Starting from 3.26, QGIS now supports .vtpk (Vector Tile Package) files out of the box! From the changelog: ESRI vector tile packages (VTPK files) can now be opened directly as vector tile layers...
https://anitagraser.com/2023/12/15/offline-vector-tile-package-vtpk-in-qgis/
The BEV (Austrian Bundesamt für Eich- und Vermessungswesen) has recently published the Austrian cadastre as open data: The vector tile URL is: There are 4 different style variations: When confi...
https://anitagraser.com/2022/07/09/official-austrian-basemap-and-cadastre-vector-tiles/
The Central Institution for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG) is Austrian’s meteorological and geophysical service. And as such, they have a large database of historical weather data which the...
https://anitagraser.com/2021/11/01/exploring-zamgs-new-open-weather-data/
Monday, January 4th 2016, was the open data release date of the official Austrian street network dataset called GIP.at. As far as I know, the dataset is not totally complete yet but it should be ...
https://anitagraser.com/2016/01/06/a-qgis-router-for-gip-at/
A few weeks ago, the city of Vienna released a great dataset: the so-called “Flächen-Mehrzweckkarte” (FMZK) is a polygon vector layer with an amazing level of detail which contains roads, bu...
https://anitagraser.com/2015/04/17/routing-in-polygon-layers-yes-we-can/
At FOSS4G2013, I had the pleasure to attend a presentation about the ODVIS.AT project by Marius Schebella from the FH Salzburg. The goal of the project – which ended in Summer 2014 – was “t...
https://anitagraser.com/2014/12/21/exploring-open-government-population-data-collected-by-odvis-at/