Author Archives: Richard Duivenvoorde (Zuidt)

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In the Netherlands, currently there is a movement to make more and more data available for the general public. This is done via different services: WMS, WMTS and WFS services via a service called PDOK (Publieke Data Op de Kaart). While creating a plugin to list and load all those layers in QGIS I had […]

Last weekend there was a user on the QGIS users list mailinglist asking the question if QGIS had something similar like the .lyr file in the ESRI world. I knew that you could save and re-use the styling of a layer in QGIS by saving a style as a .qml style file. BUT I was […]

GDAL and OGR (www.gdal.org) libs from Frank van Warmerdam are famous software libraries which make it possible in the Open Source world to read and write a plethora of gis file formats. The nice thing about QGIS is that it using OGR and GDAL. So with every addition or enhancement in those libraries, QGIS itself […]

Most of the Windows users will install QGIS via the so called ‘stand alone installer’ which they download from download.qgis.org. For most of the users this is the easiest and most well know way to install a desktop program. But QGIS has another Windows install possibility. And that is a so called osgeo4w installation ( […]

Sometimes you find new QGIS functionality when a user asks you a question. Somebody working with house geometries was looking for a way to copy the same attributes to a set of selected houses. He was looking if certain types of houses in a city were usable for solarpanels on the roof. And often a […]

QGIS has something called forms to make it easier to change te attributes of an object. This article is about the use of these forms. As exampel we use a dutch dataset of the houses of the netherlands (BAG) which only contain geometries and not other attributes. These we are going to add ourself. We […]

Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.

Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.