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Reflecting on FOSS4G Europe in Timisoara

Highlights from FOSS4G Europe in Timisoara! Read our recap on key sessions covering tech sovereignty, PROJ transformations, and open-source community connections.
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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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Kumoy Now Supports Raster Data in Web Maps - QGIS LAB by MIERUNE

Introduction Kumoy is a service that lets you upload maps and data created in QGIS to the cloud and view and share them as web maps. Until now, Kumoy supported creating and sharing maps from vector da...
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[Blog] Connect external GPS receivers via network (TCP/UDP)

Capture high-precision field data directly in Mergin Maps. Our new Network position provider feature enables seamless TCP/UDP connections to external GPS receivers.
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New Open Basemaps for Austria

For many years now, we have been enjoying the basemap.at service with it’s various basemap options (color, gray, with/without labels, …) in WMTS and vector tiles.

Basemap.at Standard WMTS in QGIS (instructions here)

For a few weeks now, there is an additional service by BEV: Their cartographic models “Kartographischen Modelle (KM)” are now available as raster (KM-R) in COG-TIFF format.

Adding the COG-TIFF URI

The downloads come with proper instructions:

BEV KM-R in QGIS

Some vector (KM-V) in GeoPackages with QGIS projects providing the layer style and label settings are already available for the Stichtag 30.01.2026 downloads. And they look awesome:

BEV KM-V project defaults
And without labels

KM-V downloads are provided in tiles, so it’s not quite as simple as grabbing the COG URI:

It’s worth noting though, that the KM-V GeoPackages are still a work in progress and not all tiles are available for download yet.

I’ll keep an eye on the downloads to see when the rest of the tiles become available.

Until then, I leave you with a couple of examples of the Großglockner (highest mountain in Austria) area in basemap.at and KM-R side-by-side:

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Web Attribute Tables for QGIS Data in Kumoy - QGIS LAB by MIERUNE

Introduction In QGIS, the attribute table lets you browse the attribute information of features in a list and search and filter it, so you can check the data you need efficiently. Kumoy maps offer the...
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Detect Building Footprints in QGIS: 3 Methods

Draw a zone, name the object, run it: you get a polygon layer in minutes. Open data, AI detection and hand-digitizing compared, with the filtering step.
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Segment Anything (SAM) in QGIS: 7 Plugins Compared

SAM outlines an object from a click or a word. Seven QGIS plugins run it: what each costs, which needs an NVIDIA card, and how to install one.
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Web Feature Editing for QGIS Data in Kumoy - QGIS LAB by MIERUNE

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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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