In this post, I hope to share some of my insights and resources from the conference.

The Location

The conference was hosted in the city of ‘s -Hertogenbosch (pronounced serto–hen–bos) -or Den Bosch for short – which is also the name of the latest release of QGIS version 3.30. I was able to reach a few days early and explore the city with some geo-friends and try out local delicacies.

The Venue

One of the unique aspects of the conference was the venue. The conference was hosted at Grasso – which is a refurbished factory now being used as an office building. It has large open spaces that was perfect for meeting people and informal discussions.

My Talk and Workshop

I delivered a talk on QGIS Applications for Urban and Regional Planning that showcase QGIS’s capabilities to solve problems in 6 different thematic areasLand Use Planning and Management, Crime Mapping and Analysis, Solid Waste Management, Urban Infrastructure and Utilities, Urban Transportation and Spatial Planning. As part of this project, I also released over 500 pages of open learning materials covering step-by-step instructions. [Presentation with links to resources].

I also launched a new workshop on QGIS Automation using Actions. This workshop covered Python Actions that allow you to customize and automate tasks in QGIS with a little bit of PyQGIS code. It is a good stepping stone for people who know Python and want to get into QGIS development. The workshop is now available publicly and is ideal for self-study. [Workshop Materials]

Resources

There isn’t a single place where all the conference talks and workshop resources were shared. I have a collected links to materials from the conference Telegram group and from the speakers themselves. I’ll keep adding links below as they become available.

Note: If you gave a talk at the conference and want to add a link here, please add a comment to the post. Some presentations are also available on Zenodo.

• Keynote: QGIS.org – The Importance of Seeding [slides1][slides2]
• Keynote: How QGIS assists the humanitarian work of Red Cross [slides]
• Talk: Publishing Maps with QGIS Server [slides]
• Talk: Spatially filtering your project’s layers for more efficient workflows [slides]
• Talk: QFieldCloud – efficient collaboration in the field [slides]
• Talk: News from QField – audio, video, map rotation and so much more [slides]
• Talk: Testing Spatial Data using QGIS and PyTest [slides]
• Talk: Mergin Maps platform for data collection [slides]
• Talk: From fieldwork to NDFF using Mergin Maps [slides]
• Talk: Advanced workflows with Mergin Maps [slides]
• Talk: Point clouds in QGIS: Now with Processing integration! [slides]
• Talk: Latest and future improvements in handling of 3D data in QGIS [slides]
• Talk: Association QGIS Peru promoting GIS networks in Latin America and Europe [slides]
• Talk: Monitoring-Crop-Water-Productivity-in-the-Mitidja-Plain,-Algeria-using-FAO-WaPOR-Data and-QGIS [slides]
• Talk: 2022 Brings Two New QGIS Books [slides]
• Talk: Equity Assessment for Transboundary Water Resources Management Using Remote Sensing Data and QGIS [slides]
• Talk: Presentation, instructions and data Making a promotion film using QGIS [slides]
• Talk: State of the PCRaster Tools plugin [slides]
• Talk: Imaging spectroscopy data in QGIS: Challenges and Opportunities [slides]
• Talk: Writing QGIS official documentation [slides]
• Talk: Finding small-scale sport spots in suburban areas using QGIS [slides]
• Workshop: QGIS Server With Python Superpowers [slides]
• Workshop: QGIS 3D, LiDAR Point Clouds and the Profile Tool [workshop materials]
• Workshop: Field Data Collection with QGIS and Mergin Maps [workshop materials]
• Workshop: QField and QFieldCloud – collaborate efficiently in the field [slides]
• Workshop: QGIS for Hydrological Applications [workshop materials]

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