Chapter 12. Up and Coming

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Preparing LiDAR data
  • Opening File Geodatabases with the OpenFileGDB driver
  • Using Geopackages
  • The PostGIS Topology Editor plugin
  • The Topology Checker plugin
  • GRASS Topology tools
  • Hunting for bugs
  • Reporting bugs

Introduction

The software landscape is constantly changing and QGIS is no exception. There are new features added weekly, and a huge, growing library of plugins. This chapter highlights some of the newer features at the time of writing. These are features that we think will be around for some time due to their usefulness. Keep in mind, however, that they are still in development and can easily change at any moment; hopefully, this is for the better. Included in this chapter ...

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