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OCT 19TH, 2020
Publish Image Tooltips on QGIS Cloud with QGIS 3

In 2015 we have already published a blog on this topic, which has met with great response. In the meantime a lot has changed in the QGIS world and with QGIS3 the 2015 manual can no longer be adopted 1:1. So I decided to write a new, revised blog article on this topic. A lot of people are using QGIS Cloud as a service with ready to use QGIS webclient. It’s very easy to publish data and share maps in this way. Read on


JUN 8TH, 2020
Responsive background maps with QGIS Cloud

Responsive background maps with QGIS Cloud Sourcepole QGIS Cloud is a great and convenient way to publish geodata as webmaps, to have a database and to manage everything from the desktop GIS. No need to run and maintain a server. Today our topic is handling of background maps in QGIS Cloud. QGIS Cloud maps are normally WMS maps delivered by QGIS Server. However most maps consist of a foreground (vector) theme and a background raster layer. Read on


MAY 25TH, 2020
GeoZero, a zero-copy API for processing geospatial data

Since a few years I get more and more obsessed about the performance of my daily work tools. It took a long time to realize how slow today’s software is, compared to similar software I was working with 20 or even 30 years ago. Software bloat compensating any hardware performance improvements seems to belong to the laws of nature.

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APR 30TH, 2020
Ansible Vault Rgrep

A script to grep ansible vault files

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APR 17TH, 2020
Adding a Host to known_hosts with Ansible

Ansible’s known_hosts module’s documentation is a bit scanty. Here’s a more complete example on how to use the module:

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