https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/sol-katz-award-for-geospatial-free-and-open-source-software-call-for-nominations-2026/

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation would like to open nominations for
the 2026 Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software.

The Sol Katz Award for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial
(FOSS4G) will be given to individuals who have demonstrated leadership
in the FOSS4G community. Recipients of the award will have contributed
significantly through their activities to advance open source ideals in
the geospatial realm.

The GRASS GIS 8.5.0 release provides more than 2750 improvements and fixes with respect to the release 8.4.2. Enjoy!

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Desde QGIS España os invitamos a participar en un nuevo workshop técnico sobre Qtiler, un innovador servidor WebGIS basado en Node.js y PyQGIS orientado a la publicación rápida y eficiente de servicios OGC directamente desde proyectos QGIS.

Durante la sesión, impartida por Abel Gonzalez (desarrollador principal de Qtiler y fundador de MundoGIS), veremos cómo publicar proyectos .qgs y .qgz como servicios WMS, WFS y WMTS, además de revisar la arquitectura de la plataforma, su interoperabilidad con clientes GIS y un taller práctico de instalación y despliegue.

Fecha: Miércoles 20 de mayo Hora: 15:00h

El enlace de acceso al workshop será enviado a las personas inscritas el día previo al evento.

• Información detallada
• Formulario de inscripción

La versión 2.7 de gvSIG Desktop incluye una mejora muy interesante en los mapas, que es la de poder personalizar los cajetines. Hasta las versiones anteriores, solo permitía insertar un cajetín con un número de filas y de columnas concretas, donde todas tenían el mismo tamaño, por lo que la única forma de crear cajetines personalizados era creando los rectángulos de forma individual, que hacía que fuese más complejo.

Con la nueva herramienta, una vez se inserta el cajetín con un número de filas y de columnas, existe la opción de editar dicho cajetín, de forma que se pueden combinar celdas, o dividirlas horizontal o verticalmente, permitiendo así tener celdas de diferentes tamaños para poder insertar la escala, el título, el logo de nuestra entidad, nuestra firma, etc.

En este vídeo se muestra su funcionamiento:

QGIS Camp España 2026 es solo posible gracias al esfuerzo de las empresas e instituciones. Si estás interesado en patrocinar el evento puedes descargarte nuestra guía para patrocinadores

I was anticipating a good day at Quad Rock and instead I flopped. I finished in 8:14:46. 186th out of 209 finishers, my poorest place at this race by a big margin. And I'd expected to match, if not exceed, my previous best. What explains this fiasco? My major problem was acute leg muscle cramping, but there were some minor issues as well.

https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/gdal-3-13-0-iowa-city-is-released/

Hi,

On behalf of the GDAL/OGR development team and community, I am pleased to announce the release of GDAL/OGR 3.13.0 “Iowa City”.

GDAL/OGR is a C++ geospatial data access library for raster and vector file formats, databases and web services. It includes bindings for several languages, and a variety of command line tools.

http://gdal.org/

The 3.13.0 release is a new feature release with the following highlights:

Een FOSS4G‑evenement draait om makers én gebruikers van open source GIS‑toepassingen. Het is de plek waar we laten zien wat er mogelijk is met vrije software, waar we elkaar inspireren en waar nieuwe ideeën ontstaan.

Ben je maker van een tool, plugin, workflow of dataset? Dan is dit hét podium om te laten zien wat er allemaal kan: van slimme scripts tot verrassende visualisaties.

The path toward efficient and modern water management is not traveled through technology alone, but through close technical and human collaboration. Recently, part of the iCarto team traveled to Eswatini to work hand-in-hand with the Joint River Basin Authorities (JRBA), achieving two fundamental milestones for the project’s sustainability.

This field visit was decisive in consolidating the system’s operability. Thanks to the joint effort, we succeeded in fulfilling the two main planned objectives:

Week 16 is over. It's six days to Quad Rock.

• 10 hours, 11 minutes all training

• 18 miles running

• 2,385 ft D+ running

I did a small set of hard running intervals, some steady running, and one last hilly run on the Quad Rock course with a friend on Friday. We pushed the pace on the upper half of the first climb, going up Towers Trail, and I was just a few seconds off my personal bests on those segments. 10/10 effort on Saturday won't be sustainable, but it was fun and a useful check on my fitness before the race. I'll completely recover from that by the end of the week, no problem.

You've probably seen links to "The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess" already. I've just finished the last installment. This is an excellent series of posts with many references. If we meet to talk about the industry, I'm almost certainly going to ask if you've read it.

This is bullshit about bullshit machines, and I mean it. It is neither balanced nor complete: others have covered ecological and intellectual property issues better than I could, and there is no shortage of boosterism online. Instead, I am trying to fill in the negative spaces in the discourse. “AI” is also a fractal territory; there are many places where I flatten complex stories in service of pithy polemic. I am not trying to make nuanced, accurate predictions, but to trace the potential risks and benefits at play.

QGIS Cloud makes it possible to edit geospatial data collaboratively directly from the web browser. This is especially useful when several users need to update the same dataset without installing or configuring a local QGIS project.

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Hace unos días lanzamos una encuesta para decidir si se celebraba y en caso afirmativo, cómo y dónde celebrar la próxima QGISesCamp 2026. Queríamos escuchar a la comunidad, contrastar opciones y tomar la decisión con criterio compartido. Y eso es exactamente lo que ha pasado.

Tras analizar los resultados, desde la Junta de la Asociación QGIS España hemos decidido que finalmente la QGISCamp España 2026 se celebrará en Madrid.

No ha sido una decisión automática. Ambas propuestas han estado muy igualadas, con argumentos diversos, pero entendemos que la propuesta ganadora, Madrid, ha destacado por su accesibilidad, su capacidad de acogida y las facilidades logísticas para organizar un encuentro cómodo, presencial y centrado en lo que de verdad importa: compartir conocimiento, experiencias y ganas de seguir construyendo comunidad en torno a QGIS.

Welp, I'm joining the ranks of the unemployed tech workers again.

As before, I'm in a good situation. I don't depend on my former employer for health insurance. I've got some severance and savings, my family is in good health, we have a roof over our heads, and I have good connections. I don't feel afraid.

But maybe I should? The job market is worse than last time this happened to me. I've seen experienced and talented people go for weeks and months without offers, and read some harrowing stories about what under-employment looks like for older tech workers these days.

After a little detour into the biomedical field, I'm looking to get back into helping to solve important geospatial problems. If you've got them, please let me know.