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.
I offer online consultancy on GIS work flows with QGIS, Mergin Maps, Python, PCRaster, WebODM, GDAL and other open source software.
I create online tailor-made trainings on open source GIS software and Python. For QGIS I provide the official QGIS certificate.
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.
Check my YouTube Channel and the GIS OpenCourseWare platform for free videos and step-by-step tutorials. These come without support and without certificates.
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.
I'm happy to announce that my company QWAST-GIS will continue to be a Small Sustaining Member of QGIS in 2024!
This week I've started teaching in the new module "Planning for Urban Climate Adaptation" of the MSc Programme on Water and Sustainable Development at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education. Great news for you: you can follow along with the free tutorials available at GIS OpenCourseWare!
Do you need support in you open source GIS workflows? You can of course post comments at the videos on my YouTube channel and wait for the answer. You could also request consultancy from QWAST-GIS. Now I have something in between: GeoGenius membership of my YouTube channel.