Dear QGIS Community,

We recently held our 2023 QGIS Annual General Meeting. The minutes of this meeting are available for all to view.

This year, we did not have PSC elections. Anita Graser will continue as Vice-Chair, I will continue to serve on the PSC as chair, and our longstanding treasurer, Andreas Neumann, will complete the board. Furthermore, Jürgen Fischer, Alessandro Pasotti, and Régis Haubourg will continue on the PSC. Last but certainly not least, the PSC is completed by our project founder, Gary Sherman, and long-term PSC member Tim Sutton, who serve on the PSC as honorary PSC members. They both set the standard for our excellent project culture, and it is great to have his continued presence.

QGIS has been growing from strength to strength, backed by a fantastic community of kind and collaborative users, developers, contributors and funders. This year, we reached another important milestone for the project’s sustainability by welcoming our first flagship sustaining member – Felt. I look forward to seeing how it continues to grow and flourish.

Rock on QGIS!

Cheers

Marco Bernasocchi (QGIS.ORG Chair)

This autumn, from September to November, 84 new plugins have been published in the QGIS plugin repository.

Here’s the quick overview in reverse chronological order. If any of the names or short descriptions piques your interest, you can find the direct link to the plugin page in the table below:

SOSIexpressions

Expressions related to SOSI-data

Puentes

Run external Python files inside QGIS.

UA CRS Magic

Підбір системи кординат для векторного шару

FilterMate

FilterMate is a Qgis plugin, a daily companion that allows you to easily explore, filter and export vector data

QWC2_Tools

QGIS plug-in designed to publish and manage the publication of projects in a QWC2 instance. The plugin allows you to publish projects, delete projects and view the list of published projects.

QGIS Fast Grid Inspection (FGI)

This plugin aims to allow the generation and classification of samples from predefined regions.

QDuckDB

This plugin adds a new data prodivder that can read DuckDB databases and display their tables as a layer in QGIS.

CIGeoE Toggle Label Visibility

Toggle label visibility

CIGeoE Merge Areas

Centro de Informação Geoespacial do Exército

Drainage

the hydro DEM analysis with the TauDEM

Postcode Finder

The plugin prompts the user to select the LLPG data layer from the Layers Panel and enter a postcode. The plugin will search for the postcode, if found, the canvas will zoom to all the LLPG points in the postcode.

Multi Union

This plugin runs the UNION MULTIPLE tool, allowing you to use up to 6 polygon vector layers simultaneously.

FLO-2D MapCrafter

This plugin creates maps from FLO-2D output files.

Download raster GEE

download_raster_gee

GisCarta

Manage your GisCarta data

TENGUNGUN

To list up and download point cloud data such as “VIRTUAL SHIZUOKA”

LADM COL UV

Plugin de Qgis para la evaluación de calidad en el proceso de captura y mantenimiento de datos conformes con el modelo LADM-COL

ohsomeTools

ohsome API, spatial and temporal OSM requests for QGIS

Social Burden Calculator

This plugin calculates social burden

Show Random Changelog Entry on Launch

Shows a random entry in the QGIS version’s visual changelog upon QGIS launch

Fotowoltaika LP

Wyznaczanie lokalizacji pod farmy fotowoltaiczne LP

KICa – KAN Imagery Catalog

KICa, is QGIS plugin Kan Imagery Catalog, developed by Kan Territory & IT to consult availability of images in an area in an agnostic way, having as main objective to solve the need and not to focus on suppliers. In the beginning, satellite imagery providers (free and commercial) are incorporated, but it is planned to incorporate drone imagery among others.

Risk Assessment

Risk assessment calculation for forecast based financing

ViewDrone

A QGIS plugin for viewshed analysis in drone mission planning

qgis2opengis

Make Lite version of OpenGIS – open source webgis

Quick Shape Update

Automatic update of the shapes length and/or area in the selected layer

CoolParksTool

This plugin evaluates the cooling effect of a park and its impact on buildings energy and thermal comfort

Nahlížení do KN

Unofficial integration for Nahlížení do Katastru nemovitostí.

PyGeoRS

PyGeoRS is a dynamic QGIS plugin designed to streamline and enhance your remote sensing workflow within the QGIS environment.

D4C Plugin

This plugin allows the manbipulation from QGis of Data4Citizen datasets (Open Data platform based on Drupal and CKan)

Avenza Maps’s KML/KMZ File Importer

This plugin import features from KML e KMZ files from Avenza Maps

Histogram Matching

Image histogram matching process

PV Prospector

Displays the PV installation potential for residential properties. The pv_area layer is derived from 1m LIDAR DSM, OSMM building outlines and LLPG data.

Save Attributes (Processing)

This plugin adds an algorithm to save attributes of selected layer as a CSV file

Artificial Intelligence Forecasting Remote Sensing

This plugin allows time series forecasting using deep learning models.

Salvar Pontos TXT

Esse plugin salvar camada de pontos em arquivo TXT

QGIS to Illustrator with PlugX

The plugin to convert QGIS maps to import from Illustrator. With PlugiX-QGIS, you can transfer maps designed in QGIS to Illustrator!

QCrocoFlow

A QGIS plugin to manage CROCO projectsqcrocoflow

Soft Queries

This plugin brings tools that allow processing of data using fuzzy set theory and possibility theory.

TerrainZones

This Plugin Identifies & Creates Sub-Irrigation Zones

Consolidate Networks

Consolidate Networks is a a Qgis plugin bringing together a set of tools to consolidate your network data.

AWD

Automatic waterfalls detector

SAGis XPlanung

Plugin zur XPlanung-konformen Erfassung und Verwaltung von Bauleitplänen

Monitask

a SAM (facebook segment anything model and its decendants) based geographic information extraction tool just by interactive click on remote sensing image, as well as an efficient geospatial labeling tool.

PLATEAU QGIS Plugin

Import the PLATEAU 3D City Models (CityGML) used in Japan — PLATEAU 3D都市モデルのCityGMLファイルをQGISに読み込みます

FLO-2D Rasterizor

A plugin to rasterize general FLO-2D output files.

