Hi Sören, That was a nice tutorial. I look forward to trying this approach out on my system.
Regards, John On Mar 21, 2011, at 4:28 PM, Soeren Gebbert wrote: > Hello, > IMHO the WPS (web processing service) approach to use GRASS GIS within > QGIS might be a better solution? All the location, projection and > mapset overhead would be avoided and the integration into QGIS would > be more intuitive. Additionally using the WPS approach will also make > Sextante, ArcGIS and other geo processing capabilities available in > QGIS. Also cloud geo processing will be available using this approach. > I would suggest to largely improve the existing WPS plugin from Horst > Düster (and partially me) to make QGIS to one of the best WPS clients > available. > > Here an example of the capabilities of the current WPS QGIS - GRASS > GIS 7 approach: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCnax9w1bCs > > As far as i know the grass libraries are not designed to be used in > long running persistent applications, so there will always be problems > and a large effort migrating new GRASS GIS versions in QGIS. A WPS > client would be completely independent from changes in GRASS GIS API > or modules and will work with many other WPS backends. > > Just my 2C > Sören > > 2011/3/21 Paolo Cavallini <[email protected]>: >> Hi all. >> The GRASS plugin does not have a maintainer since long. We at Faunalia >> have done some smaller fixes, and financed, together with others, some >> more bugfixing, through[0]. >> This situation is not ideal: without regular maintenance, bugs creep in, >> and eventually major problems come out. Currently we have several >> serious issues on vectors in Windows. It is therefore important that >> someone fixes this, in order GRASS will remain fully usable from QGIS, >> on all operating systems. >> I'm therefore asking all the serious GRASS-QGIS users to step up and >> give a hand, with either developer time or money. You are free not to do >> it, but if you do it the future of this important tool will be bright >> and reliable. >> All the best. >> -- >> http://www.faunalia.it/pc >> >> [0]http://www.qgis.org/wiki/Bugs >> >> _______________________________________________ >> grass-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user >> > _______________________________________________ > grass-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
