Thanks to the hard work of Giuseppe Sucameli, the supervision of Martin Dobias, and
the support of Google for its Summer of Code initiative, DB Manager is now available.
DB Manager's aim is to merge some of QGIS DB plugins, e.g. PGManager, SLManager,
RT_Sql_Layer. At the moment it works with both PostgreSQL and SQLite databases. It displays list of tables, info about the selected table. In addition,
allows the user to rename/delete tables through its GUI and run query on the selected
The french branch of the OSGEO is organizing a day of exchanges around
QGIS the 26 october 2011 in Paris. The event will be hosted by the
ministry of ecology and envelopment (MEDDTL) and is sponsored by 3Liz,
C-S, Camptocamp, Oslandia.
There will be presentations of use cases, technical features, lightning
talks. The number of seats is limited to ~100, lunch and coffee are
covered by the registration fee (20€, 10€ for members).
You can see the program and register online at :
Faunalia is now listed on Ordnance Survey's sample data download page as a Developer Partner, providing free and open source software for working with OS MasterMap Topography Layer.
QGIS Workshop Tutorial for OSGIS 2011 can be downloaded from
"E-learning for the Open Geospatial Community (ELOGeo)" website.
The ELOGeo project is a JISC-funded project based at the Centre for
Geospatial Science, the University of Nottingham in partnership with the
Mimas Centre of Excellence at the University of Manchester.
To download a PDF version of our tutorial, follow this link.
A getting started guide has been created for Ordnance Survey Translator, a plugin which allows Ordnance Survey MasterMap to be easily loaded and styled in Quantum GIS.
Open Source Geospatial Software pre-conference workshop, in association with Faunalia (http://www.faunalia.co.uk) Tuesday 10th April (2pm) - Wednesday 11th April (12noon)
Faunalia and Dauntsey Parish Council Drainage Board ran a joint training course on getting started with Quantum GIS and Ordnance Survey OpenData / MasterMap.
Ordnance Survey Translator, a Quantum GIS plugin for converting Ordnance Survey MasterMap GML files into other formats, has been updated. See the full news article for a list of new features.