Geoportal Lokalizator

PL: Wtyczka otwiera rządowy geoportal w tej samej lokacji w której użytkownik ma otwarty canvas QGIS-a. EN: The plugin opens the government geoportal in the same location where the user has the QGIS canvas open (Poland only).

BorderFocus

clicks on the edge center them on the canvas

LANDFILL SITE SELECTION

LANDFILL SITE SELECTION

Bearing & Distance

This plugin contains tools for the calculation of bearing and distances for both single and multiple parcels.

Moisture and Water Index 2.0

Este complemento calcula el índice NDWI con las imágenes del Landsat 8.

K-L8Slice

Este nombre combina el algoritmo k-means que se utiliza para el agrupamiento (K) con “Landsat 8”, que es el tipo específico de imágenes satelitales utilizadas, y “Slicer”, que hace referencia al proceso de segmentación o corte de la imagen en diferentes clusters o grupos de uso del suelo.

EcoVisioL8

Este complemento fue diseñado para automatizar y optimizar la obtención de índices SAVI, NDVI y SIPI, así como la realización de correcciones atmosféricas en imágenes Landsat 8.

QGIS Animation Workbench

A plugin to let you build animations in QGIS

Catastro con Historia

Herramienta para visualizar el WMS de Catastro en pantalla partida con historia.

RechercheCommune

Déplace la vue sur l’emprise de la commune choisie.

Sentinel2 SoloBand

Sentinel2 SoloBand is a plugin for easily searching for individual bands in Sentinel-2 imagery.

CIGeoE Right Angled Symbol Rotation

Right Angled Symbol Rotation

CIGeoE Node Tool

Tool to perform operations over nodes of a selected feature, not provided by similar tools and plugins.

Spatial Distribution Pattern

This plugin estimates the Spatial Distribution Pattern of point and linear features.

Webmap Utilities

This plugin provides tools for clustered and hierarchical visualization of vector layers, creation of Relief Shading and management of scales using zoom levels.

Simstock QGIS

Allows urban building energy models to be created and simulated within QGIS

Fast Point Inspection

Fast Point Inspection is a QGIS plugin that streamlines the process of classifying point geometries in a layer.

Layer Grid View

The Layer Grid Plugin provides an intuitive dockable widget that presents a grid of map canvases.

Kadastr.Live Toolbar

Пошук ділянки на карті Kadastr.Live за кадастровим номером.

S+HydPower

Plugin designed to estimate hydropower generation.

QollabEO

Collaborative functions for interaction with remote users.

digitizer

digitizer

NetADS

NetADS est un logiciel web destiné à l’instruction dématérialisée des dossiers d’urbanisme.

Runoff Model: RORB

Build a RORB control vector from a catchment

FlexGIS

Manage your FlexGIS data

LXExportDistrict

Export administrative district

PostGIS Toolbox

Plugin for QGIS implementing selected PostGIS functions

Chasse – Gestion des lots

Fonctions permettant de définir la surface cadastrale des lots de chasse et d’extraire la liste des parcelles concernées par chaque lot de chasse, sous forme de fichier Excel®.

Time Editor

Used to facilitate the editing of features with lifespan information

RST

This plugin computes biophysical indices

Japanese Grid Mesh

Create common grid squares used in Japan. 日本で使われている「標準地域メッシュ」および「国土基本図図郭」を作成できます。また、国勢調査や経済センサスなどの「地域メッシュ統計」のCSVファイルを読み込むこともできます。プロセッシングツールボックスから利用できます。

Panoramax

Upload, load and display your immersive views hosted on a Panoramax instance.

StereoPhoto

Permet la visualisation d’images avec un système stéréoscopique

CIGeoE Merge Multiple Lines

Merge multiple lines by coincident vertices and with the same attribute names and values.

CIGeoE Merge Lines

Merge 2 lines that overlap (connected in a vertex) and have same attribute names and values.

Nimbo’s Earth Basemaps

Nimbo’s Earth Basemaps is an innovative Earth observation service providing cloud-free, homogenous mosaics of the world’s entire landmass as captured by satellite imagery, updated every month.

OpenHLZ

An Open-source HLZ Identification Processing Plugin

Selection as Filter

This plugin makes filter for the selected features

We are pleased to announce the release of QGIS 3.34 Prizren!

Installers for Windows and Linux are already out. QGIS 3.34 comes with tons of new features, as you can see in our visual changelog. QGIS 3.34 Prizren is named after this year’s FOSS4G host city.

We would like to thank the developers, documenters, testers and all the many folks out there who volunteer their time and effort (or fund people to do so). From the QGIS community we hope you enjoy this release! If you wish to donate time, money or otherwise get involved in making QGIS more awesome, please wander along to qgis.org and lend a hand!

QGIS is supported by donors and sustaining members. A current list of donors who have made financial contributions large and small to the project can be seen on our donors list. If you would like to become a sustaining member, please visit our page for sustaining members for details. Your support helps us fund our six monthly developer meetings, maintain project infrastructure and fund bug fixing efforts.

QGIS is Free software and you are under no obligation to pay anything to use it – in fact we want to encourage people far and wide to use it regardless of what your financial or social status is – we believe empowering people with spatial decision making tools will result in a better society for all of humanity.

Background

Our web site (https://qgis.org) dates back to 2013, it is time for a revision!

As well as modernizing the look and feel of the site, we want the content to be updated to represent changes in the maturity of the project.

We want to appeal to new audiences, especially business and NGO decision makers (in particular the experience for the front pages), whilst still maintaining appeal to grass roots users (especially the lower level pages which contain many technical details and community collaboration notes).

We want to enhance our fund raising efforts through a site that encourages people to contribute to, as well as take from, the project.

