Re: [Qgis-user] CAD like drawings in qgis

2015-08-09 Thread John Layt
On 8 August 2015 at 20:09, Michael.Dodd michael.d...@open.ac.uk wrote: Is it possible to do CAD like drawings in qgis, for example the ground plan of a house plus the elevations? I know qgis is not a CAD package and that you could do a non-earth map in qgis to show the ground plan but I was

Re: [Qgis-user] Problems with Plugins

2015-11-16 Thread John Layt
On 16 November 2015 at 08:29, Luigi Pirelli wrote: > > if not, probably you are using a Processing master version > (show_message_log was added in processing 24 days ago: > https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/blob/master/python/utils.py#L108) and the > problem can be solved

Re: [Qgis-user] General interest in geological support for QGIS?

2016-01-30 Thread John Layt
On 30 January 2016 at 18:47, John Harrop wrote: > Since we have been talking about geological symbol fonts… > > What is the level of interest in other geological tools? I would very > much like to see the momentum in QGIS carry on into building tools in QGIS > and/or PostGIS

Re: [Qgis-user] creating a python plugin to autopopulate some of the Georeferencer properties

2016-03-25 Thread John Layt
On 25 March 2016 at 20:05, Eric Goddard wrote: > It looks like I can make sure most of the settings are configured > properly using QSettings(), but still not sure how to go about opening > the georeferencer with an image and the output and report fields > pre-populated.

Re: [Qgis-user] creating a python plugin to autopopulate some of the Georeferencer properties

2016-03-26 Thread John Layt
On 26 March 2016 at 00:03, Eric Goddard wrote: > Awesome, thanks John. We have about the same number of images to georef so > that will be a big help. I looked at the georeferencer code which is how I > discovered that some of the properties were stored in QSettings. I'm

Re: [Qgis-user] shift or control to toggle zoomin/zoomout?

2016-04-14 Thread John Layt
On 14 April 2016 at 20:14, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote: > Hi, > > Most drawing programs (like inkscape) have one zoom tool, which toggle > between zoomin/zoomout with ctrl or shift button. > > This looks like not so difficult to do? We could keep the two buttons as > now, but

Re: [Qgis-user] Trigger actions of CADDigitize plugin from pyqgis

2016-04-15 Thread John Layt
On 14 April 2016 at 14:26, Tudorache, Marian wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have a question about how to use CADDigitize plugin from pyqgis. > > 1. I would like to get the active instance of this plugin from > QgisInterface (iface). I understand when the plugin

Re: [Qgis-user] How can I call pluginA from pluginB?

2016-04-19 Thread John Layt
On 19 April 2016 at 11:47, 荻原 wrote: > Hi! > I would like to ask a question how to call different plugin from a plugin. > > I made two plugin using plugin builder . > > when I want to use plugin, I click plugin Icon in toolbar or menu,and > the main window open. > (That

Re: [Qgis-user] Drill hole plotting

2016-07-13 Thread John Layt
On 13 July 2016 at 08:33, Grant Boxer wrote: > Can anyone advise me if it is possible to plot drill hole cross sections > with annotation in QGIS or GRASS? If so, is there a tutorial that I can > access to get me started? There's a plugin for that :-) Try

Re: [Qgis-user] Is there a shortcut to disable and enable snapping during digitizing?

2017-02-24 Thread John Layt
On 23 February 2017 at 15:50, aborruso wrote: > Hi, > I have enabled some snap options, and usually I need to maintain them on. I > would like to disable it during digitizing. Is there some shortcut to do it > in an editing session? > Is there another way to do it? > > I'm

Re: [Qgis-user] Profile section digitising

2016-09-13 Thread John Layt
On 12 September 2016 at 14:49, Lester Anderson wrote: > I was wondering if anyone had advice or ideas about digitising profile > data (say on a geological cross-section) that is referenced to a > polyline in the project, This is something we've been working on for

Re: [Qgis-user] Local Grid Layout in QGIS

2016-10-31 Thread John Layt
On 31 October 2016 at 13:10, Grant Boxer wrote: > Is there a function/plug-in for Qgis where I can create a local grid > layout? For example I want to create a grid with an origin at x and y > metres, and a baseline direction of say 045 degrees, and peg a grid of 100 > x 100

