Between April and May there were 33 new plugins published in the QGIS plugin repository.
Highlights
We would like the use this opportunity to highlight two plugins, Viper (QGIS snake Clone) and Active Break.
Viper allows to emulate in QGIS canvas the popular game Snake, providing a fun time and a bit of nostalgia for the “older” users. However it goes further than that, as it serves the purpose of teaching about geospatial concepts such as geometry objects (points, polygons) with their properties and methods, spatial indexing in the form of R-Tree, but also programming in QGIS, as well as other aspects.
On a more serious tone, if it can be said that, we present Active Break, a plugin that “simply” presents messages at specific time intervals, which can be personalized by the user and range from the more technical such as “save your project”, personal or motivational like quotes from hundreds of people on multiple subjects, or perhaps the most important, routinely reminders to take a break, relax or go have lunch. This considering the long hours we spent daily in front of the computer, with all the physical and mental health, as well as social implications. Congratulations on both authors!
Overview
Here follows the quick overview in reverse chronological order. If any of the names or short descriptions catches your attention, you can find the direct link to the plugin page in the table below:
| Swiss GeoAdmin Bulk Geocoder |
| Bulk geocoding of Swiss building addresses using the geocoding service of geo.admin.ch, the portal of swisstopo. |
| EDAC Tools |
| A toolbox containing various Python-based tools developed by the Earth Data Analysis Center (EDAC) at the University of New Mexico. |
| CompareClassA |
| Compare two datasets of GPKG pointZ geometry based on french legislation formatting “class A”. |
| Stats By Polygon |
| This plugin creates plots for statistics of raster bands based on selected polygon feature. |
| UMap |
| This plugin enables any user to transform a stack of digital bathymetric data terrain models into a bathymetric community map. |
| SkyGIS |
| This is a plugin to download files from Skydeck, process it in QGIS and upload the results back to Skydeck portal. |
| Amazon Location Service |
| QGIS Plugin for Amazon Location Service. |
| CIGeoE Copy Paste Features 3D |
| Copy and paste features from one layer to another of the same type preserving original Z coordinate. |
| CIGeoE Translate To Fit To Adjacent Polygon |
| Do a polygon translation to the nearest polygon, by making it coincide their nearest vertices. |
| CIGeoE Toggle Vertex Visibility |
| Toggle vertex’s marker visibility. |
| CIGeoE Reverse Line |
| Reverses a selected line. |
| UA Coordinates Transformation |
| Трансформація (перерахунок) координат вектороного шару через офіційне API Державної геодезичної мережі. Translation: Transformation of vector layer coordinates through the official API of the State Geodetic Network. |
| GeoBasis_Loader |
| GeoBasis_Loader (Open Data GeoBasisdaten). |
| Viper (QGIS snake clone) |
| Snake clone using vector layers and QGIS canvas. |
| jpdata |
| Download and load various data of Japan. |
| S2 Toolkit |
| Tools for the S2 Geometry. |
| PL-2000 |
| Konwerter współrzędnych punktu układu PL-ETRF2000 do układu PL-2000. Translation: PL-ETRF2000 point coordinate converter to PL-2000 system. |
| Luftbildfinder NRW |
| Find and display aerial images (German State of North Rhine-Westphalia) – Luftbilder finden und laden für NRW. |
| UDef-ARP Plugin |
| UDef-ARP for QGIS. |
| Route Builder |
| “Route Builder” is a QGIS plugin with a set of tools that calculates shortest routes in street networks using data from OpenStreetMap (OSM) and using the A* (A Star) algorithm. Users can define a region, define origin and destination points (O/D) using the coordinates collected by the plugin, these coordinates of the nodes and thus calculate the shortest route between them. |
| Transition-QGIS |
| Access a Transition transit planning server data and functionalities from QGIS. |
| PG service parser |
| View, edit or copy PG service entries. |
| Skråfotos |
| Opslag på Dataforsyningens Skråfotos. Translation: Notice on Dataforsyningens Skråfotos. |
| OD_LSA_Loader (Open Data Land Sachsen Anhalt Loader) |
| OD_LSA_Loader (Open Data Land Sachsen Anhalt Loader) – Plugin Deprecated |
| QuickWebViewer |
| Publish your QGIS project online as web map. |
| ActiveBreak |
| ActiveBreak is a plugin for QGIS that emits messages at the top of the canvas at time intervals from the start of work, reminding the user to take an active break, take their lunch and/or reminders indicating to save their QGIS project. |
| QGIS Shoreline Change Analysis Tool |
| A plugin for Shoreline Change Analysis (SCA). |
| eMapTools |
| This plugin propose retention trees and riparian buffer zones based on ecological values. |
| NextGIS OGRStyle |
| Capture OGR Style in ONE click to paste them into a spreadsheet. |
| landXMLtoDB_Free |
| Provides LandXML to Database tools, etc, storing to PostGIS initially, later to Oracle and MS SQL. |
| RRR-reader |
| Reads RRR files. |
| Spatial Analyzer |
| Spatial Analysis Tools. |
| Japan GSI Point Collector |
| This plugin collects xyz points from gsi website. The selection should be within Japan boundary. |
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