Existing effort

First some key links:

• Current web site: https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Website
• Design for new web site landing page: https://qgis.github.io/QGIS-Hugo/
• Design for new web site (figma): https://www.figma.com/file/1jFYgq9R5nwHChf4HhhHpW/QGIS-(Copy)?type=design&node-id=301-299&mode=design&t=rvdeAl4RSuzKJftu-0 
• Code for new web site (what we have built so far): https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Hugo
• Plugins web site: https://plugins.qgis.org
• QGIS Documentation Site: https://www.qgis.org/en/docs/index.html 
• QGIS User Manual: https://docs.qgis.org/3.28/en/docs/user_manual/
• QGIS Server Manual: https://docs.qgis.org/3.28/en/docs/server_manual/
• Gentle Introduction to GIS: https://docs.qgis.org/3.28/en/docs/gentle_gis_introduction/
• QGIS Python Cookbook: https://docs.qgis.org/3.28/en/docs/pyqgis_developer_cookbook/
• QGIS C++  API Documentation: https://api.qgis.org/api/3.28/
• QGIS Python API Documentation: https://qgis.org/pyqgis/3.28/
• QGIS Certification and Changelog: https://changelog.qgis.org/en/

The above websites were created with a mix of technologies:

• Sphinx (rst)
• Doxygen
• Custom Django Apps

It will not be possible to unify the technology used for all of the above sites, but we want all of the web sites to have a cohesive appearance and the navigation flow between them to be seamless. For the main website at https://qgis.org and its child pages, we want to re-implement the site to provide a new experience – according to the design we have laid out in our figma board. Note that we want to follow this design. Some small tweaks will be fine but we are not looking for a ‘from scratch’ re-implementation of our design.

This will be our website for the next 10 years – you need to hand it over to us in a way that we can continue working on it and maintaining it without your intervention.

We are calling for proposals to help us with this migration as per the phases described below.

Phase 1⃣: Project planning

• Timeline
• Proposed site structure
  • What content will be kept
  • What will be removed
  • What is new to be added
• Keep front page as starting point
  • Suggest tweaks if needed
• Establish a clear vocabulary of page types
  • Second and third level page design
  • Special pages such as
    • Download
    • Release countdown
    • Donation / sustaining members
    • Gallery
    • and any other you identify as non-standard second/third level
• Guidance and standards for producing visuals like screenshots etc. For example, how we present QGIS screenshots in a flattering way.
• Establish a plan for auxiliary sites:
  • Plugins.qgis.org
  • Api.qgis.org
  • Docs.qgis.org
  • etc. (see intro for more exhaustive list)
• Iterative review and feedback from the QGIS web team should be incorporated from biweekly check in calls.

Outcome: We have a clear roadmap and design guide for migrating all of our websites to a consistent unified experience.

Phase 2⃣: Content migration of the main site

During this phase the contractor will focus on migrating the content of the main site to the new platform.

There will be an iterative review and feedback from the QGIS web team should be incorporated from biweekly check-in calls.

Outcome: https://qgis.org new site goes live! (Target date end of February 2024)

Phase 3⃣: Auxiliary sites migrations

This is out of scope of the current call for proposals but should be part of the overall planning process:

This would be a collaborative process involving a QGIS funded web developer and the consultant. 

Iterative review and feedback from the QGIS web team should be incorporated from biweekly check in calls.

Outcome: Auxiliary sites goes live with a cohesive look and feel to match the main site.

What we will provide

• Maps and screenshots, videos, animations (with inputs from design team)
• Inputs in terms of content review

Qualification criteria

Payment milestones

10 % Kick off

40 % Phase 1 Completion

50 % Phase 2 Completion

Indicative budget

We would like to point you to the QGIS Annual Budget so that you have a sense of our broad financial means (i.e. we will not be able to afford proposals in excess of €25,000 for phase 1+2).

https://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/governance/annual_reports/index.html

Technology choices and IP:

• Must be wholly based on Open Source tooling (e.g. javascript, css, web frameworks)
• Needs to be ideally implemented in Hugo (or Sphinx)
• Must produce a static web site (except for existing django based sites)
• Publication and development workflow will follow standard pull request / review process via our GitHub repositories
• Mobile friendly
• Site will be english only – any auto-translation tooling that can be added so that users can trivially see an auto-translated version of the site will be considered favourably.

Proposal submission

Your proposal should consist of no more than 5 pages (include links to relevant annexes if needed) covering the following:

• Overview of yourself / your organization
• Delivery timeline
• Team composition
• Budget for each phase
• Examples of prior work
• Bonus things to mention if relevant: GIS experience & working with Open Source projects

Please send your proposal to [email protected] by October 29nd 2023 midnight, anywhere on earth.

Thanks to our generous donors and sustaining members, we are in the wonderful position to be able to further extend our 2023 Grant Programme and to fund two additional projects that came in very close 5th and 6th in the voting results:

• QEP#261 Cachable provider metadata API — or how to the QGIS loading times
• QEP#236 Unification of all geometric and topological verification methods

On behalf of the QGIS.ORG project, I would like to thank everyone who helped with the fund raising and everyone who stepped up and joined our donor and sustaining membership programme.

In August 13 new plugins that have been published in the QGIS plugin repository.

Here’s the quick overview in reverse chronological order. If any of the names or short descriptions piques your interest, you can find the direct link to the plugin page in the table below the screenshot.

Cesium ion

Browse and add datasets from Cesium ion

Land Use Analyzer

A plugin for Land Use spatial analysis tools

GNAVS

GNSS Navigate and Save

Soar – the new atlas

Import or export maps via the Soar platform

FotovolCAT

Spatial analysis automation for solar power station sitting in Catalonia

QGISSPARQL-Layer2Triple

Layer2Triple

osm2topomap

A plugin intended to intermediate the process of using OSM data for official (authoritative) Topographc Maps, or rather, databases

Plugin Exporter

A QGIS plugin for exporting plugins

GetBaseLine

GetBaseLine

Fast Field Filler

The plugin was created to quickly fill in the fields in the attribute table.

Radiation ToolBox Plugin

Plugin for loading data from Safecast and other radiation monitoring devices

LocationIQ Geocoding and Maps

LocationIQ integration to add geocoding and map tiles to QGIS

Proxy Handler

Adds prefix proxy addresses to connections

QGIS Server provides numerous services like WMS, WFS, WCS, WMTS and OGC API for Features. These last years, a lot of efforts were made to offer a robust implementation of the WMS 1.3.0 specification.