Re: [Qgis-user] copy layer to scratch

2018-09-01 Thread John Layt
On Thu, 30 Aug 2018 at 14:02, Tobias Wendorff < tobias.wendo...@tu-dortmund.de> wrote: > Hi there, > > is there a sane way to copy layers to memory? Right now, I'm using > "Merge vector layers" for this. > > Best regards, > Tobias > I took the only sane route and wrote a plugin. I'm told by my

Re: [Qgis-user] Export GeoPDF Mac

2020-05-16 Thread John Layt
The Mac installer is currently packaged with the older version of GDAL which doesn't support GeoPDF (your colleague will have the newer version of GDAL installed automatically as packaged with the Windows installer). My understanding is the Mac package developers (Lutra Consulting) are currently

Re: [Qgis-user] Mac 3.14 dmg, proj

2020-07-25 Thread John Layt
Hi, It was being worked on at this GitHub issue https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Mac-Packager/issues/12, and thanks to a GIS grant (http://blog.qgis.org/2020/07/10/qgis-grant-programme-2020-results/) the first test version are now available. No ETA for final release as yet but I'd assume 3.16 now.

[Qgis-user] QGIS on Apple Silicon / Rosetta 2?

2020-11-18 Thread John Layt
I realise they're only shipping today, but has anyone had the chance to test if QGIS runs OK on the new Apple Silicon Macs using Rosetta 2? Our leasing provider is offering a great upgrade deal (deadline Friday), but I don't want to risk it until I know QGIS runs OK. FYI, Qt have announced they

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS on Apple Silicon / Rosetta 2?

2020-11-19 Thread John Layt
f you are getting a good deal, you can donate him a device and we can > start the work on building the packages earlier! > > Kind regards > Saber > > > On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 at 15:52, John Layt wrote: > >> I realise they're only shipping today, but has anyone had the chan

Re: [Qgis-user] 202021-ESRI gdb not opening on macOS Big Sur Version 11.0.1

2020-11-23 Thread John Layt
Hi, It may be the difference is between QGIS 3.14 and 3.16, as the Mac packaging method changed in 3.16 and there are a few residual problems that are fixed in 3.16.1 (hopefully out today). I'd test it first with 3.14 on Big Sur before downgrading to Catalina. Regards, John. On Sat, 21 Nov

Re: [Qgis-user] Layout page size variable?

2021-05-21 Thread John Layt
Not sure you can use it in this case, but if you're needing to find standard page sizes and localised names from width x height measurements, the Qt QPageSize class has useful lookup tools. See https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qpagesize.html. Something like: id = QPageSize.id(QSizeF(width, height),

Re: [Qgis-user] Tip for managing heavy data

2021-11-26 Thread John Layt
While this does sound like a proper geodatabase is needed, if the size of the data isn't too big then an alternative might be to put all the layers into a GeoPackage, so you have at least a single file to manage, then look at using Mergin (https://public.cloudmergin.com/) to share and sync the

Re: [Qgis-user] importing dwg/dxf

2021-11-22 Thread John Layt
Hi, We regularly have these issues, architects and civil engineers love their local coordinate systems. If it's engineers, they usually do have a transform available, as they need it to set out their site, but architects have no clue... And then you get the weirdos who trim random digits off the

Re: [Qgis-user] Batch Aerial Imagery GeoReferencing

2021-11-03 Thread John Layt
Hi Richard, The Historic England aerial photography team have been working on a similar sort of project which they recently released (see https://historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/news/new-virtual-aerial-map-allows-everyone-to-explore-englands-archaeology-from-the-air/). Perhaps they might be able

[Qgis-user] Checking WFS / HTTP error codes in pyQGIS / QgsVectorLayer?

2021-12-03 Thread John Layt
Hi, We have a plugin that runs a background task to download some data from an external WFS service via QgsVectorLayer. The API is limited to 100 features per call, requiring us to page our requests, and to 600 calls a minute. If we make too many calls per minute then we get HTTP 429 warnings in

Re: [Qgis-user] Uninstall QGIS 3.16.8 macOS?

