QGIS Archives - Digital Geography

Automated UI tests with AutoIt for QGIS

I hate testing! Yet I do understand that it is crucial for a good software solution. As I am often confronted with GUIs, I asked myself how to…

Post author By Riccardo

qgis2web in the wild

There are plenty of webmapping services out there. The best known might be mapbox, carto, arcgis online, google maps. But what they all share: they do not come…

Post author By Riccardo

Short Note: export layers to PostGIS with Processing

When using QGIS along with PostGIS you might want to publish data directly from inside QGIS into your PostGIS database. This is not only convenient as you don’t…

Post author By Riccardo

Copernicus, Sentinel and your favourite GIS

The Copernicus Program provides an interesting alternative data source for your work with Landsat data… Sentinel images: Copernicus will deliver an unprecedented volume of free data, provide new…

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openrouteservice v4.5 is released

We’re happy to announce the release of v4.5 of openrouteservice, which exposes unique services for two of our core API’s, routing and isochrones. Now you can restrict routes…

Post author By nilsnolde

QGIS 3 officially released

On 24th of February, the QGIS developers have officially released QGIS 3 (codename “Girona”). It is the third major version of the free and open source cross-platform GIS…

Post author By Daniel

Donut Polygons in QGIS, ArcMap, ArcGIS Pro and geoJSON

Donut Polygons were the nightmare in first GIS courses. At the very moment I can’t remember why but the concept of an inner and an outer part makes…

Post author By Jakob

Short Announcement: New OSM routing plugin for QGIS OSM Tools

Two years ago I wrote the OSMroute plugin which enable the QGIS user to use the OpenRouteService API for geocoding of points, accessibility analysis as well as routing…

Post author By Riccardo

Vagrant: Setup and Share your Digital Geo-Lab

In one of my last posts I described the installation of a git server to improve collaborative work in closed environments. But developing solutions can be a pain…

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Short Announcement: QGIS 3.0 is on its way

QGIS 3.0 is the next big release in terms of features and tools. As it is stated in this e-mail chain we could expect this new major release…

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Geocoding in GIS: ArcGIS, QGIS, Leaflet

The recent move from the Mongolian Post to use W3W as their new address system shed a new light on the question: Where are addresses located and how…

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PostgreSQL and PostGIS: A brief introduction

You probably seen this already (maybe on your very own PC as well): A folder with shape files. Well we’re living in the 21st century and I do…

Post author By Riccardo