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While updating to QGIS 3.40.3, I stumbled upon a surprising fact: QGIS is now 23 years old – possibly older than many of its users. It’s remarkable that this powerful open-source GIS software, used worldwide for mapping, data processing, and service publishing, was born in the dial-up internet era. Since Gary Sherman wrote its first line of code in Germany in 2002, QGIS has quietly revolutionized spatial technology for 23 years. Debuting five years before the iPhone and thirteen years before TensorFlow, this open-source GIS has not only survived three technological earthquakes (the dot-com crash, mobile revolution, and AI explosion) but evolved from a basic map viewer into global geospatial infrastructure. Let’s journey through time to uncover how this "living tech fossil" defied commercial giants to become king.

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Red Layer is a sketch annotation plugin for QGIS 3 that enables rapid hand-drawn annotations directly on your map canvas. A sample output is shown below:

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Bezier Editing is an open-source plugin for QGIS that specializes in precision vector graphic editing, particularly suited for complex curve design scenarios like roads, rivers, and landscape boundaries. By introducing Bezier curve control points, it transforms rigid polylines into smooth, natural curves, significantly enhancing both cartographic aesthetics and data accuracy.

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Valentine’s Day is here again, and the GIS community group at Malagis is buzzing with excitement. Watching the lively discussions makes one nostalgic for youthful enthusiasm. On such a romantic day, shouldn't everything—including GIS—have its own charm? Let’s explore two GIS-inspired romantic ideas shared by the group.

1. The Bonne Projection

Do you still remember the Bonne projection? Or have your cartography lessons faded into memory? Here's what it looks like:

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Building upon our previous tutorials on 《Creating Dynamic Marathon Route Visualizations with MapPlus: A No-Code GIS Solution》 and 《Implementing Dynamic Marathon Route Visualization with Cesium》, this guide introduces a solution for users seeking pre-processed trajectory data without manual digitization.

Introducing Two Step Road Platform

Official Website: https://www.2bulu.com/

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Following our previous article on Processing China Marathon Data for Spatial Analysis, this guide demonstrates heatmap visualization of marathon venues using QGIS.

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When crafting dynamic marathon routes from official maps, directly tracing simplified route images is inefficient without proper spatial referencing. Georeferencing solves this by aligning raster images with real-world coordinates.

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When processing DWG data in QGIS, exporting multiple layers individually becomes tedious. Here are three efficient batch export methods。

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When our frontend team requested updated administrative division codes, I leveraged the 2024 national standard vector map dataset (Approval No. GS(2024) 0650) shared in our previous article. This official dataset contains accurate administrative codes within its attribute tables, making it ideal for extraction.

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Following our previous article on the https://malagis.com/gis-data-share-2010-2020-global-forest-age-distribution-gami-data.html, this guide demonstrates netCDF visualization techniques in QGIS, eliminating the need for specialized tools like IDL.

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