Immo Blecher
Since 1991 groundwater management and GIS specialist at various organisations in South Africa;
main developer of the Aquabase Water Management software (open-source);
since 2022 Geodata-Analyst at Mobilfunkinfrastrukturgesellschaft in Naumburg (Saale), Germany, working mainly with QGIS and PostGIS, but also ESRI ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Enterprise
Sessions
Mobile network management data was typically gathered in our organisation in various inter-linked spreadsheets, which lead to data redundancy and constant user errors, making it inefficient with difficult work flows. It was therefore decided to move the spreadsheet data to a PostGIS database and manage it with QGIS. For that purpose several QGIS forms with constraints and default values (formulas and expressions) were built with the "Drag-and-Drop" designer for a number of joined layers to allow data entry and management. This presentation and short demonstration shows not only the workflows, tricks and successes, but also the challenges with this custom-built QGIS tool used by our mobile network planning specialists.