We are pleased to announce that QGIS Server LTR 3.28 is now certified against WMS 1.3.0.

This formal OGC certification process is performed once a year, specifically for the Long Term Release versions. But, as every change in QGIS source code is now tested against the formal OGC test suites (using OGC TeamEngine) to avoid any kind of regressions, you can always check any revision of the code against OGC failures in our Github continuous integration results.

All this has been possible thanks to the QGIS’s sustaining members and contributors.

In this summer plugin update, we explore 51 new plugins that have been published in the QGIS plugin repository.

Here’s the quick overview in reverse chronological order. If any of the names or short descriptions piques your interest, you can find the direct link to the plugin page in the table below the screenshot.

JAPATI
The QGIS plugin is used by agencies in the West Java provincial government to upload data and create map services on the geoserver in order to publish data internally and publicly
BD TOPO® Extractor
This tool allows you to extract specific data from IGN’s BD TOPO®. The extraction is based on either an extent drawned by the user on the map canvas or a layer’s extent.
Opacity Set
Sets opacity 0.5, 0.75 or 1 for selected raster layer.
USM toolset (Urban Sprawl Metric toolset)
The USM Toolset was developed to facilitate the calculation of Weighted Urban Proliferation (WUP) and all components of urban sprawl for landscapes that include built-up areas (e.g., dispersion (DIS), land uptake per person (LUP).
DAI
DAI (Daily Aerial Image)
France Commune Cadastre
Search for a cadastral parcel with the French cadastre API
Two distances intersection
Get the intersection of two distances (2D cartesian)
IDG
Plugin providing easy access to data from different SDI
SPAN
SPAN is a flexible and easy to use open-source plugin based on the QGIS software for rooftop mounted PV potential estimation capable of estimating every roof surface’s PV potential.
CSV Batch Import
Batch import of CSV vector layers
Imagine Sustainability
sustainability assessment tool based on geographic MCDA algorithms. Especially suitable for Natura 2000 sites, based on pyrepo-mcda package(https://pyrepo-mcda.readthedocs.io/)
QGIS Hub Plugin
A QGIS plugin to fetch resources from the QGIS Hub
VFK Plugin
Data českého katastru nemovitostí (VFK)<br><br>Czech cadastre data (VFK)
LinearReferencing
Tools for linear referenced data
CIGeoE Circumvent Polygon
Changes the line to circumvent a polygon between the intersection points
UA XML importer
Імпортує геометрію ділянки, обмежень, угідь та територіальних зон з кадастрового обмінного файлу XML
eagris
QGIS eAGRI plugin
Geojson Filling
Allows to fill imported geojson layers with pre-defined field values
Save All
File saving script that saves qgis project file and all vector and raster layers into user-specified folder. Automatically detects file type and saves as that file type (supports SHP, GPKG, KML, CSV, and TIF). All styles and formatting are saved with each layer (except for KML), ensuring that they are opened up with the proper style the next time the project is opened. Temporary layers are made permanent automatically.
Fast Density Analysis
A fast kernel density visualization plugin for geospatial analytics
StreetSmart
This plugin manages the Street Smart imagery
FilePath
Copies the path of layer
pandapower QGis Plugin
Plugin to work with pandapower or pandapipes networks
Eqip
Qgis Pip Management
Infra-O plugin
Plugin for Finnish municipal asset management.
Add to Felt
Create a collaborative Felt (felt.com) map from QGIS
Lahar Flow Map Tools
This plugin is for opening and processing results from LaharFlow
Station Offset
This plugin computes the station and offset of points along polylines and exports those values to csv for other applications
Jilin1Tiles
Jilin1Tiles
SiweiEarth
This plugin is used to load the daily new map provided by Siwei Earth.
QdrawEVT
Easily draw and select entities in the drawing footprint. Installation of the plugin “Memory layer saver” highly recommended. See Read_me.txt file in the Help folder of the plugin. Dessiner et selectionner facilement les entités dans l’emprise du dessin. Installation du plugin “Memory layer saver” fortement recommandé. Voir fichier Lisez_moi dans le dossier Hepl du plugin. Merci !
Fuzzy Logic Toolbox
This plugin implements the fuzzy inference system
feature_space
A plugin to plot feature space and export areas as raster or vector
Panorama Viewer
Plugin for QGIS to view 360-degrees panoramic photos
Map Segmenter
Uses machine learning to segment a map into ares of interest.
ALKIS Plugin
Das Plugin verfügt über zwei Werkzeugkästen und insgesamt vier einfache Werkzeuge. Im Werkzeugkasten “Gebäude” finden Sie drei nützliche Werkzeuge, um ALKIS-Gebäudedaten aufzubereiten. Sie können Dachüberstände erstellen, Gebäude auf der Erdoberfläche extrahieren und redundante Gebäudeteile eliminieren. Im Werkzeugkasten “Nutzung” steht Ihnen ein weiteres Werkzeug zur Verfügung, mit dem Sie die Objektarten in den Objektartengruppen Vegetation, Siedlung, Verkehr und Gewässer zuordnen können. Das Plugin erfordert als Datengrundlage ALKIS-Daten im vereinfachten Format, die in NRW, Deutschland, frei verfügbar sind. Dieses Plugin wurde zu Demonstrationszwecken entwickelt. Das Ziel besteht darin, in einer Videoreihe die Entwicklung eines Plugins ohne die Anwendung von Python vorzustellen. Die Tutorials dazu findet ihr in der folgenden Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq5L9pOv_ur5wRAVHt3iVw61mUUpb54aJ
isobenefit
Isobenefit Urbanism plugin for QGIS.
UA_MBD_TOOLS
Tools for
Qpositional
assessment the positional quality of geographic data
Terraform
Implementation of popular topographic correction algorithms and various methods of their evaluation.
PathoGAME
The goal is to find the location of the contamination as soon as possible.
Azure Maps Creator
Provides access to Azure Maps Creator services
CIGeoE Identify Dangles
Identifies dangles in a viewport
Delete Duplicate Fields
Delete duplicate or redundant fields from a vector file
LocationFinder
Allow QGIS to use LocationFinder (interactive geocoding)
COA TPW Polygonizer
This plugin can be used to create polygons that track the shape of a line network, including the proper handling of intersections with common nodes of the line segments.
XPlan-Umring
Create XPlanGML from polygon(s)
Tweet my river
AI Tweet classifier for river layers
3DCityDB Tools
Tools to visualize and manipulate CityGML data stored in the 3D City Database
GroundTruther
A toolset for Seafloor Caracterization
Faunalia Toolkit
Cartographic and spatial awesome analysis tool and much much more!

