In the recent months, there has been a lot of progress in the capabilities of the 3D map visualization within QGIS. With support for various 3D data formats, QGIS 3D is moving far beyond the simple viewer when it was first released in QGIS 3.0 in 2018.

This talk summarizes the work that has been done in 2025 and 2026 to make QGIS 3D faster, more powerful and easier to use. We will discuss support for ESRI’s scene layers (I3S / SLPK), improvements to 3D Tiles support, significant performance improvements for handling of vector layers and much more!

One of the main features missing in QGIS, compared to other enterprise GIS, is streamlined web map publishing. Fortunately, there is the QGIS server, which is co-developed with the QGIS desktop app, and a whole ecosystem of tools that provide web map functionality.

This talk aims to review the current state of web map publishing for QGIS and compare the pros and cons of various approaches. We will look at the usual choices, such as Lizmap, QWC2 and G3W-Suite, each with its own distinct philosophy. We will examine the popular qgis2web plugin for simple map publishing, investigate the lesser-known tools such as GIS Quick, and look at the new options like Mergin Maps (which now includes web maps).

Finally, we will contrast the QGIS-native options with non-native approaches - such as using GeoServer or Felt (which offers QGIS integration) - to see their benefits and limitations.