Horst Düster
Dr. Horst Düster has been working with free open source software and developing solutions for GIS and WebGIS applications for more than 30 years. From 1999 to 2012, he was the GIS Coordinator of the Canton of Solothurn and from 2004 to 2012 he headed the Office for Geoinformation in the role of Deputy Head of Geoinformation. In these positions, he played a decisive role in the realization of the cantonal geodata infrastructure (SO!GIS). SO!GIS is based 100% on open source software and provides the more than 3500 employees of the cantonal administration with GIS functionalities for their daily work. SO!GIS follows the concept of distributed service-oriented architectures. As a proven expert in geodata infrastructures, he has taught distributed geodata infrastructures at Mainz University of Applied Sciences. In spring 2012, he joined Sourcepole AG as co-owner.
Sessions
QWC2 (QGIS Web Client 2) is the official web application of QGIS, that allows you to publish your projects with the same rendering, thanks to QGIS Server. The environment is composed of a modern responsive front-end written in JavaScript on top of ReactJS and OpenLayers, and several server-side Python/Flask micro-services to enhance the basic functionalities of QWC2 and QGIS Server.
QWC2 is modular and extensible, and provides both an off-the-shelf web application and a development framework: you can start simple and easy with the demo application, and then customize your application at will, based on your needs and development capabilities.
This talk aims at introducing this application and to show how easy it is to publish your own QGIS projects on the web. An overview of the QWC2 architecture will also be given. It will also be an opportunity to discover the last new features that have been developed in the past year and ideas for future improvements.