We are happy to announce that OSGeo kindly extended an invitation to have a QGIS contributor meeting joining the OSGeo Community Sprint 2023 during the Big Data from Space 2023 conference in Vienna.

The 26th QGIS Contributor Meeting will be held from Monday, November 6th to Thursday, 9th.

• Where: Austria Center Vienna https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/48.2343/16.4144
• When:  Mon 2023-⁠⁠11-06 09:00 -⁠⁠ Thu 2023-11-09 12:00

For more details and to sign up, please visit the corresponding OSGeo announcement page.

About QGIS contributor meetings

QGIS Contributors Meetings are volunteer-driven events where contributors to the QGIS project from around the world get together in a common space – usually a university campus. During these events, contributors to the QGIS project take the opportunity to plan their work, hold face-to-face discussions and present new improvements to the QGIS project that they have been working on. Everybody attending the event donates their time to the project for the days of the event. As a project that is built primarily through online collaboration, these meetings provide a crucial ingredient to the future development of the QGIS project. The event is planned largely as an ‘unconference’ with minimal structured programme planning. We do this to allow attendees the freedom to meet dynamically with those they encounter at the event. Those sessions that are planned are advertised on the event web page, and we try to enable remote participation through video conferencing software. Although our hosts are not funded and donate the working space to us, we show our appreciation by making one of our software release’s splash screens in honour of that host, which is a great way to gain exposure of your institution and country to the hundreds of thousands of users that make use of QGIS.

About OSGeo

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) has a long tradition of organizing code sprints for developers of Free and Open Source GIS software.

Since 2009, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) has been organizing a yearly Code Sprint of the “C Tribe” OSGeo projects, which has evolved into a full OSGeo Community Sprint and all “Tribes” are included/welcome. Leading developers of projects like GDAL, PostGIS,
MapServer, GeoServer, GRASS, QGIS, PDAL, pygeoapi and many more get together to discuss new ideas, hack, decide, tackle large geospatial problems and have fun.

The OSGeo Community Sprint is open to all who wish to participate in one or more projects. There is always plenty to do – it’s not all about programming. Translation, documentation, feedback, discussions, testing – all this is also important for projects so everyone is cordially invited to attend the code sprint!

About BiDS

BiDS brings together key actors from industry, academia, EU entities and government to reveal user needs, exchange ideas and showcase the latest technical solutions and applications touching all aspects of space and big data technologies, providing a unique opportunity to discuss and present the most recent innovations and challenges encountered in the context of big data from space. The 2023 edition of BiDS will focus not only on technologies enabling insight and foresight inferable from big data from space. Together, we want to emphasize how breakthrough space data-driven technologies impact society’s grand challenges, such as climate change and the green transition.

The event, organized by the European Space Agency (ESA) together with the European Union Satellite Center (SatCen) and the Joint Research Center (JRC), will take place at the Austria center Vienna, and counts on the support of the partners FFG, Austria in Space and the Federal Ministry Republic of Austria.

In May 22 new plugins that have been published in the QGIS plugin repository.

Here’s the quick overview in reverse chronological order. If any of the names or short descriptions piques your interest, you can find the direct link to the plugin page in the table below the screenshot.

Station Offset

This plugin computes the station and offset of points along polylines and exports those values to csv for other applications

MGP Connect

Enable Maxar SecureWatch customers to stream imagery more effectively in QGIS.

Triple2Layer

this plugin imports data

DiscordRPC Plugin for QGIS

QGIS plugin that enables displaying a Rich Presence in Discord

ERS

This plugin determines calculated polluant concentrations around sensible sites’s perimeters

IPP

This plugin calculates IPP

Road Vectorisation

This plugin is designed to vectorize roads on satellite images

Image vectorisator

Plugin for image vectorisation

H-RISK with noisemodelling

Sound levels and Health risks of environmental noise

Non_electrical_vehicle

This plugins calculates number of non electrical vehicles

HOT Templates and Symbology Manager

QGIS plugin for managing HOT map templates and symbology

Transparency Setter

Apply the specified transparency value to both vector and raster layers, as well as layers within the selected groups in the Layer Panel

DBGI

Creates geopackages that match the requirements for the DBGI project

StyleLoadSave

Load or Save active vector layer style

PixelCalculator

Interactively calculate the mean value of selected pixels of a raster layer.

GISTDA sphere basemap

A plugin for adding base map layers from GISTDA sphere platform (https://sphere.gistda.or.th/).

Adjust Style

Adjust the style of a map with a few clicks instead of altering every single symbol (and symbol layer) for many layers, categories or a number of label rules. A quick way to adjust the symbology of all layers (or selected layers) consistantly, to check out how different colors / stroke widths / fonts work for a project, and to save and load styles of all layers – or even to apply styles to another project. With one click, it allows to: adjust color of all symbols (including color ramps and any number of symbol layers) and labels using the HSV color model (rotate hue, change saturation and value); change line thickness (i.e. stroke width of all symbols / symbol borders); change font size of all labels; replace a font family used in labels with another font family; save / load the styles of all layers at once into/from a given folder.

APLS

This plugin performs Average Path Length Similarity

qaequilibrae

Transportation modeling toolbox for QGIS

QGPT Agent

QGPT Agent is LLM Assistant that uses openai GPT model to automate QGIS processes

FuzzyJoinTables

Join tables using min Damerau-Levenshtein distance

Chandrayaan-2 IIRS

Generates reflectance from Radiance data of Imaging Infrared Spectrometer sensor of Chandrayaan 2

We are extremely pleased to announce the 4 winning proposals for our 2023 QGIS.ORG grant programme:

• QEP#266 QGIS Bug Tracker cleanup
• QEP#271 Porting to C++ and harmonization of Processing algorithms
• QEP#267 Add vertical CRS handling to QGIS
• QEP#268 Improve test result handling on QGIS CI

Funding for the programme was sourced by you, our project donors and sponsors! Note: For more context surrounding our grant programme, please see: QGIS Grants #8: Call for Grant Proposals 2023.

The QGIS.ORG Grant Programme aims to support work from our community that would typically not be funded by client/contractor agreements. This means that we did not accept proposals for the development of new features. Instead proposals focus on infrastructure improvements and polishing of existing features.

Voting to select the successful projects was carried out by our QGIS Voting Members. Each voting member was allowed to select up to 6 proposals. The full list of votes are available here (on the first sheet). The following sheets contain the calculations used to determine the winner (for full transparency). The table below summarizes the voting tallies for the proposals:

A couple of extra notes about the voting process:

• Voting was carried out based on the technical merits of the proposals and the competency of the applicants to execute on these proposals.
• No restrictions were in place in terms of how many proposals could be submitted per person / organization, or how many proposals could be awarded to each proposing person / organization.
• Voting was ‘blind’ (voters could not see the existing votes that had been placed).

We received 35 votes from 20 community representatives and 15 user group representatives.

On behalf of the QGIS.ORG project, I would like to thank everyone who submitted proposals for this call!

April wasn’t just the month of our wonderful user conference and contributor meeting, it was also a month with a whopping 23 new plugins that have been published in the QGIS plugin repository.

Here’s the quick overview in reverse chronological order. If any of the names or short descriptions piques your interest, you can find the direct link to the plugin page in the table below the screenshot.

Network Store Plugin
export layers to kisters network store
Sphere Basemap Layers
This plugin let you to add a variety of thailand basemap from GISTDA sphere Open Platform
Earth, Sun, Moon, and Planets
Tools to calculate the positions of the sun, moon, and planets when viewed from directly overhead for a particular date and time. It displays solar and lunar information for a coordinate at the specified date and time. (Note the Python library dependencies.)
Concaveman QGIS
Makes concave hull for points
CIGeoE Holes 3D
Draws holes in polygons (3D)
AemetOpenDataDownloader
This Plugin download open data from aemet
Topography
The plugin is available in this first version with the functionality to calculate closed polygons using the projections method.
Green View Index
A plugin for Green View Index (GVI) operations
Datos Espaciales de Referencia de Andalucía (DERA)
Loading of wfs/wms services from DERA Spatial Reference Data.Carga de los servicios wfs/wms de los Datos Espaciales de Referencia DERA
Lidar Manager
Manage LiDAR (dtm/dsm) dataset from Tile Index Layer
OpenCraterTool
A tool to measure and compare craters
GeoTrace2
A QGIS plugin for geological mapping
TianDiTu Tools
天地图底图加载
OpenCage Geocoder
Geocoding using the OpenCage API
DMP Data Catalogue
Discover and add layers from the Danish Miljøportal data catalog
File Management
Plugin to help with file management from the Layers Panel.
Bestagon
Form (mostly Hexagon) generator for point intensities
Indiana Ortho Imagery
This plugin provide easy access to Indiana Ortho Imageries
Adresssuche
Searching for an adresspoint in Germany based on offical data – ALKIS Adresssuche
GpuDataChecker
Plugin pour l’aide au contrôle de la validité géométrique de données pour intégration dans le géoportail de l’urbanisme
Tile Index Generator
This plugin creates tile index in vector format for XYZ tiles.
SeaLevelTool
Adjust styling on raster layer by a sea level curve.
DataSud
Plugin pour QGIS 3 fournissant un accès simple aux flux de données géographiques (WMS, WFS) publiées par la Région Sud sur DataSud.fr.

Last week, we had our 25th Contributor Meeting in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands. Prior to the meeting, the International QGIS User Conference, brought together 200 participants from all around the world who came to learn about QGIS and exchange ideas and best practices.

The conference programme was jam-packed with great content. Over 50 presentations were given during the conference, with the participants enjoying the Dutch atmosphere whilst building up their knowledge of QGIS and sharing their ideas. With more than 20 years of development behind us, QGIS has become a stable platform that supports geospatial decision making, analysis and decision making in all sorts of endeavours. We saw lots of talks that demonstrated this maturity, for example a presentation John Holden and Blake Esselsteyn showed how QGIS is being used to determine voting districts to support the democratic process, Angelina Savchuk showed how QGIS is being used to support the work of the Red Cross, whilst Nick Vervaal showed us how QGIS is used to make high tech artistic laser cut maps from wood.

We were honoured to be joined by Lucho Ferrer who came all the way from Peru! Ujaval Gandhi travelled all the way from India and wowed the audience with his workshop on QGIS Actions.

There are two mobile offerings for QGIS users who want to take their work out to the field. Both QField and MerginMaps had a strong presence at the User Conference, causing a lot of excitement and buzz in the audience.

Contributor Meeting

As is traditional, the contributor meeting (which was held directly after the two day user conference) was full of workshops, sessions, and spontaneous get-togethers to facilitate the exchange between community members, including sessions on:

• Onboarding Day
• Plans for the certification programme
• Getting around in the QGIS community
• Translating QGIS 
• Documentation system and process
• Editing the documentation online on GitHub
• Building documentation on your local machine and using Git to make a pull request (submission)
• Compiling QGIS
• Making your first pull request to QGIS
• Create QGIS issues and feature requests
• OGC API in QGIS
• QGIS vision
• QGIS website update

From the QGIS community we would like to extend a huge ‘thank you!’ to the local organising team who hosted a flawless event and worked so hard to make sure everyone had the best experience possible. Thank you and see you next year!

