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Announcing the release of 2.8.6 and 2.12.3

January 19, 2016 by Anita Graser in QGIS Release Announcements

The latest bug fix releases 2.8.6 and 2.12.3 have been released according to our release road map. For a list of fixed issues see the commits to 2.8 and commits to 2.12, respectively.

Help us to plan for QGIS 3.0

January 17, 2016 by Tim Sutton in Uncategorized

Many of you out there may be wondering ‘when are we going to release QGIS 3.0?’. Last year (2015) we started investigating when and how we would release QGIS 3.0. We promised (see Anita Graser’s post about this) that we would convey clearly to our users and developers our plans…

Crowd funding project for reading CAD documents in QGIS

December 8, 2015 by Andreas Neumann in Uncategorized

Local governments on the municipality or provincial level often have to deal with DXF/DWG/DGN documents delivered from architects, urban planners or engineering companies. As an example, cadastral or utility offices or companies often have to import CAD documents to either check deliveries about…

A word of thanks to the hosts of the 14th QGIS Hackfest in Gran Canaria

November 15, 2015 by Tim Sutton in QGIS Hackfest

Last weekend (November 5th – November 8th, 2015) was a special occasion for the QGIS Project – we convened the 14th our ‘hackfest’ meeting! QGIS hackfests are events where an organiser provides a space for collaboration and members of the community converge and self-organise to…

QGIS Podcast Episode 12

November 15, 2015 by Anita Graser in QGIS Podcast

In the 12th episode of the QGIS podcast, Tim Sutton and Victor Olaya talk about what they have been doing during the latest QGIS developer meeting, present the latest QGIS enhancement proposals (QEPs), chat about the Processing framework and much more! Listen to or download it at…

Your donations/sponsorships help to maintain and improve the quality of QGIS

November 9, 2015 by Andreas Neumann in Uncategorized

The QGIS project is growing in size, number of contributors/contributions and code complexity. This introduces challenges for the project, especially for maintaining quality. Maintaining and improving quality is one of the main concerns of the QGIS.ORG board and some core developers. Past and…

Introducing the QGIS Board

November 3, 2015 by Tim Sutton in Uncategorized

Transition The QGIS PSC (Project Steering Committee) is in transition to becoming a Board. We are registering the project as a Swiss ‘Verein‘ (Association) which will be known as QGIS.ORG and will function as a not-for-profit company, serving the interests of the QGIS project. The…

QGIS Crowdfunding project: 2.5D Rendering of buildings/polygons

November 2, 2015 by Andreas Neumann in Uncategorized

QGIS already supports various different renderers, such as categorized, rule-based, point-displacement, heatmap, etc. This allows for advanced cartographic representations. In addition, there are plugins available, such as “qgis2threejs” or “QGIS Globe”, which allow to view…

QGIS Podcast Episode 11

October 30, 2015 by Tim Sutton in QGIS Podcast

The Official QGIS Podcast is back! In this episode we discuss the QGIS User Survey, the release of QGIS 2.12, highlight an interesting QGIS based study and much more! Download the mp3 directly here. Show notes are available: QGIS Podcast Episode 11 Show notes. You can subscribe to the podcast using…

Announcing the release of QGIS 2.12

October 30, 2015 by Tim Sutton in QGIS Release Announcements

This week we have more great news from Jürgen Fischer, our release manager: “QGIS is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows. We are very pleased to announce the release of QGIS 2.12 ‘Lyon’. Lyon was the host city to…