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QField 3.7 “Haida Gwaii”: Polishing a great experience

For QField 3.7, we opted for a shorter development cycle that focused on polishing preexisting functionalities from feature form editor widgets improvement through to better nearby …

Celebrating community, innovation, and open-source GIS in Sweden - AKA the QGIS user conference 2025

It was such a pleasure to be part of the QGIS User Conference 2025 in Norrköping! The event was extremely well organised — a big thank you to the amazing local team for pulling it …

QField 3.6 “Gondwana”: Locking on greatness

Building on top of the last release which introduced background tracking, this development cycle focused on polishing functionalities and building on top of preexisting features. …

XLSForm Converter: unlock a world of surveys with our brand new QGIS plugin

Today marks the initial release of our brand-new QGIS plugin, XLSForm Converter. As the name suggests, the plugin converts XLSForm survey files into ready-to-use QGIS projects with …

1 Million Downloads: QField's Big Milestone

🚀 QField has officially hit 1 million downloads – thanks to you! 🎉 Let’s not beat around the bush: QField has hit 1+ million downloads. What started as an ambitious …

FOSSGIS 2025 – What a Week!

As long time sponsors of FOSSGIS, we stepped up the game this year and became Platinum Sponsors for FOSSGIS 2025. We are proud to be part of a thriving open-source GIS community …

Unpacking key insights from our QField Workshop

This year, OPENGIS.ch celebrated its 10th anniversary in Bern, with an afternoon full of workshops attended by clients, long-term friends, and colleagues. Here, we will give a …

QField 3.5 “Fangorn”: Background tracking a reality!

Let’s not bury the lead here: the long-awaited capability to track position while QField is in the background or the device is locked has arrived in this brand-new version of …

QField 3.4 “Ebo”: Geofencing and processing out of the box

QField 3.4 is out, and it won’t disappoint. It has tons of new features that continue to push the limits of what users can do in the field. Main highlights A new geofencing …

Rapid Mapping the Ticino Floods and Landslides with QField Rapid Mapper

QField Rapid Mapper is a project for the QField mobile app, which allows emergency responders, civil protection, military, and citizens to assess and report damages from natural …

Supercharge your fieldwork with QField's project and app-wide plugins

This blog post will introduce QField’s brand new plugin framework and walk through the creation of a plugin to support bird watchers in need of a quick way to digitize photos of …

QField 3.3 “Darién”: It is just the beginning

QField 3.3 has been released, and with it, we are proud to introduce a brand new plugin framework that empowers users to customize and add completely new functionalities to their …

QField receives prestigious recognition as a digital public good from the Digital Public Goods Alliance

We are thrilled to announce that the Best of Swiss Apps Enterprise winner 2022, QField, has been officially recognized as a Digital Public Good by the UN-endorsed Digital Public …

QField 3.2 “Congo”: Making your life easier

Focused on stability and usability improvements, most users will find something to celebrate in QField 3.2 Main highlights This new release introduces project-defined tracking …

Snappy QField 3.1 “Borneo” has arrived

The launch of QField 3.0 was a big deal, but now we’re back to focusing on smaller, more frequent updates. Don’t let the shorter change log for 3.1 trick you – there …

OPENGIS.ch and Oslandia: A Strategic Partnership to Advance QField and QFieldCloud

We are extremely happy to announce that we have partnered strategically withOslandia to push the leading #fieldwork app #QField even further. In the world of fieldwork, accuracy …

QField background tracking

Years ago, the QField community and its users showed their love for their favourite field app by supporting a successful crowdfunding to improve camera handling. Since then, …

QField 2.8: Boosting field work through external sensors

The latest version of QField is out, featuring as its main new feature sensor handling alongside the usual round of user experience and stability improvements. We simply can’t wait …

Capturing more while in the field with the new QField 2.7

A brand new version of QField has been released, packed with features that will make you fall in love with this essential open source tool all over again with a focus on capturing …

QField Jump-start

You want to start collecting field data but never worked with a GIS before? You are a passionate QGIS user and would like a jump start your fieldwork setup? You are a senior GIS …

QField 2.6: perfecting high-accuracy positioning

It’s only been a few weeks into the new year, but we’ve got great news for you: a brand new QField 2.6 “Geeky Gecko ?” has been released with a focus on positioning improvements, …

How to contribute to QField

QField is a community-driven open-source project. It is free to share, use and modify and it will stay like that. The very essence of a community is to help and support each other. …

QField 2.5 is here, reaching new heights

Our ninjas have been so busy that less than a month after we released QField 2.4, we find ourselves with so many new features we simply can’t wait any longer to present to …

Best of Swiss Enterprise App Award for QField

What a night it was. The “Best of Swiss Apps Awards” took place in Zurich yesterday, November 2, 2022. We were also nominated with QField. And in the enterprise …

QField 2.4 is here, and it is ?icious

Yes, QField for QGIS, the leading fieldwork app, was released on the iOS App Store! Get It now for Android, iOS, MacOS, Windows and Linux Good things take time (and sponsors), and …