Dear QGIS Community,

We are very pleased to announce that this year’s round of grants is now available. The call is open to anybody who wants to make a contribution to QGIS funded by our grant fund, subject to the call conditions outlined in the application form.

The deadline for this round is in four weeks, on 2nd May 2023.

There are no new procedures in 2023. Please note the following guidelines established in previous years: 

• The proposal must be submitted as a ‘QEP’ (QGIS Enhancement Proposal) issue in the repo: https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals (tagged as Grant-YEAR). Following this approach will allow people to ask questions and provide public feedback on individual proposals.
• Proposals must clearly define the expected final result so that we can properly assess if the goal of the proposal has been reached.
• The project budgets should account for PR reviewing expenses to ensure timely handling of the project-related PRs and avoid delays caused by relying on reviewer volunteer time. 
• In the week after the QEP discussion period, the proposal authors are expected to write a short summary of the discussion that is suitable for use as a basis on which voting members make their decisions. 

The PSC of QGIS.ORG will examine the proposals and has veto power in case a proposal does not follow guidelines or is not in line with project priorities.

For more details, please read the introduction provided in the application form.

We look forward to seeing all your great ideas for improving QGIS!

On January 16th, we launched the largest crowd-funding call for QGIS.ORG so far. Our goal was to increase sustaining membership contributions and bring the total member contributions up to €200k. And today, we are happy to announce that, thanks to all our new and returning sustaining members, we have succeeded and even exceeded our goal: raising a total of €206.5k in contributions for 2023.

In total, 42 new sustaining members have answered our call – these are in addition to already existing sustaining members, who started their memberships in previous years – some of them already many years in a row.

We are particularly happy that we are able to welcome our new and first Flagship sustaining member Felt.

A huge thank you also goes to our returning sustaining member, the Office of Public Works (Ireland) who have increased their contribution to the large membership level.

We are also delighted to welcome seven new medium sustaining members, including the first two university institutes supporting us on this level:

• Institut Dr. Nowak GmbH, Germany
• Bohannan Huston, New Mexico, USA
• University of Zurich, Department of Geography, Switzerland
• Idrostudi srl, Italy
• ETH Zurich, Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, Switzerland
• IC Infraconsult AG, Switzerland
• BBOÖ Breitband Oberösterreich GmbH, Austria

And finally, our thanks go out to the stunning 33 new small sustaining members from all over the world:

• Pacific Geomatics Limited, Canada
• Helix Resources Limited, Australia
• Sand Hill Geographic, Virginia, United States
• GIS Pro Western Australia
• The Spatial Distillery Company, Victoria, Australia
• Qwast-GIS, The Netherlands
• CEICOL, Colombia
• QGIS user group Norway
• Robex resources, Quebec, Canada
• analyGIS GmbH, Switzerland
• CartoExpert, France
• addresscloud, UK
• Baugeologie und Geo-Bau-Labor AG, Switzerland
• Spatial Thoughts LLP, India
• Centremaps, UK
• Geoideal, Colombia
• theworksLA, California, United States
• SoftWater s.r.l., Italy
• menz umweltplanung, Germany
• Oy Arbonaut Ltd, Finland
• ZevRoss Spatial Analysis, New York, United States
• Ecophylla Consulting, Ontario, Canada
• DeBeer&DeVos BV, Belgium
• Reuther NetConsulting, Germany
• H13, Denmark
• Rockwater Pty Ltd, Australia
• BGU Dr. Brehm & Grünz GbR, Germany
• Julie’s Data, Ukraine
• LökPlan Conze & Cordes GbR, Germany
• OSGeo Oceania, Australia
• b-data GmbH, Switzerland
• PMA (Property Market Analysis LLP), UK
• ROBVQ (Regroupement des organismes de bassins versants du Québec), Canada

So February came and went without us sharing our monthly plugin update. That means, this post lists a whopping 32 new plugins that have been published in the QGIS plugin repository in February and March.

Here’s the quick overview in reverse chronological order. If any of the names or short descriptions piques your interest, you can find the direct link to the plugin page in the table below the screenshot.

BPEJ a RÚIAN pro SWAT

Plugin stahuje a upravuje data BPEJ a upravuje data RÚIAN pro model SWAT

PyQGIS Resource Browser

A Qt resource browser right into QGIS.

Austria Weather API

QGis connection to Geosphere Austria API

DataSud

Plugin pour QGIS 3 fournissant un accès simple aux flux de géographiques WMS et WFS des données OpenStreetMap publiées sur DataSud pour la Région Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur.

CIGeoE Converge Lines

Creates a point of convergence of lines within a selected area.

Delete all

QGIS plugin to delete all groups and layers from the layers widget

CPR

CPR (Colour Pattern Regression)

Remote DB Plugin

Manage and open SSH connections to remote database servers

MOJXML Loader

This plugin is made for Japanese users. It converts Japanese “MOJ Map XML” (land registration polygon data) into geospatial formats. 法務省登記所備付地図データ（地図XML）の変換や読み込みを行います。

Custom TitleBar

Configure what is displayed in the title bar (QGIS full version, sha, project name, …)

ScienceFlightPlanner

This plugin helps to create scientific flight plans.

LRS-Editor

Editor for Linear Referencing Systems

CRS Guesser

Guesses unknown CRS for layers

Extractor

Extractor allows for the extraction of data from raster images based on point, line, and polygon vectors and the application of zonal statistics. Its usefulness lies in its ability to work with a range of raster sources, making it ideal for time series analysis and landscape studies.

Coverage Builder

Create rectangles to use as an input layer for atlas generation.

Gamepad Navigation

Navigate 2D and 3D map canvases using gamepad controllers (Playstation, Xbox, PC, etc.)

Street Facing Side

Identifies the side of the polygon (e.g. parcels or building footprints) that is facing the street, river, or any other line vector file type. Outputs a new line feature for each polygon feature, based on what side of the polygon was identified as the ‘street-facing’ side. Requires both an input polygon layer and input line layer.

