The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (German Society for Technical Cooperation) or GTZ has put out a request for proposals and quotations for building a QGIS plugin.

GTZ is a private international enterprise owned by the German Federal Government, specializing in technical cooperation for sustainable development with worldwide operation. It primarily works for public sector organizations and is headquartered in Eschborn, Germany. It mainly operates on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). Further clients are other departments of the government, international donors like the European Union, World Bank or the United Nations, partner countries and the private sector. GTZ works on a public-benefit basis. All surpluses generated are channeled back into its own international cooperation projects for sustainable development. The GTZ provides services in the following areas of sustainable development: Economic Development and Employment; Government, Democracy and Poverty Reduction; Education, Health and Social Security; Environment and Infrastructure & Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.

Required Deliverables

A QGIS plugin for an automated process to manually classify land types from satellite imagery for land use mapping based on visual identification.

Please see the attached pdf for complete details.

Contact: Ricardo Aravena ( ricardo.aravena@gtz.de ) for more details.

Submission Deadline: 4 Feb 2011

Two QGIS related GSOC 2009 projects have been approved:

1. Label placement for Quantum GIS - Martin Dobias
2. OssimPlanet integration in Grass and Qgis - Massimo Di Stefano

Congratulations to Martin and Massimo. Other projects approved under the OSGeo umbrella can be found on the GSOC website at:

Thank you to our sponsors and contributors

The QGIS 2009 hackfest was a great success in a large part due to the various people and institutions that aided us.

We would firstly like to give our heartfelt thanks to Otto Dassau who organised the event and ran around making sure that everything ran smoothly for the event, and to thank Larissa Junek who kept 10 hungry hackers plied with delicious apple pie and cake.

In my last tutorial I showed you how to create temporary objects on the map canvas. Today I will giving you a basic introduction to using QgsFeatureAttribute - which allows your to retrieve the attributes for a feature in a vector layer. The attributes are descriptive data related to the geometry of the feature.

Note this is a repeat post since the original copy of this article disappeared from the blog.

First lets take a look at what we will achieve in this tutorial.

In my last tutorial I showed you how to label vector features on the map canvas. Today we will take a brief look at how to add a raster map to the canvas.

Note his is a repeat post since the original version of this tutorial disappeared from this blog.

QGIS 0.9.1 is on its way in early December. For the month of November we are holding a Bug Fixing Triage to squash as many bugs as we can. If you would like to partipate by claiming some bugs, please contact me with your bug id's at tim@linfiniti.com. Happy bug hunting!

Hi, my name is Brendan. This is my first blog post.

QGIS developers might remember me from my work on the WMS provider and the vertex editing functionality around the middle of 2006. Then I dropped out for a while.

Well, Easter afforded me a little spare time to revisit the QGIS code base. I noticed that so I started having a go at turning the Qt 4.2 Graphics View framework into a first class provider of map rendering to QGIS.

About 4 months ago my hard drive and various other gubbins in my MacBook died. I spent then next three and a half or so months running the laptop off an external hard drive which has a bootable backup I had fortuitously made two weeks before the drive crash. After the MacBook was repaired a few weeks ago, I was handed back a clean slate in terms of the operating system install.

First of all thanks for the many comments and tests that people are carrying out on the windows test builds - we've had over 2000 downloads of the snapshots builds and the preview2 release for windows (combined) so I guess there must really be people using windows OS out there. :-)

Lorenzo on IRC (nick: ciccio81) was looking for a high level diagram of QGIS for a university presentation on GIS and I realised we dont really have one! So I spent an hour or so knocking this together (open the image on its own for a non scaled version):