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timlinux.bsky.social
Honorary QGIS Project Steering Committee Member. Co-founder Kartoza.com. I like to share, to learn, to walk, animals, Linux, NixOS, all things geospatial.
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🔮 What do you think the next year will hold for geospatial? Which areas are going to grow the most? What new companies are going to emerge? Here are my top 3 (share yours as well!):

Here are my top 5 geospatial Python libraries. Which would you add?

Have you seen it yet? We’re crowdfunding new 3D tools in QGIS to support open-source digital twins 🌍 🚀 20 days left — be part of it: 👉 www.lutraconsulting.co.uk/crowdfunding... #QGIS #DigitalTwins #OpenSourceGIS #Crowdfunding

QGIS User Conf 2025 videos have landed! The QGISUC2025 team has done an awesome job recording and editing the conference presentations. All "presentation" type talks where the presenter has accepted to be published are now available in a dedicated list on the QGIS Youtube channel. I also had […]

We're proud to announce that #Finland just launched theit new Topographic Data System built on #QGIS https://positio-magazine.eu/2025/06/finland-launches-modern-topographic-data-system-built-on-open-source-qgis/ #osgeo #gischat #gis #OpenSource

QGIS 3D Globe is coming in QGIS v3.44 - Available in the nightlies now! Built by @lutraconsulting.bsky.social and North Road - Thanks to the #Cesium Ecosystem Grant. #Cesium #3D #QGIS #foss4g #osgeo #sig #gis #digitaltwins #opensource

Check out @spatialthoughts's "QGIS Expressions Masterclass" workshop. This was first presented at the QGIS Conference 2025 in Sweden and now made available on his channel https://youtu.be/x3i9qyFGgcQ #QGIS #QGISUC2025 #GISChat

📰 #QGIS News: All of the #QGIS web sites just got their menus overhauled! 💁🏽 We hope you find navigating the QGIS web site a little easier with this update. The changes seek to harmonise the menus by grouping things more logically and removing less relevant menu items.

We've done it 🥳 Finally, there's a canonical paper on the #QGIS project, its history, workings, and challenges: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666389925001138 Thanks to @timlinux and @mbernasocchi for joining me in trying to tell the QGIS story 💚 #OSGeo #GISChat #GIScience

🚀 The new #QGIS Certification Programme Website is live! 🔍Easily find training courses: 🗺 Use an interactive map to find certified training providers. 📅 Check out upcoming courses offering official QGIS certification. 🫶🏼 Thanks Lova, @timlinux.bsky.social & others! 🔗 certification.qgis.org

Say hi to our latest branding overhaul updates at qgis.org We now have beautiful, dedicated pages for our changelog, sustaining members and certification initiatives! https://certification.qgis.org https://members.qgis.org https://changelog.qgis.org Thanks so much to Lova for all of this […]

Say hi to our latest branding overhaul updates at qgis.org #QGIS now sports beautiful, dedicated pages for our changelog, sustaining members and certification initiatives! certification.qgis.org members.qgis.org changelog.qgis.org

Lova (#QGIS Developer) has started a YouTube channel - please subscribe and follow his work if you want to support young GIS professionals trying to make a difference in the world! www.youtube.com/@xpirix

My daughter made this for me too…she is some kind of CapCut wizard :-)

I turned 56 today. Not much hair left but I can still do this…

Sprint retrospective from our professional #QGIS developers for the last two weeks: youtu.be/9bekJq9tRJU?...

Here is a nice blog post from Lindie, one of our #kartoza interns, on her efforts to shrink down her geopackage so she can publish it on the #QGIS hub. kartoza.com/blog/qgis/st...

Have you been wondering when #QGIS 4.0 will come out? Today we posted the roadmap to 4.0 on the QGIS blog! blog.qgis.org/2025/04/17/q...

Sprint retrospective updates from our #qgis team, Lova and Selma! youtu.be/_cQAROdx-bo?...

🥳 New versions of @movingpandas and #Trajectools have just landed: #MovingPandas 0.21.3 https://github.com/movingpandas/movingpandas/releases/tag/v0.21.3 :qgis: Trajectools 2.5 https://codeberg.org/movingpandas/trajectools/releases/tag/v2.5 🙏 Please update your MovingPandas install to get all […]

Some nice feedback from the #QGIS and #GIS training course our #kartoza team co-presented in Trieste, Italy last summer. climatecompatiblegrowth.com/major-achiev... Thanks to CCG, ICTP, SEforALL for another great collaboration!

Exciting new features in 3D on their way for the next #QGIS release thanks to the folks over at @lutraconsulting.bsky.social ! github.com/qgis/QGIS/pu...

