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QGIS 3D enhancements: crowdfunding results (part 3)

Discover the final QGIS 3D crowdfunding results, featuring instanced 3D point rendering, anti-aliasing, adaptive tiling, and enhanced scene lighting.
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QGISデータをWebで探しやすく〜Kumoyの属性テーブル機能〜 - QGIS LAB by MIERUNE

はじめにQGISでは、属性テーブルを使って地物の属性情報を一覧しながら検索・絞り込みできるため、目的のデータを効率よく確認できます。Kumoyのマップでも、同じように属性テーブル機能で属性情報を一覧で確認し、件数が多いデータの中から目的の地物を探したり、特定の条件に合う地物だけを絞り込んだりできます。QGISと同じ操作感でデータを確認できるため、Webマップ上でのデータ確認がよりスムーズになります...
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QGISデータをWeb上で編集が可能に〜Kumoyの地物編集機能〜 - QGIS LAB by MIERUNE

はじめにQGISで作成した地図やデータをチームで共有していると、現場で分かった内容をメモとして残したり、調査地点を追加したり、既存地物の位置や属性を少し修正したりする場面があります。こうした小さな更新のたびに修正依頼やファイルの受け渡しが発生していては、確認から反映までに手間がかかります。Kumoyの地物編集機能を使うと、Kumoyに保存したベクターデータをWebで共有しながら、属性更新や地物の削...
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[Case Study] Mapping 8,000 km of Tuscan waterways: How GAIA digitised its water network

Discover how GAIA digitised almost 8,000 km of Tuscan water networks and simplified field-to-office coordination using Mergin Maps.
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Spotkanie Użytkowników Polska 2026: An Incredible Gathering for the GIS Community

Lutra Consulting recently attended the Spotkanie Użytkowników Polska 2026 in Łódź, Poland, supporting the event as a gold sponsor. The conference, which saw attendance grow to 500 participants, featured insightful presentations and a successful workshop by team member Radek. Highlights included showcasing Mergin Maps’ real-time data synchronization at the company stand and enjoying the outdoor social event.
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QGIS 4.2新機能〜次期LTR版のベースとなるバージョン〜 - QGIS LAB by MIERUNE

はじめに2026年7月3日に、QGIS 4.2「Belém do Pará」がリリースされました。Belémはブラジル北部に位置する港湾都市で、QGISにとっては2024年に世界的なFOSS4Gカンファレンスが開催された場所としても知られています。前回のバージョンであるQGIS 4.0は2026年3月にリリースされ、4.0シリーズの最初のバージョンとなりました。今回の4.2では、安定性を高めるため...
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Belém, Salzburg, and onwards

It’s been a couple of busy weeks, with the QGIS 4.2 release and meetings and conferences all over the place before a few, hopefully quieter, weeks of summer break.

QGIS

First, the Austrian QGIS user group met online on 25 June. The topic was webmapping, with multiple users presenting their webmapping solutions, ranging from Lizmap to QGIS Cloud.

A few days later, QGIS 4.2 was released on 3 July 2026. This release is named Belém do Pará, after the Brazilian city that hosted both FOSS4G and a QGIS user meeting back in 2024. MundoGEO has the details on the naming, if you’re curious about the backstory. Worth noting: 4.2 “Belém do Pará” will be the next LTR, so if you’re using the long-term release, this is the one to watch for.

On a side note, while designing the Belém splash screen, it was interesting to see that historic maps of Belém don’t have north at the top. Instead, they’re rotated with north pointing either left or right. A nice little reminder that “north-up” is a convention, not a law of cartography.

Historic map of Belém. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Planta_da_Cidade_de_Belem_do_Gram_Par%C3%A1_(ca._1773).jpg

AGIT 2026

This week, I made my way to Salzburg for AGIT, my favorite Austrian GIS conference.

On the first day, I took part in the AGEO Podium discussion, together with Andreas Hocevar (the father of OpenLayers), on the OGC API standards, since many users aren’t even aware of these new standards yet.

Photo by Michael Szell. Source: https://datasci.social/@mszll/116889779516757509

Thursday was talk day for me: I presented MobiML, a new Python library designed to streamline the development of machine learning workflows for trajectory data. I hope this library can help make Mobility Data Science more approachable and results more reproducible.

Right after my talk, Michael Szell presented “Assessing the Danish Bicycle Node Network”, building the data and algorithm foundation for active mobility planning and research. If you want to dig into the tools behind it, check out bikenetwork.dk and bikenetkit.org.

Michael is giving a full talk on this on Tuesday at the Complexity Science Hub in Vienna, if you want to hear more.

FOSS4G Europe, from the sidelines

Unfortunately, I missed FOSS4G Europe in Timișoara the week before, so I followed along via the #foss4ge2026 hashtag instead. Iván Sánchez’s talk on the BOSCO ruling, arguing that all government software must be explainable, is just one example of the talks I would have loved to see in person. There was also the already traditional QGIS Feature Frenzy by Kurt Menke and a QGIS hydrological analysis workshop by Hans who also has a full FOSS4G Europe 2026 summary worth reading.

