This month we’re covering real-time QGIS collaboration, two cheat sheets on cloud-native formats for QGIS 4, a telecom case study, and a hands-on MOLUSCE webinar on April 14.
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QGIS is a powerful GIS tool, but standard setups break down when more than one person works on the same data. Watch how you can easily connect it to an open-source server layer, providing permissions management, centralized storage, web publishing, mobile sync, and version control.
YouTube video | Read the article
We built this functionality for ourselves and can now share it with you. Use a single link to present a curated set of maps and resources to a team or a client. If you’ve ever sent five separate map URLs for one project, this is the fix. Available for all subscription tiers, including free.
If you’re preparing for offline field deployment and need a set of tiles developed to your specification, we have two suggestions.
QTiles generates a raster tileset from any QGIS project for the zoom levels you specify – ready to export as MBTiles, PMTiles, or a NextGIS Mobile package. Version 2.0 adds PMTiles support, new extent tools, and full QGIS 4 compatibility.
Get QTiles | QTiles documentation
If you don’t have the source data or time to generate tiles yourself, NextGIS Data lets you order pre-built tile packages for any custom area. Select your region and zoom range and receive a ready-to-deploy tileset.
Network engineers have data. Sales teams and executives need decisions. We built Connect Force for a global telecom equipment vendor to bridge that gap – POI-based analysis, competitive comparisons, and shareable reports, all on a map.
Now that QGIS 4.0 is out, we have launched a series of cheat sheets on cloud-native formats – the formats that let QGIS work with large datasets directly from cloud storage without preprocessing or full-file downloads. Each PDF cheat sheet comes with sample data for practice.
COG is the format that lets QGIS fetch only the portion of a raster it needs via HTTP range requests – no more downloading multi-gigabyte files to view a subset.
Download cheat sheet | Download sample data
FlatGeobuf does the same for vector data – a binary format with a built-in spatial index that supports streaming and HTTP range requests, significantly faster than Shapefile and GeoPackage for large datasets.
Download cheat sheet | Download sample data
MOLUSCE (Modules for Land Use Change Simulations) is an open-source land cover change analysis module for QGIS, developed by NextGIS. Join us for a live walkthrough of the complete MOLUSCE workflow: data preparation, model calibration, simulation, and validation, with a focus on the latest updates to the plugin.
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