On 3 June 2026, the European Commission adopted a new package of measures to strengthen Europe’s technological sovereignty.

The package includes two legislative proposals —the Chips Act 2.0 and the Cloud and AI Development Act— together with the European Open Source Strategy and a strategic roadmap for digitalisation and artificial intelligence in the energy sector.

El pasado 3 de junio de 2026, la Comisión Europea adoptó un nuevo paquete de medidas para reforzar la soberanía tecnológica de Europa.

El paquete incluye dos propuestas legislativas —el Chips Act 2.0 y el Cloud and AI Development Act—, junto con la Estrategia Europea de Software Libre y una hoja de ruta estratégica para la digitalización y la inteligencia artificial en el sector energético.

Las Jornadas de SIG Libre de Girona han sido siempre un referente para Geomatico … porque han sido también la cuna de nuestra empresa, allá en 2011. En estos más de 15 años de conferencias hemos presentado multitud de charlas que celebran la esencia del desarrollo abierto: colaborar, aprender y devolver algo a la comunidad. Cada una aporta una perspectiva que invita a experimentar, contribuir y seguir construyendo tecnología que sirva a todos.

2025: Environmental Justice Atlas, un visor para conflictos ambientales

2025: Mapas de biodiversidad y estándares: del archivo al dato vivo

2025: Una nueva infraestructura compartida para las comunidades de geoinquietos al estilo DIWO

GeoServer 3.0.0 release is now available with downloads (bin, war, windows), along with docs and extensions.

This is a stable release of GeoServer 3.0.x series. GeoServer 3.0.0 is made in conjunction with GeoTools 35.0, and GeoWebCache 2.0.0.

Thanks to Andrea Aaime (GeoSolutions), Jody Garnett (GeoCat), and Peter Smythe (AfriGIS) for making this release.

GeoServer 3.0 is now generally available. This post is not a feature announcement, those have been written, and the release notes cover the details. This is something we get to do less often: closing the loop on a promise. The modernisation work the community funded is finished and shipping, and we want to account for what that funding set out to achieve and what it delivered.

The result is a platform brought back onto a current, supported foundation. The work reached across the wider ecosystem rather than GeoServer alone, and the scope the campaign promised has been covered.

Here’s another QField release, packed with the features that have been at the top of professional surveyors’ wish list! (hint: it’s in the title) — plus improvements across the board for our wide range of users.

First up, NTRIP support has been added in QField unlocking sub-centimeter accuracy position readings without the need for any third-party app. This has long been requested by cadastral surveyors and other professional field workers in need of highly accurate data where being a few centimeters off can have real consequences.

To configure an NTRIP connection, simply connect to an RTK capable GNSS device via Bluetooth, BLE or TCP from the QField settings positioning panel. Once connected, the NTRIP user interface will be visible just below the positioning devices combo box in the same panel.

Thanks to Mario Ame

Everything was working fine. I had just finished building the Grow Your Own allotments map, deployed it to the live server, and was feeling pretty pleased with myself. A few days later a friend messaged me that the map had stopped working. No regions, just a blank basemap. Checked the console and got this:

“Server returned no content-length header or content-length exceeding request. Check that your storage backend supports HTTP Byte Serving.”

The current outbreak of Ebola has inevitably triggered lots of maps of the outbreak, just search for “Maps of the Ebola outbreak in Africa” and you will find something like this.

Some of these are pretty good, some don’t communicate very well and a few are awful. My attention was drawn to a static map obviously generated by AI which was so so bad that it was laughable and you had to wonder why anyone share this without picking up the numerous obvious geographic errors.

My wife grows some vegetables in our back garden, she used to have an allotment but she gave it up and we dug up part of our grass. I got to wondering about allotments and whether they were a British phenomena or they were widely spread? Which countries have the most allotments, growing space per capita and the largest size of allotments?

Location: Remote (at least 4h overlap with CET)

Employment Type: Full-time (80-100%)

About OPENGIS.ch:
OPENGIS.ch is a team of Full-Stack GeoNinjas offering personalized open-source geodata solutions to Swiss and international clients. We are dedicated to using and developing open-source tools, providing flexibility, scalability, and future-proof solutions, and playing a key role in the free and open-source geospatial community. We pride ourselves on our agile and distributed nature, which allows us to have a motivated and multicultural team that supports each other in working together.

En la nueva versión de gvSIG Desktop, la 2.7, se han incluido tres herramientas que permiten crear geometrías de líneas y polígonos mediante rumbo y distancia. Para ello se han incluido tres funciones nuevas en el gestor de expresiones:

• PointByAngle(): Permite insertar nuevos puntos de la geometría mediante un ángulo y una distancia. El ángulo sería antihorario, siendo el origen 0º en dirección este. La fórmula sería:

PointByAngle(geometría, distancia, ángulo)

donde “geometría” sería el punto desde el cual se insertaría la nueva línea (siendo “$p0” el último punto insertado, “$p1” el penúltimo…), “distancia” sería la longitud del segmento en las unidades de la vista, y “ángulo” sería el ángulo en grados sexagesimales. Por ejemplo PointByAngle($p0,10, 10) sería como se muestra a continuación, 10 metros con un ángulo de 10º sobre la horizontal.

Filling a 4-year gap here! Did not find time to post itemized yearly overviews, plus other updates. And that while even more has been happening compared to the past "COVID-years". Will stick to highlights with a promise to add regular updates.

Below a brief overview of my professional life during 2022-2025. Highlights of living and working in the Open Source Geospatial and OSGeo(.nl |.org )-world,
organized by "Theme".

TL;DR Main 2022-2025 highlights: