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QOD October 2026
Welcome to the October 2026 QOD sessions.
Simply watch the YouTube Livestream and comment on the day, or catch the recording if you can't make the live session.
To keep up to date with QGIS Open Day events, please join the Telegram channel.
Virtual events will be taking place online (see links below) and in the links shared in the telegram group, all events are live-streamed on YouTube. See the individual event descriptions below for an indication of where to join each event.
QGISOpenDay 30 October 2026
| No | Title | Time | Speaker | Country | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What happened in QGIS this month? | 10H00 UTC | Selma Vidimlic Husic/Hefni Azzahra, Marco Serusi, Tim Sutton | BA/ID, ES, PT | EN |
| 2 | Using QGIS to compare blurred areas in Yandex and Google maps to identify Russian military facilities | 11H00 UTC | Håvard Gulldahl | NO | EN |
| 3 | Using QGIS to make maps of archaeological sites | 12H00 UTC | Matthew Beamish | UK | EN |
| 4 | Beyond attributes: sharing photos and documents across QGIS teams | 13H00 UTC | Eduard Kazakov | RS | EN |
| 5 | Publish QGIS data online using Mergin Maps | 14H00 UTC | Saber Razmjooei | UK | EN |
| No | Name | Role | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Selma | Session planning and speaker coordination | Contact Selma via the Telegram Channel username @selmavh |
| 2 | Hefni | Support and social media | Contact Hefni via the Telegram Channel username @hefni_17 |
| 3 | Seabilwe | Social Media | Contact Seabilwe via the Telegram Channel username @Seabilwe |
| 4 | Victoria | Support | Contact Victoria via Telegram Channel username @Victoria Neema |
Time: 30 October 2026 10H00 UTC "click this link to find out the time in your local time zone").
Duration: +/- 60 min
Venue: YouTube Link, Jitsi link
Presenters: Selma Vidimlic Husic/Hefni Azzahra, Tim Sutton, Marco Serusi
Description: This month’s session brings our regular QGIS community pulse check, with a special focus on the QGIS User Conference 2026 in Laax, Switzerland. We will share highlights from the event, including talks, workshops, and key discussions that took place at one of the biggest gatherings in the QGIS calendar. We will also cover our usual monthly roundup: recent releases and changelogs, active grant proposals, download stats, and usage analytics. On the docs and web side, we will touch on recent updates, website changes, and LTR status, along with any active QEPs, notable mailing list threads, and PSC meeting minutes.
Topic: Using QGIS to compare blurred areas in Yandex and Google maps to identify Russian military facilities
Time: 30 October 2026 11H00 UTC
Duration: +/- 60 min
Venue: YouTube Link, Jitsi link
Presenters: Håvard Gulldahl
Description: Yandex Maps blurs out sensitive sites in its satellite imagery, and those blurs can tell a story. In this session, a journalist from NRK (Norway) shows how he used QGIS to find them at scale for a cross-border investigation with Swedish Television and Delfi Meedia (Estonia). The team analysed 120 blurs and tied them to the growing militarisation of Russian industry.
You’ll see how a custom QGIS script, built on the Contour algorithm, detects smooth (blurred) surfaces above a threshold. It ran headless and in parallel inside a pipeline that pulled the map feed and flagged candidate blurs, making it possible to cover vast areas of Russia. Expect a practical look at the workflow, what worked, and how open source GIS can power investigative journalism.
Time: 30 October 2026 12H00 UTC.
Duration: +/- 60 min
Venue: YouTube Link, Jitsi link
Presenters: Matthew Beamish
Description: Archaeological sites generate a lot of data: excavation databases, CAD drawings, survey points. QGIS can bring it all together. In this session, an archaeologist shows how they connect QGIS to a site database and CAD vector data to produce clear, practical maps of archaeological sites.
Time: 30 October 2026 13H00 UTC.
Duration: +/- 30 min
Venue: YouTube Link, Jitsi link
Presenters: Eduard Kazakov
Description: GIS features often include more than geometry and attributes. Teams may also need to work with site photos, inspection reports, scanned documents, and other related files.
