This year’s FOSS4G edition took place in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. As every year, Sourcepole was supporting this major event as a sponsor. We would like to thank for all the interesting discussions and feedback to our presentations!

The Web Mercator grid as used by OSM, Google, etc. is the de-facto standard for serving web maps. But not many people maintain data in a Web Mercator reference system. People usually use either a locally optimized SRS or store their data in WGS84.

Reporting back from FOSS4G 2017 in Boston, which started with the usual QGIS plugin programming workshop, this time at the Harvard University campus.

In zwei Wochen beginnt die alljährliche deutschsprachige FOSSGIS Konferenz zum Theme Open Source GIS und OpenStreetMap in Passau.

The AutoForm plugin for QGIS automatically sets the edit widget type for the fields of a selected layer based on their data types and foreign keys. This is in order to save the user time they may need to spend on manually editing these widgets.