How we build QField for many platforms - A look behind the curtain

In the past year, the build system behind QField has been ported to vcpkg, a modern C++ dependency management system. It has been a great success for QField and considerably helped …

24th Contributors QGIS Meeting in Firenze 2022

The international community of QGIS contributors got together in person from 18 to 22 August in parallel to OpenStreetMap State of The Map event and right before the FOSS4G. So …

A New Trick up QField’s Sleeve: Animated Maps

Starting with QField 2.2, users can fully rely on animation capabilities that have made their way into QGIS during its last development cycle. This can be a powerful mean to …

QField Users Sit Down, We Need to Talk About Storage Access on Android

TLDR: Since November 2021, Google has enforced new storage access limitations for apps published on its Play store which prohibits direct storage access on Android 11 and above …

QField collected data crucial in disaster relief after Tonga’s volcanic eruption

For once, it’s not an app from the Silicon Valley, but from Laax in the Swiss Alps that made the news. By publishing QField as an open-source app, OPENGIS.ch allows …

QFieldCloud now opensource - Happy 10 Years of field mapping with QGIS

Today, on QField’s 10th anniversary, we’re extremely proud to publish the results of over 18 months of development and give you the source code of QFieldCloud to go and …

Powerful and gentle QField 1.8 Selma sneaked in

Get fieldwork smoothly and nimbly done despite the ice and snow outside. Collect accurate data with freehand digitizing and improved form widgets, use the data from your external …

QField 1.7 Rockies hits the stage

Be ready for the cold weather with a smooth coordinate search, filters in the value relation widget, fancy new QML and HTML widgets, enhanced geometry editing functionalities and …

QField 1.6 is out!

Editing multiple features at the same time, support for stylus pens, dynamic configuration of image names and much more. QField 1.6 Qinling 秦岭 comes packed with awesome new …

Offline WMS - Benchmarking raster formats for QField

What are we looking for? We would like to use WMS offline on QField. For that, we need to figure out what is the best way to get a raster from a WMS and which format is the most …

QField 1.4 released - Happy new year

What a year’s start! After a very packed December publishing all the QGIS on the road videos and quietly releasing QField 1.3 - Ben Nevis we could have gone and relaxed over …

QField 1.2 released

After an intensive testing period, we are proud to announce the release of QField 1.2 As usual, get it on play store or download it from GitHub. QField Crowdfunding Campaign Before …

Win a QField jump-start package, use #MyQField

Do you want to win a QField jump-start package worth 550€? We are launching the # MyQField challenge. Follow us on Twitter and show us how you use @ QFieldForQGIS by tagging your …

QField 1.0 is here

Let’s get straight to the point It’s official, QField for QGIS 1.0 is out! Get it while it’s hot on the Playstore ( qfield.org/get) or on GitHub We are incredibly …

GeoBeer #26 in Bern hosted by OPENGIS.ch

Last Thursday around half past six in the evening. Striking many Geo-scientist found the way to the Spitalgasse in Bern. The reason was the 26th GeoBeer event taking place at …

QField RC5 - Last call for testing

We are really happy to announce the fifth and (hopefully) last 1.0 release candidate in QField’s history! This means that QField 1.0 is closer than ever. Get it while …

You gave us feedback - we give you QField 1.0 RC3

We are really happy to announce the release a new great milestone in QField’s history, QField 1.0 Release Candidate 3! (Yes, you might have got a glimpse of the broken RC2 if …

New Year's present - QField 1.0 RC1

It was a long and winding road but we are very excited to announce the general availability of QField 1.0 Release Candidate 1. Packed with loads of useful features like online and …

New Year's present - QField 1.0 RC1

It was a long and winding road but we are very excited to announce the general availability of QField 1.0 Release Candidate 1. Packed with loads of useful features like online and …

How to filter features in QGIS using the graphical processing modeler

This article describes a new algorithm for the processing modeler called feature filter algorithm. If you are already familiar with ETL concepts and the graphical modeler, you can …

PostgreSQL back end solution for quality assurance and data archive

Did you know that the possibilities to make a full QGIS back end solution for quality assurance and archiving in PostgreSQL are immense? SQL has it’s well known limitations, …

QField for Android 5

QField app on Google Play QField Karma edition app on Google Play It’s done, finally we managed to get rid of Ministro so that we finally can say, QField runs on any android …

QField in the wild

QField app on Google Play QField Karma edition app on Google Play QField Experimental is out, after a couple of months of requirements gathering, private early alpha testing and …

A star is born, QGIS mobile is now QField

It is with great pleasure that we want to announce the new name for what was briefly known as QGIS mobile.

QGIS Mobile 0.2 Demo

QField (formerly known as QGIS Mobile) is a touch optimized interface for field work developed by OPENGIS.ch. It is with great pleasure the we want to share with you the demo video …

Happy new year to the power of two!

For the first time we at OPENGIS.ch can celebrate with 2 people, Marco Bernasocchi and Matthias Kuhn both experienced QGIS developers and holders of a Master degree in GIScience. …