2021-07-26 Thread John Layt
Don't forget the Caches in ~/Library/Caches/QGIS/QGIS3 John. On Mon, 26 Jul 2021 at 14:33, Ujaval Gandhi wrote: > That's for the old installers. The new installers are self-contained and > you can just delete /Application/QGIS3.x package and everything will get > deleted. > > The profile is

Re: [Qgis-user] Raster .asc and .nc wrong projection

2022-01-28 Thread John Layt
On Thu, 27 Jan 2022 at 21:38, Eugenio Trumpy wrote: > However, it seems that starting with a new project and importing raster as > .asc or .nc the things work fine, > then it happens that the origin and the scale of the raster change wrongly > without any reason. > In my case, origin changes

[Qgis-user] QGIS 3.22 breaks CRS Transform Files?

2022-01-19 Thread John Layt
Hi, We're preparing to upgrade the company from 3.16 LTR to 3.22 LTR and in our testing we're hitting issues apparently due to the Mac packages changing from PROJ 6 to PROJ 8 which seems to have changed the transform file names and formats. I've not seen any warnings or documentation on these

Re: [Qgis-user] LTR cycle

2022-01-20 Thread John Layt
On Thu, 20 Jan 2022 at 07:56, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote: > On 1/20/22 08:53, Ari Meyer wrote: > > Another question: where do we find the release notes for builds like > 3.16.16? I only see > https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/visualchangelogs.html < >

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS 3.22 breaks CRS Transform Files?

2022-01-20 Thread John Layt
On Wed, 19 Jan 2022 at 21:25, Andrea Giudiceandrea wrote: > John Layt > <https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org=from:%22John+Layt%22> > Wed, 19 Jan 2022 11:25:06 -0800 > <https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org=date:20

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS 3.22 breaks CRS Transform Files?

2022-01-20 Thread John Layt
On Thu, 20 Jan 2022 at 13:21, Sebastian Gutwein wrote: > Thanks everyone for working on this. The transformation warnings and > dialogs are very confusing especially for new users and ultimately teaches > them to ignore QGIS warnings. > Like John I have been looking for some documentation I

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS 3.22 breaks CRS Transform Files?

2022-01-20 Thread John Layt
On Thu, 20 Jan 2022 at 15:34, John Layt wrote: > I think I may have traced the root cause to PROJ, see > https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/45470#issuecomment-1017436019. I > suspect this may take a while to sort out, so Plan B user education is > going to be needed. > Seems I

Re: [Qgis-user] RAM and processing speed requirements for QGIS

2022-04-20 Thread John Layt via Qgis-user
On Tue, 19 Apr 2022 at 19:46, Helena Farrell via Qgis-user < qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org> wrote: > Hello, I am seeking input on whether my 7 year old Mac with 8GB RAM and a > 2.7gigahertz processor is likely to perform poorly at running QGIS. Since > these are like the bare minimum in terms of

Re: [Qgis-user] Mac OS QGIS installer 3.16

2022-04-21 Thread John Layt via Qgis-user
Hi, The downloads now live in https://download.qgis.org/downloads/macos/ (note the lower case macos). Note however the latest live links are at https://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/download.html. Cheers! John. On Thu, 21 Apr 2022 at 10:44, Sebastian Gutwein via Qgis-user <

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS and geopackages in sharepoint environement

2022-08-08 Thread John Layt via Qgis-user
Hi, We use Google Drive on Macs for shapefile and GeoPackages. The first thing we always tell our users is to set the files to Available Offline, so all reads/writes are local before being synced up to the cloud. That reduces issues, but all the obvious ones around file corruption and overwriting

Re: [Qgis-user] "QGIS" can't be opened because Apple....

2022-08-08 Thread John Layt via Qgis-user
Hi David, You need to right-click on the QGIS app and choose Open. Then it will show another warning, but this time will give you the option to Open the app, after which it will not ask again. Side-note for the list: I thought the QGIS board had approved buying a certificate from Apple to solve

Re: [Qgis-user] Mac problem

2023-01-26 Thread John Layt via QGIS-User
Hi, Apple has some extra security checks when running apps for the very first time. If the app is signed with a developer certificate purchased from Apple, then you can just double-click to run the app and it gets approved. If the app is not signed, as in the case of QGIS, then you need to

Re: [Qgis-user] Mac problem

2023-02-01 Thread John Layt via QGIS-User
wrote: > *John Layt* > *Thu Jan 26 07:12:39 PST 2023* > -- > > you need to manually > approve the app by first right-clicking on the app and selecting Open from > the context menu. The Option key is not required. > > > So the instruction