidly unfolding global events related to the COVID-19 virus, we have decided to cancel all in-person QGIS events until further notice. This includes the 25th QGIS Contributor meeting and User Conference that was scheduled to be held this year…

QGIS 3.12 București is released!

February 26, 2020 by Anita Graser in QGIS Release Announcements

We are pleased to announce the release of QGIS 3.12 ‘București’! Bucharest was the location of our developer meeting at FOSS4G 2019. Installers for all supported operating systems are already out. QGIS 3.12 comes with tons of new features, as you can see in our visual changelog. We would…

Reports from the winning grant proposals 2019

February 23, 2020 by Anita Graser in QGIS Grant Programme

With the QGIS Grant Programme 2019, we were able to support six proposals that were aimed to improve the QGIS project, including software, infrastructure, and documentation. These are the reports on the work that has been done within the individual projects: Profile and optimise the QGIS vector…