Also relevant: the Birds of a Feather session on AI in OSGeo projects has spilled over onto the OSGeo discuss mailing list. Definitely a thread worth following or getting involved in if you maintain or contribute to open source geospatial projects.

What’s next

Besides MobiML, work also continues on the MovingPandas front. There are a few open pull requests I want to work through ahead of the next release.

After the summer break, the conference season picks back up quickly: FOSS4G 2026 in Hiroshima (30 August–5 September), Spatial Data Science across Languages (SDSL) 2026 in Jena (16–17/18 September), and the QGIS conference 2026 in Switzerland (5–6 October), where I’ll be speaking about AI in the QGIS ecosystem.

For a more complete picture of what is going on in geospatial worldwide, check out (and don’t forget to bookmark) Jakub‘s comprehensive list of geospatial conferences at github.com/Nowosad/geospatial-conferences.

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Introducing the QCity Plugin

Urban Development Modelling in QGIS

Qcity

Introducing QCity, a new plugin that brings advanced urban development modeling directly into QGIS. Developed in collaboration with the City of Canning (Perth, Western Australia), QCity enables urban planners to model project areas using predefined frameworks, providing visual 2D/3D insights and detailed statistical reports.

The plugin workflow begins in the “Project Setup” tab, where users either define a new Project Area boundary and input dwelling and parking (both car and bike) parameters, or load a previously saved site or QCity package:

Next, “Development Sites” are created within each Project Area. Development Sites options include:

  • Setting the site’s status: constructed, proposed or modelled
  • Automatic calculation of the site’s floor space, car and bike parking (based on the specifications defined for the parent project area)
  • Setting the parameters for each Development Site

Each Development Site can contain multiple Building Levels, which define the building floorplan and floors. Building Levels contain parameters to determine the composition of each level, such as:

  • Usage: percent use for commercial, office and residential purposes
  • Residential: percent composition of 1-4+ bedroom dwellings
  • The building level height and height above ground
  • Based on the entered parameters, the area of Unallocated Residential Floorspace for each building level is automatically calculated

Finally, statistics are calculated for an entire Project Area, such as the total amount of commercial, office and residential floorspace, number of dwellings, and car and bicycle parking availability.

To see the workflow in action, watch the video below where a new project is created with development sites and building levels.

This is the first release of QCity, and accordingly it is currently available as an experimental plugin in the QGIS plugin repository. This initial QCity version is designed for use in Australia only, however future development will enable its use in other parts of the world. On the QCity code repoistory you can see some of the additional capabilities we are thinking of adding. QCity requires QGIS 4.0 or later.

For an in depth overview of the creation of QCity and a demonstration of its capabilities, please join us for the QGIS Australia July webinar where Gabriel Diosan, Senior Strategic Planning Spatial Analyst from the City of Canning will present Urban Development Modelling in QGIS using QCity:

For more information:

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ブラウザパネルの活用〜データ管理と空間ブックマーク〜 - QGIS LAB by MIERUNE

はじめにブラウザパネルは、背景地図として利用されるXYZ Tiles接続のために利用される方が多いと思いますが、それ以外にも便利な使い方がたくさんあります。この記事では、QGISのブラウザパネルを効果的に活用し、普段のQGIS操作を手軽にする方法をご紹介します。なお、XYZタイル接続の方法についてはこちらの記事での解説はしません。下記の記事で詳しく説明しているので、そちらをご覧ください。ブラウザパ...
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QGIS 4.2: DB Manager lascia il core (ma non subito)

QGIS 4.2: DB Manager lascia il core (ma non subito)

Introduzione

Chi usa QGIS da anni conosce bene DB Manager: il pannello che permette di sfogliare, interrogare e gestire i database supportati (PostGIS, SpatiaLite, GeoPackage...) direttamente dall'interfaccia, senza uscire dal programma. Con QGIS 4.2 questo strumento smette di essere parte del core e diventa un plugin di terze parti, con un percorso di transizione più complicato del previsto.

Ne ho parlato in una discussione aperta su OSGeo Discourse: questo post riprende e approfondisce quel filo, incrociando la proposta ufficiale, le pull request e la mailing list degli sviluppatori.

!!! Abstract "In breve" DB Manager viene "degradato" a plugin community per il QEP-426: troppa duplicazione con il Browser Panel, poca copertura di test, manutenzione onerosa. La rimozione completa dal core (PR #66545) è ancora aperta e discussa; per la 4.2 è stato invece mergiato un approccio più graduale (PR #66613): un avviso di deprecazione all'avvio con un pulsante per installare la versione community. Il plugin, però, è al momento bloccato nel repository ufficiale da oltre 100 warning di sicurezza.

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