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:
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.
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, 11th.
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.
We are extremely pleased to announce the 4 winning proposals for our 2023 QGIS.ORG grant programme:
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:
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!
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 |
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:
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 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!