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Results of the user questionnaire from Sep’19

October 28, 2019 by Anita Graser in User question of the month

Last month’s user question focused on QGIS documentation. More specifically, we asked how you learn how to use QGIS. And many of you answered our call. Indeed we collected 824 responses over a period of two weeks: The answers to the first question show that the top three first sources of…

User question of the Month – Sep’19

September 28, 2019 by Anita Graser in User question of the month

After the summer break, we’re back with a new user question. This month, we want to focus on documentation. Specifically, we’d like to know how you learn how to use QGIS. The survey is available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Ukrainian, and Indonesian. If you want to help us…

Introducing new QGIS macOS packages

July 29, 2019 by Tim Sutton in Uncategorized

We now have signed packages for macOS. You can find these packages published on the official QGIS download page at http://download.qgis.org. Rationale In addition to being a very powerful and user-friendly open source GIS application, QGIS can be installed on different operating systems: MS Windows,…

QGIS 3.8 Zanzibar is released!

July 23, 2019 by Anita Graser in QGIS Release Announcements

We are pleased to announce the release of QGIS 3.8 ‘Zanzibar’! Zanzibar was the location of our developer meeting before the international FOSS4G 2018 conference in Dar Es Salaam. Installers for all supported operating systems are already out. QGIS 3.8 comes with tons of new…

QGIS Grant Programme 2019 Results

June 30, 2019 by Anita Graser in QGIS Grant Programme

We are extremely pleased to announce the winning proposals for our 2019 QGIS.ORG grant programme. Funding for the programme was sourced by you, our project donors and sponsors! Note: For more context surrounding our grant programme, please see: QGIS Grants #4: Call for Grant Proposals 2019. The…

QGIS Grants #4: Call for Grant Proposals 2019

May 6, 2019 by Anita Graser in QGIS Grant Programme

Dear QGIS Community Our first three rounds of Grant Proposals were a great success. We are very pleased to announce the fourth round of grants is now available to QGIS contributors. Based on community feedback, this year, we will not accept proposals for the development of new features. Instead…

Videos from A Coruña

April 22, 2019 by Anita Graser in Uncategorized

We’re glad to announce that the recorded presentations from our user conference in A Coruña are now available online on the TIB AV-Portal. Enjoy and thanks to all participants, sponsors and organizers!

QGIS Server 3.4.6 certified for WMS 1.3

April 8, 2019 by Régis Haubourg in QGIS Server

We are very happy to announce that QGIS 3.4.6 LTR is now OGC certified as a reference implementation : The OGC certification program gives a third party validation that the a web service is compliant with the standard. The certification process requires manual work, so we will only certify on…

Crowdfunding initiatives in spring 2019

April 2, 2019 by Andreas Neumann in Uncategorized

Currently there are a number of ongoing crowdfunding initiatives for improvements in QGIS that need your support: 1. Diagrams in print layouts, atlas and reports: the popular data plotly plugin for interactive, exploratory charts and diagrams should be enhanced to support embedding in print layouts,…

QGIS 3.6 Noosa is released!

March 24, 2019 by Anita Graser in QGIS Release Announcements

We are pleased to announce the release of QGIS 3.6 ‘Noosa’! Noosa was the location of a local Australian developer meeting in autumn 2017. Installers for all supported operating systems are already out. QGIS 3.6 comes with tons of new features, as you can see in our visual changelog. We…