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Welcome to New QGIS PSC Members

Nominations for the QGIS PSC closed at 00:00 UTC on August 25, 2013 [1]. With only one nominee for each role, the PSC unanimously moved to accept each without election. The QGIS PSC welcomes new members Anita Graser, Richard Duivenvoorde, and Jürgen Fischer. The PSC is now composed of: Chair - Gary Sherman Community Advisor - Otto Dassau Design Advisor - Anita Graser Financial and Marketing Advisor - Paolo Cavallini Infrastructure Manager - Richard Duivenvoorde Release Manager - Jürgen Fischer Technical Advisor - Marco Hugentobler Testing/QA Manager - Tim Sutton The new PSC members begin their terms immediately.
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QGIS PSC Call for Nominations

The QGIS Project Steering Committee (PSC) has announced a call for nominations to fill three vacant positions: Design Advisor Infrastructure Manager Release Manager Nominations are open until August 24, 2013. For details on the PSC, vacancies, and how to nominate someone, see the [Call for Nominations August 2013] (http://hub.qgis.org/projects/quantum-gis/wiki/Call_for_Nominations_August_2013).
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AGIT 2013: QGIS Cloud - Karten einfach ins Netz

Noch nie war es so einfach individuelle Web Map Services mit ansprechenden Karten, Geodatenbank und Web Client zu erstellen, wie mit QGIS Cloud. Der am 5. Juli an der AGIT 2013 in Salzburg präsentierte Vortrag kann hier herunter geladen werden. Präsentation
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FOSSGIS 2013: Performance optimised wms services with QGIS server

Performance is usually a top priority for a WMS service. A recent talk at the FOSSGIS (held by Sourcepole) shows what a WMS administrator can do to optimise QGIS server performance. Finally, the performance of QGIS server is compared with UMN mapserver in two production scenarios. Slides from FOSSGIS 2013 in Rapperswil (in german).
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QGIS Enterprise - Open Source GIS mit LTS Support

Das benutzerfreundliche und funktionsreiche Quantum GIS (QGIS) bewährt sich seit mehreren Jahren im professionellen Einsatz. Die Firma Sourcepole aus Zürich füllt jetzt eine letzte Lücke, die Organisationen davon abgehalten hat QGIS in Unternehmens-Infrastrukturen einzusetzen – der professionelle Support direkt von den Kernentwicklern. Mit dem QGIS Enterprise Long Term Support- und Wartungsvertrag erhält der Kunde die Sicherheit, eine professionell unterstützte und betriebsbereite GIS Infrastruktur auf der Basis von QGIS zu betreiben.
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QGIS Enterprise – Open Source GIS with LTS Support

Quantum QGIS, a user-friendly and full featured Open Source GIS suite, is used in a wide range of professional enterprise infrastructures. Sourcepole, located in Zurich, Switzerland, now fills the last gap, which has prevented many organizations from the use of QGIS in enterprise infrastructures so far - they offer professional support directly from QGIS core developers. With QGIS Enterprise long term support and maintenance, the customer gets a professionally supported and maintained GIS infrastructure based on QGIS.
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Hepler modules for development of QGIS plugins

There are two things I have coded, re-coded and re-re-coded through all my plugins: the management of the settings and the management of combo boxes associated to layers and their fields.

I have decided to write two generic python modules to solve these tasks to avoid reinventing the wheel every time.

The first one is called QGIS setting manager.
This module allows you to:

  • manage different types of settings (bool, string, color, integer, double, stringlist)
  • read and write settings in QGIS application or in the QGIS project
  • automatically set widgets from corresponding setting
  • automatically write settings from widgets of a dialog

This means that the class of a dialog dedicated to editing the plugins settings can be reduced to just a few lines.
You just have to name widgets according to settings and the module automatically detect the widgets, sets/reads the value from the widget and read/write the settings accordingly.

A setting class would look like this

from qgissettingmanager import *

class MySettings(SettingManager):
    def __init__(self):
        SettingManager.__init__(self, myPluginName)
        self.addSetting("myVariable", "bool", "global", True)

reading and write settings are performed by doing

self.settings = MySettings()
self.settings.setValue("myVariable", False)
myVariable = self.settings.value("myVariable")

and a dialog looks like this

class MyDialog(QDialog, Ui_myDialog, SettingDialog):
    def __init__(self):
        QDialog.__init__(self)
        self.setupUi(self)
        self.settings = MySettings()
        SettingDialog.__init__(self, self.settings)

You can find a complete howto here and look at the code on github.

The second module is called QGIS combo manager. This module autmatically manages combo box widgets for layers, fields of vector layers and bands of raster layers.
You can associate a field combo to a layer combo: as soon as the layer has been modified, the fields are updated to the current layer.

Associating a combo box to layers and another one to its fields would look like this:

from qgiscombomanager import *

self.layerComboManager = VectorLayerCombo(self.layerComboWidget)
self.myFieldComboManager = FieldCombo(self.myFieldComboManager, self.layerComboManager)

You can find a complete howto here and look at the code on github.

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QGIS Cloud and Sourcepole are sponsoring Öcher-Safari

QGIS Cloud and Sourcepole are proud to be official sponsors of the team Öcher-Safari, attending the Allgäu-Orient-Rallye. One of the last adventures in the world of cars. Sourcepole serves the team with know how, infrastructure and more. Information about the team and the charity ideas of this event you can find on Öcher-Safari and the official web site of the Allgäu-Orient-Rallye.
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QGIS Back in the Day

Do you remember this? If so, you’ve been using QGIS a long time… OGR and PostGIS support No raster support Three widgets on the Symbology tab No symbology in the legend But you could use it handily on a 640x480 display.
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New Version of the QGIS Script Runner Plugin

The Script Runner plugin allows you to manage and execute a collection of scripts in QGIS to automate tasks and perform custom processing. Version 0.6 of Script Runner has been released and includes these changes: Arguments can be passed to a script using keyword arguments Script output is logged to the Script Runner window Script output can be logged to disk Preferences dialog allows control of output and logging options Exceptions in scripts are displayed without interfering with console/logging output Context menu (right-click) to access script functions Edit script function uses system default editor or one you specify in preferences For a basic introduction to Script Runner see this post: Script Runner: A Plugin to Run Python Scripts in QGIS
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