Convert a points layer to a polygons layer in QGIS without using plugins

In QGIS it’s possible to convert a points layer to a polygons layer in just a few steps. To do so there are some minimum requirements for the points layer, because QGIS has to know which points should be grouped to a polygon and in which order these points must form a polygon. To illustrate this I have created a test layer with 7 points. I added two new fields: “polygon” and “order”. The field “polygon” indicates which points have to form a polygon together. In this example the result should be two polygons (1 & 2). The field “order” indicates in which order the points should be connected to form a polygon. In this example the result will be a triangle and a quadrangle (quadrilateral).

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List of webservices with data for Belgium now also in English and French

Since a couple of years I maintain 4 web pages with lists of WMS, WFS, WMTS and XYZ tile services that contain data for Belgium. When I recently attended the FOSS4G Belgium conference in Brussels, it became clear these web pages are pretty popular with the Dutch speaking GIS folks at the conference. The WMS page was even on one of the slides for the keynote by OGC president Bart De Lathouwer.

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ZoomToBelgium v1.1 for QGIS released

I released version 1.1 of ZoomToBelgium for QGIS today. This QGIS plugin creates a button to zoom to any of the Belgian Municipalities or Districts. In this new release districts were added.

Recently this project migrated from Github to GitLab. From now on it can be found on https://gitlab.com/GIS-projects/ZoomToBelgium.

You can download this new version of ZoomToBelgium from within QGIS, because this plugin is available in the official QGIS plugin repository.