Dichtheitsprüfung Checker

With this plugin, the raw data from leak tests (.sew files) can be read and checked for content.

Limburg Flood Impact

Limburg Flood Impact Plugin.

Walidator plików GML

Walidacja i kontrola plików GML baz: BDOO, BDOT10k, PRNG, GESUT, EGiB, BDOT500

infas LT Geocoder

Geocoding with infas LT Geocoder

CRAIG

Plugin pour QGIS 3 fournissant un accès simple aux flux de données géographiques WMS/WMTS et WFS du CRAIG et d’autres ressources géographiques utiles en région Auvergne Rhône-Alpes.

Feature Nodes Z Tag

Tags the nodes of a feature with it’s Z value

QRestart

A plugin that allows users to restart the QGIS.

Sewerage Designer

The Sewerage Designer computes the required sizing and depth of a stormwater sewer system.

Check4SEC

Simulator of the Check4SEC validations in SEC and creation of GML file. (ES) Simulador del validador Check4SEC de la SEC y creación de fichero GML.

QChatGPT

A plugin integration between QGIS and openai API.

Reloader

Reload selected layer(s).

Plot grid tool

This plugin create a grid file from a plot boundary file

Indiana LiDAR

This plugin helps you access Indiana LiDAR data products.

Raster Volume Comparison

Calculates the difference in volume between two raster layers

Save_DXF

This plugin exports a laye to DXF file

With the QGIS Grant Programme 2022, we were able to support four proposals that are aimed to improve the QGIS project, including software, infrastructure, and documentation. The following reports summarize the work performed in the proposals. 

1. Support building QGIS application on Qt 6 (#243) – Report
   In addition to the original plan of porting the “gui” and “app” libraries to Qt 6, it was possible to complete also the “3d” and “server” libraries. We now are at a stage where the majority of QGIS builds and runs without any significant issues on Qt 6. The Github CI setup has been updated to also run the C++ tests for gui, app, server and 3d, and the majority of these have been fixed so that they pass on the Qt 6 builds too. In addition, some tests which were failing under Qt 6 revealed some real QGIS bugs which have been fixed in the process of this work. (So there’s a direct benefit for the existing Qt 5 builds too!).
2. Add SQL Logging in the debugging/development panel (#242) – Report
   When debugging or developing a QGIS algorithm or a QGIS plugin and when investigating performances of a particular layer it is often useful to view the SQL commands that QGIS sends to the backend. The SQL logging was implemented for Postgres, GeoPackage, Spatialite and Oracle data providers.
3. QGIS setting registry follow-up (#245) – Report
   The work can mainly be seen here PR qgis/QGIS#51295 with the proposed approach to register settings in a hierarchical and organized way, without too much complexity in the API to actually use the settings.
   To have a clean approach, some keys have been renamed. There is a compatibility handling (both forward and backward). The GUI implementation will be worked on during the HF in NL this spring.
4. Fix handling of provider default value clauses/Autogenerate/nextval(…) handling (#247) – Report
   The bulk of these changes landed in the QGIS 3.28 release. A quick way to demonstrate on of the issues fixed is: open a Geopackage file, start editing the layer, add some features to it, but don’t save the edits, then right click the edited layer and try to save it to a different file. On older QGIS releases you’ll be spammed with a number of error messages because we tried to write a string value of “Autogenerate” into a number field for all the newly created features. On QGIS 3.28 this all just works as expected, with no errors encountered.

Thank you to everyone who participated and made this round of grants a great success and thank you to all our sustaining members and donors who make this initiative possible!

It is with great pleasure that we would like to welcome Felt as our first flagship sustaining member!

Felt plays a revolutionary role for those who work with maps daily by making maps and spatial analysis more accessible across organizations through modern web-based collaboration features. Teams across planning, tech, infrastructure, consulting, environmental sciences and more are using QGIS & Felt to access the power of desktop GIS alongside the ease of modern web-based collaboration features, including:

• Customize your maps with browser-based tools: draw, drop pins, leave notes, trace boundaries, find routes — even add a video — all just point and click
• Collaborate with your team on the same map in the moment, or hours and miles apart
• Invite one, a few, or the whole world to see your work with precise access controls

Have a look yourself and discover the inspiring maps shared by Felt users.

We are particularly excited about this collaboration since Felt users regularly pair the analytical power of QGIS with the team-based sharing and collaboration features of Felt. Together, we contribute to a winning ecosystem of easy-to-use map-making tools for modern teams and organizations.

Felt’s support for QGIS helps us reach the goal of a stable financial basis to ensure another 20+ years of sustainable development and keep bringing the most user-friendly GIS to users worldwide.

We are pleased to announce the release of QGIS 3.30 ‘s-Hertogenbosch!

Installers for all supported operating systems are already out. QGIS 3.30 comes with tons of new features, as you can see in our visual changelog. QGIS 3.30 ‘s-Hertogenbosch is named after this year’s QGIS user conference and contributor meeting host city.

We would like to thank the developers, documenters, testers and all the many folks out there who volunteer their time and effort (or fund people to do so). From the QGIS community we hope you enjoy this release! If you wish to donate time, money or otherwise get involved in making QGIS more awesome, please wander along to qgis.org and lend a hand!

QGIS is supported by donors and sustaining members. A current list of donors who have made financial contributions large and small to the project can be seen on our donors list. If you would like to become a sustaining member, please visit our page for sustaining members for details. Your support helps us fund our six monthly developer meetings, maintain project infrastructure and fund bug fixing efforts.

QGIS is Free software and you are under no obligation to pay anything to use it – in fact we want to encourage people far and wide to use it regardless of what your financial or social status is – we believe empowering people with spatial decision making tools will result in a better society for all of humanity.

In a few weeks, our 25th Contributor Meeting and International QGIS User Conference uc2023.qgis.nl will take off on 18 April.

Register or become a speaker yourself. For details on all the exciting opportunities to get involved, check out the introduction by our awesome organizing team: