Free and Open Source GIS Ramblings

A long-standing feature request in the QGIS repo has been an option for a ribbon-style GUI to replace the plethora of toolbars that usually characterize the top rows of any QGIS window.

For a while now, my preferred way of installing QGIS has been from conda-forge.

I’ve been testing Codeberg for over a year now, with Trajectools being the largest repo that has already moved its headquarters from Github to Codeberg.

The new MovingPandas release 0.23 has just landed in pypi and conda-forge and I want to share with you two highlights: New HTML representations The new HTML representations for Trajectory & TrajectoryCollection objects aim to make interactive data explora…

For many years now, we have been enjoying the basemap.at service with it’s various basemap options (color, gray, with/without labels, …) in WMTS and vector tiles.

It’s been a couple of busy weeks, with the QGIS 4.2 release and meetings and conferences all over the place before a few, hopefully quieter, weeks of summer break.

Finally it’s here: Jupyter notebooks inside QGIS.

The journey continues: QgsArrowIterator is now merged!

The conversation around Looking for better ways to convert between QGIS VectorLayer and (Geo)DataFrame is continuing over at https://fosstodon.org/@underdarkGIS/115442614331293320 What I’ve learned so far: QgsVectorLayer.as_geopandas() has landed in QGIS…

Plugin developers who want to use (Geo)Pandas-based functionality in their plugins regularly face the challenge of converting QGIS vector layers to (Geo)DataFrames.

The last time I preprocessed the whole GeoLife dataset, I loaded it into PostGIS.

The QGISUC2025 team has done an awesome job recording and editing the conference presentations.

The latest releases of MovingPandas and Trajectools come with many “under the hood” changes that aim to make your movement analytics faster: Instead of immediately creating a GeoPandas GeoDataFrame and populating the geometry column with Point objects, Mo…