Essen 2017 QGIS Hackfest
Another great QGIS hackfest is gone, and it’s time for a quick report. The location was the Linux Hotel, one of the best places where open source developers could meet, friendly, geek-oriented and when...
View ArticleA little QGIS3 Server wsgi experiment
Here is a little first experiment for a wsgi wrapper to QGIS 3 Server, not much tested, but basically working: #!/usr/bin/env python # Simple QGIS 3 Server wsgi test import signal import sys from cgi...
View ArticleBuilding QGIS master with Qt 5.9.3 debug build
Building QGIS from sources is not hard at all on a recent linux box, but what about if you wanted to be able to step-debug into Qt core or if you wanted to build QGIS agains the latest Qt release? Here...
View ArticleWelcome QGIS 3 and bye bye Madeira
Last week I’ve been in Madeira at the hackfest, like all the past events this has been an amazing happening, for those of you who have never been there, a QGIS hackfest is typically an event where QGIS...
View ArticleUse your android phone’s GPS in QGIS
Do you want to share your GPS data from your phone to QGIS? Here is how: QGIS comes with a core plugin named GPS Tools that can be enabled in the Plugin installer dialog: There are several ways to...
View ArticleQGIS 3 Server deployment showcase with Python superpowers
Recently I was invited by the colleagues from OpenGIS.ch to lend a hand in a training session about QGIS server. This was a good opportunity to update my presentation for QGIS3, to fix a few bugs and...
View ArticleCreate a QGIS vector data provider in Python is now possible
Why python data providers? My main reasons for having Python data provider were: quick prototyping web services why not? This topic has been floating in my head for a while since I decided to give...
View ArticleOpenCL acceleration now available in QGIS
What is OpenCL? From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCL: OpenCL (Open Computing Language) is a framework for writing programs that execute across heterogeneous platforms consisting of central...
View ArticleCome far funzionare la CNS USB token della Camera di Commercio con Ubuntu
Qualche nota sulla chiavetta USB token della camera di commercio (2018): prima di tutto il software fornito NON FUNZIONA, ho riscontrato un problema di conflitto di versione delle librerie Qt che...
View ArticleQGIS Abstract Connections API
The goal of the new API is twofold: provide a unified way to store and retrieve data provider connections in the QGIS settings provide an abstract set of methods to perform most common operation on...
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