It’s been a while since this post, so I decided to write some update about current status and future of this project.
Project is still alive and under development with exciting new features coming soon. Read more below.
Coming up in 2017
Current release is 1.3.9 and it is more focusing on fixing some problems and better error reporting to the user with some features preparing for release 1.4 which is scheduled this Month. You can get list of new stuff in Github Milestone for release 1.4. I invite you to collaborate to the project on Github.
Most important change of release 1.4 is to support optional commercial or free plugins and first plugin to be released also this Month is Editing plugin.
Features of Editing plugin
1. Edit attributes and geometry of any layer in QGIS project:
Layer must be PostGIS or Spatialite type and published as WFS.
Registered users with permission to the project will be able to edit data, guest users will have only view permissions.
Administrator will be able to control edtiting layers via QGIS project settings.
2. Basic editing tasks:
Create, Modify geometry, Move, Delete.
Dynamic editing toolbar based on layer geometry type
3. Advanced Geometry tasks:
Snapping
CAD Tools
Dissolve (merge)
Split Polygon/Polyline with Line
Mask (Cut hole)
4. Auto Calculated fields:
Geometry (Area or Length)
Project name
Time of feature creation
Time of last feature modification
User who created feature
User who last modified feature
New features in 2016
Just a short info of new features added last year:
Mobile client
Integration of OpenLayers 3 Mobile Client. On the client side we now have 2 different map viewers, one standard web viewer and one for devices with smaller screen sizes. On the server side both use same settings from QGIS project and database, meaning you set up your project once.
External location services
These services can give you location of searched address (Geocode) or nearest address and elevation for defined location. Original QWC had Geonames search combo which was replaced for using more powerful providers.
Supported services are:
MapBox Surface and Geocoding API
MapZen Elevation and Search API.
Read more on Wiki pages.
Other
added support for BING maps and WMTS layers
a lot of minor things (bug fixes, small changes, error handling, support for new QGIS options like using layer ID’s)