2026-09-03 –, Conference Management Room1
Mastering QGIS Map Themes streamlines cartographic workflows, automates Atlas production and enhances field data collection using Mergin Maps and QField. This approach ensures consistent, efficient map production and rapid switching between map views for diverse GIS tasks.
This presentation focuses on map production in QGIS using Map Themes. The goal is to demonstrate how Map Themes can streamline cartographic workflows, improve consistency and support both indoor and outdoor GIS tasks.
Map Themes in QGIS provide a powerful way to manage layer visibility, styling, and map content for different purposes. By defining multiple themes within a single project, users can quickly switch between different map views without duplicating data or creating separate project files. This is particularly useful in projects that require multiple outputs, such as thematic maps, analytical views or complex layouts.
The Atlas tool in QGIS enables automated map production by combining Map Themes, users can generate large series of maps efficiently, ensuring consistent styling and structure across all outputs. This approach significantly reduces manual work, minimizes errors making and enhace cartographic production.
The workflow is further extended into the field using Mergin Maps and QField. These mobile applications uses Map Themes as faster switch beetwen different layers and basemaps.
The presentation will demonstrate how combining these tools—Map Themes, atlas generation, and mobile GIS applications—enables a faster, more efficient and flexible approach to geospatial workflows. It will also highlight best practices for integrating these components into everyday GIS tasks, supporting both individual users and organizational needs.
Tomaz Sturm is a GIS expert with more than 25 years of experience in working with spatial data and analysis. Tomaz is a big fan of FOSS4G and shares his enthusiasm and knowledge in his country doing OSGeo conferences and FOSS4G workshops.