QOD June 2021
This month QGIS Open Day is dedicated to maps and more in QGIS.
Simply watch the Youtube Livestream and comment on the day, or catch the recording if you can't make the live session.
To keep up to date with QGIS Open Day events, please join the Telegram channel.
Virtual events will be taking place online (see links below) and in the telegram chat room, and with many events also being live-streamed on YouTube. See the individual event descriptions below for an indication of where to join each event.
QGISOpenDay 25th June 2021
| No | Name | Time | Coordinator | Country | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Qasketball: spatial analysis and visualization of basketball with QGIS | 10h00 UTC | Ben Hur Pintor | Philippines | English |
| 2 | Azores Land Use Cartography automation: unveiling the tricks. | 11h00 UTC | Alexandre Neto | Portugal | English |
| 3 | LIDAR and QGIS - beginning of beautiful friendship - vol.3 | 12h30 UTC | Tibor Lieskovsky | Slovakia | English |
| 4 | QGIS Actions Deep Dive | 13h30 UTC | Ujaval Gandhi | India | English |
| No | Name | Role | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amy | Session planning and speaker coordination | Contact Amy via the Telegram Channel username @Amz |
| 2 | Zinzi | Publishing platform and workflows | Contact Zinzi via the Telegram Channel username @zinzixakayi |
| 3 | Nicholas | Event promotion - via mailing lists | Contact Nicholas via the Telegram Channel username @Nsunhing |
| 4 | Seabilwe | Social Media | Contact Seabilwe via the Telegram Channel username @Seabilwe |
| 5 | Victoria | Support | Contact Victoria via Telegram Channel username @Victoria Neema |
| 6 | Thabiso | Support | Contact Thabiso via Telegram Channel username @Thabiso Hlatshwayo |
Time: 25 June 2021 10h00 UTC.
Duration: 60 mins
Venue: Youtube Live Stream Link
Presenter: Ben Hur Pintor
The presentation is about how QGIS (and other open source tools) can be used for the spatial analysis and visualization of basketball games. It will talk about the data needed and common analysis and visualization tools that can be used for the task. In particular, it will show a case study of the University Athletics Association of the Philippines Men's Basketball Tournament. Check out the image below for an example.
Time: 25 June 2021 11h00 UTC.
Duration: 60 mins
Venue: Youtube Live Stream Link
Presenter: Alexandre Neto
Cartography is not just layer styling, labeling, and layout design. This presentation is about the production of Azores Land Use Cartography (COSA18) using QGIS and PostGIS. The project included the 9 Azorean islands, covered by 34 sheets in 3 different levels of detail (similar to CORINE Land Cover levels). As a bonus, two coordinate systems were used and not all sheets were regular or of the same size. Fortunately, QGIS features such as the atlas, expressions, and data-defined properties, allowed me to fully automate the process. The presentation is primarily about the small "tricks" that saved my day(s).
Time: 25 June 2021 12h30 UTC
Duration: 60 mins
Venue: Youtube Live Stream Link
Presenter: Tibor Lieskovsky
Next in a series of sessions demonstrating LiDAR visualization techniques used for cultural heritage.and the exporting of visualizations for computers and mobile devices. AS well as the optimalization of LiDAR data in raster form (because they are huge).
Time: 25 June 2021 13h30 UTC
Duration: 60 mins
Venue: Youtube Live Stream Link
Presenter: Ujaval Gandhi
QGIS allows you to define custom Actions on map layers. This action can run commands or python code when the user clicks on a feature. This talk will cover QGIS Actions in detail along with demos on how you can harness its power to automate GIS workflows. We will focus on Python Actions and go through various examples of implementing new functionality and automating tasks with just a few lines of code.
- Managing Imagery Collections: Using a tile index and a few lines of PyQGIS, set up an action to browse and view selected rasters in QGIS.
- Group Selection: Define an action to query and select multiple features with just a single click
- Reverse Geocoding: Reverse Geocode an address with your street network layer
- Display Street-level Imagery: Build an action to display geotagged street-level imagery from Mapillary in QGIS
- Automating Data QA: Create an action to update an attribute field of a feature automatically
You can do this too! We really encourage others to follow our initiative, using the wiki page link below to organise your plans (just add a section below the last one). You can host virtual meetups in the Jitsi room, plan your next steps to take QGIS further down the road to world domination and much much more. We encourage language and region-specific huddles, documentation improvement sessions, bug fixing, making beautiful maps, and working together to do amazing things with QGIS.
We would really love to see more events offered from our country user groups and broader user base. The content can be at any skill level and in any language you like, and the times can overlap if needed. So please feel free to organise your activities on this wiki page. The QGIS Open Day is also an ideal time to hold virtual country user group meet-ups - please share your activities on the open day schedule, so that even people from outside of your country user group can benefit from your presentations. Contact me (see below) if you need help adding your events to the wiki page.
You can spread the word! We have prepared the following materials so that you may easily copy and paste the relevant contents to publish on your media platform of choice to let others know about these awesome events.
About QGIS Open Day
Dear QGIS Users
On Friday, 25th June 2021 we will be holding our monthly QGIS Open Day! What is a QGIS Open Day you may be wondering to yourself? It is an initiative to replace the wonderful community meetups we used to hold every six months when times were different. Like our in-person meetings, the event is organised on the principle of self-organisation and community participation.
Programme
- QGIS Maps and More
Where to watch
Please see the event wiki page at QOD-June-2021 Wiki for all the details of times and links for participation.
Many of the events may be recorded and made available to users who couldn't make the live events. Youtube live streams should automatically be available for catch-up viewing. Be sure to check back here for updates!
- Event:Youtube channel Link
Participants are kindly reminded to please read and observe our QGIS Code of Conduct and Diversity Statement to make these events a great experience for everyone!
Please contact me, Zinziswa Xakayi by email zeighxakayi@gmail.com or via the Telegram Channel username @zinzixakayi if you have any queries or need help setting up events.
We look forward to seeing you there!