QField

Get your QGIS fieldwork done efficiently and comfortably.

Built on top of the popular QGIS open-source project, QField lets users consume fully configured projects in the field, allowing for customized feature forms, map themes, print layouts, and more, bringing the power of QGIS to your fingertips.

Leveraging open source libraries such as gdal, SQLite and PostGIS, QField reads, displays and allows editing of a wide variety of spatial vector and raster datasets. Users can view and modify datasets wherever they are, whether they have been downloaded onto your device, shared in emails or transferred via USB cable.

QField has won the prestigious Best of Swiss Apps Award 2022 in the enterprise category.

Core features

  • Work efficiently

    • Survey and digitise data in no time
    • QField is the professional mobile app for QGIS, allowing users to deploy their existing projects to the field.
  • Be anywhere

    • Edit your data on the go.
    • Seamless integration with QFieldCloud allows your team to work on your projects anywhere anytime.
  • Open anything

    • Open a wide range of spatial data formats
    • connect to industry-leading spatial databases
    • consume standardised geowebservices.
  • Supported formats

    • QGIS project files (.qgs, .qgz, as well as geopackage-embedded projects)
    • SQLite-based geopackage and spatialite databases
    • GeoJSON, KML, GPX, and shapefile vector datasets
    • GeoTIFF, GeoPDF, WEBP, and JPEG2000 raster datasets

Implemented Standards

  • Geographic JSON (GeoJSON)
  • Georeferenced Tagged Image File Format (GeoTIFF)
  • (OGC API - Features)
  • OpenStreetMap (OSM)
  • Web Map Tile Service (TMS)
  • Web Coverage Service (WCS)
  • Web Feature Service (WFS)
  • Web Feature Service - Transactional (WFS-T)
  • Well-Known Binary (WKB)
  • Well-Known Text (WKT)
  • Web Map Service (WMS)
  • Web Map Tile Service (WMTS)
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