The Region of Umbria, Italy, sponsored 4 days of work to update QGIS Globe for current QGIS versions. Most of the functionality is working again and the globe is now compatible with osgEarth 1.0 up to 1.3. The bad news is, that the globe plugin is not working on Windows with OSGeo4W. It seems that one of the OSGeo4W libraries (GDAL?) is compiled with an incompatible MS compiler version. Christmas holidays are coming… Read on

In QGIS server, it is now possible to selectively exclude layers from WMS publication. These layers will be available only on the desktop and hidden from WMS clients. Similarly, print layouts can be excluded from WMS publication. Of course, these settings are conveniently accessible from the project properties dialog of QGIS (but you need to have a nightly build or a recent compile): Additionally, attributes per layer can be excluded from WMS or WFS publication in the vector properties dialog: Read on

For providing maps via WMS over the internet, it is important to generate image files with a small size. Because normally, most of the perceived WMS delay comes from transfering large images files over the internet (and not from map rendering itself). Therefore, QGIS server supports the conversion of png24 and png32 images into png8, therefore generating a file with only 1/3 resp. 1/4 of the original size (but with lower quality). Read on

This howto describes how to resize a root ext3 filesystem on a remote Debian wheezy server. This howto is not an original work but only an update of an older howto by Stefan @ https://thunked.org/. This version is specifically adapted to a server running Debian wheezy. DISCLAIMER: THERE IS A DECENT CHANCE THAT IF YOU FUCK THIS UP YOUR REMOTE SYSTEM SIMPLY WONT BOOT AT ALL. I URGE YOU TO TEST THIS LOCALLY BEFORE USING THIS METHOD ON A PRODUCTION SYSTEM. Read on

Mit QGIS Enterprise bietet Sourcepole ein komplettes Wartungs- und Support-Paket für eine Geodaten-Infrastruktur (GDI) an, die vollständig auf Open Source Software aufbaut. Der Kern des Angebotes ist die Quantum GIS Suite basierend auf QGIS Desktop, QGIS Server, QGIS WebClient und QGIS Mobile. dauerhafte Infrastruktur Investitionssicherheit hohe Verfügbarkeit GDI-Gesamtpaket Serviceorientierte Architektur keine Lizenzkosten schnelle Bug-Fixes regelmässige Updates kompetente Schulung Nutzen Sie die Vorteile der Hersteller-Unabhängigkeit. Reduzieren sie die Kosten ihrer Geodaten Infrastruktur da keine Software-Lizenzen anfallen. Read on