2026-10-05 –, Bridge 3-Short Workshops
QGIS has long supported coordinate reference systems for bodies other than Earth, but until recently the practical experience of working with planetary data was limited by a number of issues related to use of non-Earth CRS. This talk covers the improvements that arrived with QGIS 4.2, making QGIS a more capable platform for planetary science and non-Earth spatial work.
The changes introduced by this work touch several key parts of QGIS: loading non-Earth data as the project's first dataset, available tools in QGIS, scale calculation and measurements on non-Earth data. The work also included a relatively small fix for QGIS server allowing it to publish WMS service properly for non-Earth data, without defaulting to use WGS 84 improperly.
Software Developer at Lutra Consulting and Associate Professor at the Institute of Geoinformatics, VSB – Technical University of Ostrava. Focuses on OSS development. QGIS contributor, QGIS plugins author - LoS tools (Visibility Analysis), Bivariate Renderer, QMapshaper (QGIS-Mapshaper integration).