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[Case Study] Using Mergin Maps as part of an end-to-end solution for farm management

Agrimotion, an agricultural consultancy in South Africa, specializes in perennial crops. Their IMPI platform, developed with Lutra Consulting and Mergin Maps, simplifies farm management by enhancing data collection and analysis, boosting productivity, and reducing costs.
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(Fr) Direction de la Sûreté SNCF x accompagnement QGIS et QGIS Server

Sorry, this entry is only available in French.

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QGIS DXF Export enhancements

At OPENGIS.CH, we’ve been working lately on improving the DXF Export QGIS functionality for the upcoming release 3.38. In the meantime, we’ve also added nice UX enhancements for making it easier and much more powerful to use!

Let’s see a short review.

DXF Export app dialog and processing algorithm harmonized

You can use either the app dialog or the processing algorithm, both of them offer you equivalent functionality. They are now completely harmonized!

Export settings can now be exported to an XML file

You can now have multiple settings per project available in XML, making it possible to reuse them in your workflows or share them with colleagues.

Load DXF settings from XML.

All settings are now well remembered between dialog sessions

QGIS users told us there were some dialog options that were not remembered between QGIS sessions and had to be reconfigured each time. That’s no longer the case, making it easier to reuse previous choices.

“Output layer attribute” column is now always visible in the DXF Export layer tree

We’ve made sure that you won’t miss it anymore.

DXF Export, output layer attribute

Possibility to export only the current map selection

Filter features to be exported via layer selection, and even combine this filter with the existing map extent one.

DXF Export algorithm, use only selected features

Empty layers are no longer exported to DXF

When applying spatial filters like feature selection and map extent, you might end up with empty layers to be exported. Well, those won’t be exported anymore, producing cleaner DXF output files for you.

Possibility to override the export name of individual layers

It’s often the case where your layer names are not clean and tidy to be displayed. From now on, you can easily specify how your output DXF layers should be named, without altering your original project layers.

Override output layer names for DXF export.

We’ve also fixed some minor UX bugs and annoyances that were present when exporting layers to DXF format, so that we can enjoy using it. Happy DXF exporting!

We would like to thank the Swiss QGIS user group for giving us the possibility to improve the important DXF part of QGIS 🚀🚀🚀

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Goodbye WordPress, goodbye GIS Unchained

Hello all,

Some time ago, I have become a freelancer worker. For this reason, I decided to move away from wordpress.com and this kind of hobby blog and make a bit more professional website. It took some time, but it’s ready now!

www.aneto.pt

I have move all the blog content to the new website. When it makes sense, I will try to update it to newer versions of QGIS and create new content regularly. Please follow me there. If you were following me using the RSS Feed, you can start using the following URL.

As a farewell (and welcome) gift, here’s my brand new post there:
Create a PyQGIS Development Environment Using Conda and VScode

Thank for being around,

Alexandre Neto

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GTFS algorithms about to land in Trajectools

Trajectools continues growing. Lately, we have started expanding towards public transport analysis. The algorithms available through the current Trajectools development version are courtesy of the gtfs_functions library. There are a couple of existing plugins that deal with GTFS. However, in my experience, they either don’t integrate with Processing and/or don’t provide the functions I was …

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[Changelog] Change view mode for relations from gallery to text

If you prefer using text mode for relations instead of the gallery mode, add “nogallery“ text to your relation editor title. The mobile app will then display text mode instead of gallery. The fix is now released in 2024.1.0.

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[Changelog] Identify multiple features on map

Added a new feature allowing you to identify nearest features on the map by clicking and holding. Upon holding the click, you now receive a list of the nearest features. Click one to identify it!

Released as a part of the latest mobile app (2024.1.0)

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[Changelog] Mobile app redesign released!

We are excited to announce the release of a redesigned version of our mobile app. This release includes the following:

  • New, redesigned app visuals

  • Easier access to streaming mode with the new map button

  • The app no longer automatically centers to position when adding new features

  • Auto-centering to GPS is now accessible by clicking the GPS button

Thank you for your continued support and feedback! You can read a detailed list of changes here or our redesign blog post here. We also recorded an overview video showcasing these changes.

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[Changelog] Dashboard redesign released!

We are excited to share that our redesigned dashboard has been released. Explore it yourself at merginmaps.com or read redesign blog post here.

This release also includes multiple user experience enhancements in the members tab, project collaborators tab and ease of use of sharing dialogues.

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My QGIS Cloud Map is slow. How can I make it faster?

QGIS Cloud Support is repeatedly asked: ‘Why is my QGIS Cloud map so slow and what can I do to make it faster?’ Basically, the bottlenecks can be traced back to poor data management and/or a slow internet connection. In this short blog article, I would like to give you a few tips on what you can do to speed up a slow loading map. Optimise the data Make sure that your database is optimised and that you only use the necessary data in your web map.
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