Conference report - FOSS4G, Como

Submitted by Szabó.György on 2015.08.05.,Wednesday 00:00

FOSS4G-E 2015

Dear Readers,

Many HUNAGI members (Dr. Gábor Remetey, Dr. Zoltán Siki, Ervin Wirth, Krisztián Takács) attended the FOSS4G - Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Europe conference in Como, Italy.

The website of the event:

http://europe.foss4g.org/2015/

Our secretary's - Ervin Wirth's - article is included in the conference publication, check it at the link below: 
http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/workbooks/n12/FOSS4G-eu15_submission_214.pdf
http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/workbooks/n12/

The short article is about a QGIS plugin, which represents the distortions of the projections real-time like the Indicatrix of Tissot. The QGIS contains more than 2700 projection, and we are able to study the effects in a blink.

The plugin was download nearly a thousand times:
http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/tiss/

Here you can view a video about its usage: