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I'm Hans van der Kwast. With more than 20 years of experience with GIS and Remote Sensing in education and projects, I'm now offering consultancy, training and coaching in open source GIS. I'm an active member in the QGIS community, a QGIS certified trainer, and board member of the Dutch QGIS User Group. I've established the GIS OpenCourseWare platform for sharing free course materials on QGIS, Python, Mergin Maps, Google Earth Engine and much more. The PCRaster Tools plugin for QGIS that I've developed has been downloaded more than 40k times. Furthermore, I'm co-author of the book QGIS for Hydrological Applications and I have a YouTube Channel with more than 25k subscribers. As a member of QCooperative, I'm well connected with the best open source GIS developers.
Consultancy
Are you struggling with your GIS work flows?
I offer online consultancy on GIS work flows with QGIS, Mergin Maps, Python, PCRaster, WebODM, GDAL and other open source software.
Online training
Do you need a GIS training?
I create online tailor-made trainings on open source GIS software and Python. For QGIS I provide the official QGIS certificate.
Coaching
Are you looking for a coach?
I provide online coaching sessions to beginning and more advanced GIS professionals. Topics for coaching could be on open source business model development, marketing or GIS career development.
Free services
Are you looking for free training materials?
Check my YouTube Channel and the GIS OpenCourseWare platform for free videos and step-by-step tutorials. These come without support and without certificates.
My latest blog posts
QGIS User Conference 2024
This year's QGIS User Conference was organised 9-10 September in the nice capital of Slovakia, Bratislava. The conference was followed by a Contributor Meeting from 11 - 13 September.
Mergin Maps Redesign
Mergin Maps has a new look! Watch this interview with Tomas Mizera and a demo of the new interface.
The growing popularity of QGIS in the Netherlands has led to a significant increase in the membership of the QGIS User Group Netherlands (QGIS-NL) since its establishment in 2019. Thanks to the increase in corporate members QGIS-NL could become a Large Sustaining Member of QGIS.