FOSS4G 2026 · Hiroshima · lightning talk

QGIS Hub

The community resource ecosystem
you might not know about.

Where QGIS styles, models, scripts and 3D models are shared — and how to reach them without leaving QGIS.

Who’s talking

Ismail Sunni

Open source geospatial software engineer

Camptocamp · Germany
— QGIS Indonesia User Group · Python Indonesia
ismailsunni.id
First, the scale · QGIS is not niche
QGIS monthly opens, rising from about 7 million in 2022 to about 20 million in 2026

Around 20 million QGIS opens a month, up from 7 million in 2022. Every one of those people needs styles, models and scripts — and some of them are making good ones.

The problem · one
YOU NEED SOMETHING

Where do I find
a style for this?
A model. A script.
Any idea at all.

YOU MADE SOMETHING

I made something
good.
How does anyone else
ever find it?

Where this lives today
Registered · QGIS-Resources / directory.csv
Anita’s Repository,github.com/anitagraser/…
Finnish Transport Infra Agency,…/liikennemerkit
USGS Geologic Symbols,…/geologic_icons
QGIS Brasil Official,…/QGISBR-Resources
HERE icons,…/here-icons-qgis
Star-Eau french symbols,gitlab.com/star-eau/…
… 21 more lines

Twenty-seven git repositories. You join by opening a pull request against a CSV file.

Registered nowhere
QGIS-ESRI-Converted-Styles
StephSaephan · ESRI styles via SLYR

QGIS-Cartography-Resources
MicheleTobias · workshop set

And the rest of what you have bookmarked.

QGIS Hub

The resource exists.
The person who needs it exists.
They can’t find each other.

hub.qgis.org  +  the QGIS Hub Plugin
The answer · hub.qgis.org

Browse and download without an account. Uploading is the same site, same page — no pull request, no CSV.

Sample resources · two from every category
Styles
Mapbox Maki Icons A–I
Klas Karlsson
42,348 ↓
Project
QGIS Dashboard
Tim Sutton
10,071 ↓
Map gallery
Waterberg Biosphere Reserve
Tim Sutton
8,034 ↓
Model
Quick Parcel Digitizer
Anaba
4,857 ↓
QLR
swisstopo Vector Tiles
Kuhn
3,886 ↓
3D model
Tree Low Leaf
Klas Karlsson
2,721 ↓
Script
Height Above Nearest Drainage
Hans Kwast
776 ↓
Pokemon Color Palettes
Bogin
6,196 ↓
The Earth — Right Now!
Denney
1,349 ↓
Mount Teide
Saber Razmjooei
1,894 ↓
Watershed Generator 3.0
Abdou Sene
3,302 ↓
Spanish PNOA orthophotos
IGN Spain
649 ↓
QGIS Logo Q
Nijssen
2,168 ↓
Remove Contained Polygons
Venancio
688 ↓
Your turn · this is the whole upload form
The Hub upload form: file, thumbnail, name, description, tags, CC-0 confirmation

A file, a thumbnail, a name, CC-0 — and it is on the Hub. You already have something on your disk that belongs here. Share it.

Part two · without leaving QGIS

QGIS Hub Plugin

30,000 installs. Against 20 million QGIS opens a month.

The QGIS Hub Plugin · the same library, inside QGIS
QGIS Hub Explorer dialog: category tree on the left, thumbnail grid on the right

Every category, every count, the same thumbnails — in a QGIS dialog. Search, filter, preview, Add to QGIS.

Demo recording — 69 seconds

QGIS Hub Plugin, in practice

Expected at img/demo.webm and img/demo.mp4.

Backup copy: youtu.be/hmD51BjkwLg

P pauses and resumes · R restarts

Straight with you
What the plugin does

It fetches. Search, preview and load, without leaving QGIS.

Uploading still happens on the website. Want it in the plugin? Come and build it with me.

Not the Resource Sharing plugin

It solves a different problem, from a directory of 27 git repositories.

Both are good. The Hub plugin is simply the shortest path in: install, open, use.

Two things, this week

Install the plugin.
Upload one thing.

hub.qgis.org
github.com/qgis/QGIS-Hub-Plugin
Search “QGIS Hub” in the Plugin Manager
These slides: ismailsunni.id/foss4g-2026-qgis-hub
This demo: youtu.be/hmD51BjkwLg
hub.qgis.org
—

Presenter keys

→ Space next  ·  ← back  ·  End jump to the QR slide (overrun escape)

F fullscreen  ·  T start / stop the 4:00 timer  ·  0 reset timer

P pause the demo video  ·  R restart it  ·  N speaker note for this slide

? close this

The ramp along the bottom is your pacing. The tick you are standing on is where you should be; the fill is where you actually are.