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New Course: QField Quickstart

QField is an open-source Android based mobile data collection and/or viewing application that is tightly integrated with QGIS.

QGIS is used to set up the project using standard QGIS tools.

If the layers in your project are stored in a PostGIS database and a mobile data connection is available then changes made in QField are made directly to your database and visible in real-time to anyone that has a client to your database. This, in my view, is the mobile data collection killer app.

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New Course: Mobile GIS and Mapping Applications with Leaflet

Mobile GIS and Mapping Applications with Leaflet

This course is available now on Udemy.com. It will show you how to create a mobile specific mapping application using Leaflet.js including

  • Formatting your web application for mobile device screens
  • Understanding touch screens and adapting your web app for them
  • Making your web app look and feel like a native application
  • Detecting if the user is using a mobile device
  • Detecting if the user is online or not
  • Getting the most out of geolocation
  • Adding simple charts to your application
  • Using web storage to save the state of your application
  • Using web storage to store local versions of vector data
  • Using the Application Cache API to load a local version of your application for off-line use
  • Creating custom base maps with QGIS and QTiles
  • Adding custom base maps to the application cache for offline use

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