🚀 QGIS Processing Scripts can now be shared via the QGIS Resources Hub! They’re efficient, lightweight tools for automating tasks in #QGIS, requiring #Python & #PyQGIS skills. Easier to develop than plugins! 💡 Learn more: hub.qgis.org/scripts/ #GIS #gischat

🌍 Afgelopen vrijdag verzorgden we vanuit #QGISNL 2 workshops tijdens de Open GIS 3D Studiedag, georganiseerd door #GemeenteAmsterdam, #VNG Realisatie & #OSGeoNL: @qwast-gis.com over puntenwolken & #3D visualisatie in #QGIS & Raymond Nijssen over 3D-data exporteren van QGIS naar #Blender3D.

Lova and Selma from the QGIS project team will be showing off some of their work on the QGIS websites and documentation in about 1h30 min. You can watch it here: youtube.com/live/g-NiQ8C...

#kartoza #QGIS interns showing off their 'Bob Ross' challenge here at the QGIS open day: youtube.com/live/SqcpSzn...

@qwast-gis.com care to review this? github.com/qgis/QGIS-Hu...

Set up #Jupyter Lab in #QGIS #Python Environment on Windows! 🎥 My new video shows you how to install it via OSGeo4W, add Python packages, and launch your notebooks. Perfect for classrooms! 📓 Watch here: https://youtu.be/rjw2YVuVL8c Inspired by this #GRASS tutorial […]

Our new #QGIS map gallery is shaping up nicely. Feel free to share your cartography work with us if you are using QGIS to make maps! hub.qgis.org/map-gallery/

📢 Reminder Editing LiDAR data in QGIS 3.42 and beyond webinar starts in 90 minutes 🕧 We can't wait to see you all! Link to the webinar: www.youtube.com/live/TRxW-g0... #QGIS #Lidar #dataprocessing #webinar

A Map🗺️Showing Landcover of Brazil 🇧🇷 2023,Dataset is from MapBiomas website (@mapbiomas.bsky.social) #Brazil #Brasil #latinamerica #America #landcover #dataviz #map #gischat #geospatial #qgis #b3d #blender

It’s Teatime Talk time! We are looking forward to a great talk from Catherine Njore on Cartography in Education in Kenya tonight.

Have you missed our webinar Editing LiDAR data in QGIS 3.42 and beyond? No worries! You can now watch the recording here: www.youtube.com/live/TRxW-g0...

Did you know that you can package a complete #QGIS :qgis: project (incl. all your layers and data) in a single #Geopackage file, e.g. to move it to another system? Practical examples, on the new hub: https://hub.qgis.org/geopackages/?sort=upload_date&order=desc #gischat #gis #mapping #cartography

Two years ago I had my ram sterilized because I was getting overwhelmed by the new arrivals in my little flock of sheep. This weekend, these arrived by immaculate conception (or a neighbour’s ram found its way into my land….)

Editing lidar data in QGIS 3.42 and beyond WEBINAR💻 Date: 🗓️ 20.3.2025 11:30 UTC Duration: 🕧30 minutes + 15 minutes Q&A session Link to the webinar (20.3.2025 11:30 UTC ): youtube.com/live/TRxW-g0... Add event to your calendar: bit.ly/4ivcATH #QGIS #Webinar #LiDAR #lutraconsulting

Jeremy from team #kartoza doing outreach at The University of Pretoria which hosted its annual NAS-EBIT Open Day! It is an event designed for high school students to explore the university's offerings, including available courses and academic opportunities.

QGIS.ORG Annual General Meeting 2024 – Minutes Now Available We are pleased to announce that the minutes from the QGIS.ORG Annual General Meeting (AGM) 2024 are now available for public review. Since the establishment of QGIS.ORG as a formal legal entity in 2016, we have held virtual AGMs to […]

Well looky here! Lova has added another nice feature to the #QGIS hub! hub.qgis.org/map-gallery/ You can now share maps. We are looking for high quality maps to show off in the map gallery on qgis.org and our plan is to source them from here. So please contribute your amazing work!

Trajectools is moving to Codeberg! The new home for Trajectools is: ➡️ https://codeberg.org/movingpandas/trajectools The GitHub repo remains as a writable mirror, for now, but the issue tracking is only active on Codeberg. More infos […]

TIL about https://mygeocommunity.org a public #GeoNode instance created by @timlinux and @hansakwast More details in Tim's #qgisopenday talk https://www.youtube.com/live/wgfmGVdn2ZQ?si=teZeLwi1DB3mI-d8 #GISChat #OSGeo

#QGIS Open Day - last session for the day starts in about 10 minutes: QGIS 3.42 Release Party Celebrate the release of QGIS 3.42 with us in this open agenda session where we look through the changelog and chat to participants about the new features in QGIS 3.42! youtube.com/live/WQw0i7q...