In this short talk, I will demonstrate how updated NextGIS Connect enables QGIS users to view, add, open, download, and manage files associated with features stored on a shared open source NextGIS Web server. Changes are synchronized between QGIS and the web platform, allowing multiple users to access the same spatial data and related materials from both desktop and web environments.
The talk will present a practical collaborative workflow in which photos, documents, and other files remain connected to the relevant map features and available to the entire team.
Time: 30 October 2026 14H00 UTC.
Duration: +/- 60 min
Venue: YouTube Link, Jitsi link
Presenters: Saber Razmjooei
Description: Publishing a QGIS project on the web usually means running a stack: QGIS Server, a web client such as QWC2, Lizmap, G3W-Suite or GeoGirafe, plus the hosting, security and configuration around them. These are mature, powerful tools, and the right choice when you want full control. But what if you just want to share your map?
This session introduces the new web map publishing in Mergin Maps. From QGIS, you sync your project and GeoPackages with the Mergin Maps plugin and get a web map that keeps your QGIS styling, with no server, database or infrastructure to set up.
We will cover:
- Publishing from QGIS: your QGIS project and flat files (GeoPackages) are the source of truth
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Public and private maps: share a map link or embed it in any website with an
<iframe> - OGC services: WMS, WMTS, WFS and OGC API – Features for every project, usable in QGIS or any OGC client
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Customisation with
map-script.js: add your own JavaScript on top of the web map to build dashboards, animations and story maps
The session starts with a short overview of today's QGIS web publishing options, building on our talk at the QGIS User Conference 2026. Then comes a live demo, "Ring of Fire": 25 years of earthquakes, from one GeoPackage and one QGIS project to an interactive web map with a dashboard, a time animation and a story map.
You can do this too! We really encourage others to follow our initiative, using the wiki page link below to organise your plans (just add a section below the last one). You can host virtual meetups in the Jitsi room, plan your next steps to take QGIS further down the road to world domination and much much more. We encourage language and region-specific huddles, documentation improvement sessions, bug fixing, making beautiful maps, and working together to do amazing things with QGIS.
We would really love to see more events offered from our country user groups and broader user base. The content can be at any skill level and in any language you like, and the times can overlap if needed. So please feel free to organise your activities on this wiki page. The QGIS Open Day is also an ideal time to hold virtual country user group meet-ups - please share your activities on the open day schedule, so that even people from outside of your country user group can benefit from your presentations. Contact me (see below) if you need help adding your events to the wiki page.
You can help us by spreading the word! We have prepared the following materials so that you may easily copy and paste the relevant contents to publish on your media platform of choice to let others know about these awesome events.
About QGIS Open Day
Dear QGIS Users
On Friday, 30 October 2026 we will be holding our monthly QGIS Open Day! What is a QGIS Open Day you may be wondering to yourself? It is an initiative to replace the wonderful community meetups we used to hold every six months when times were different. Like our in-person meetings, the event is organised on the principle of self-organisation and community participation.
Programme
- Session 1: What happened in QGIS this month?
- Session 2: Using QGIS to compare blurred areas in Yandex and Google maps to identify Russian military facilities
- Session 3: Using QGIS to make maps of archaeological sites
- Session 4: Beyond attributes: sharing photos and documents across QGIS teams
- Session 5: Publish QGIS data online using Mergin Maps
Where to watch
Please see the event wiki page at QOD-October-2026 Wiki for all the details of times and links for participation.
All the events are recorded and made available to users who couldn't make the live events. Youtube live streams are automatically available for catch-up viewing. Reviewing video links for individual events should work without a hitch, but you can also catch up on recordings from the QGIS Youtube channel:
Participants are kindly reminded to please read and observe our QGIS Code of Conduct and Diversity Statement to make these events a great experience for everyone!
Please contact the Lead QOD Event Organiser, Selma by email selma@kartoza.com, or via the Telegram Channel username @selmavh if you have any queries or need help setting up events.
