So, after a very succesful rainy weekend the long-standing project of a new website is finally reality. Thanks to this project I had the chance to check out with no client constrains what was out there to allow me doing what I wanted. After an in-depth review I decided to use WordPress with the customized Shell-lite theme and some plugins.

Now, to the why, well I really love the way WordPress has evolved from a simple blogging platform to a much more powerful CMS while keeping its super slick and easy admin panel. Simply great, possibly the best I know of.
The shell-lite theme is a GPLv3 parent theme that I liked from the beginning on for its slick typography and simple almost black and white design, kudos to the developers. I created a child theme to change some things in the home and in the archives pages and inserted a Featured articles widget with a custom theme to my new home.

What I still need to do Is to translate the site using wp-i18n and upload the new logo as soon as I get it. As well I want to see If I’m happy with wp-touch as a mobile front end or if I’ll implement a new theme for it. We’ll see.

In any case I think that it is pretty amazing to what result you can come in about 20 hours of development.

Enjoy and let me know if you find any issues.
ciao

Since September 2011, as a result of my Google Summer of Code QGIS mobile project, QGIS is available for Android. As the maintainer and main developer behind QGIS for android I’m striving to improve it as much as possible. All my work is done in voluntary base, so if you can, consider supporting the development by using the donate button on the right.
Another great way of helping developing QGIS for android is sponsoring the development of specific features.

Thanks to FORNAT AG which sponsored me I could spend some time looking for solutions to make QGIS on android working with an external GPS receiver that sends NMEA strings.
It all boils down to the following:

• via bluetooth works
• via USB not yet (as soon as I get more sponsoring or time I’ll look more into it since I’ve some ideas).

To use an external bluetooth GPS you have to follow six easy steps:

1. Turn of internal gps
2. enable allow mock locations in settings>developer options
3. install Bluetooth GPS app (there are others as well but I had some problems, this was the best for me)
4. Pair the tablet and the gps receiver
5. start Bluetooth GPS select enable mock locations provider and hit connect (here you can see if the connection works by checking the coords you see or even by looking on a google map)
6. start QGIS, enable the GPS panel (view> panels > gps) and hit connect. that’s it

The only caveat is that you can’t check satellites and signal strength directly from within QGIS since the GPS data is relayed over the mock locations provider.

but for the rest it works as expected, now it would be cool if somehow it would be possible to connect a magic usb-to-bluetooth converter to our beloved usb only gps units…

ciao

Well, it is a super winter and there is a lot of snow here in Switzerland and all this makes me super happy which means that my productivity increases… here you are, the last and greatest improvement for QGIS on android: a fancy zooming map tool like you know from other applications like google maps.
The tool allows for:

• panning
• pinch zooming
• double tap zoom in with Center
• twofinger tap zoom out

Furthermore I added a close button to the attribute table so that there are no blocking dialog left. The attribute table doesn’t look perfect yet, but works well (a workaround to make it look better is to force it into a dock-widget by checking “Open attribute table in dock window” under Settings->Options->General
I’ll release soon a new version and look forward to your comments and support.

and here a video:

QGIS supports now an all new touch maptool that allows panning, pinch zooming, double tap zoomWithCenter and twofinger tap zoomOut

ciao Marco