Thank you for your help Simon. I just wrote Nacho and will be waiting for his response.
Regards and happy new year, Nik On 1/12/10, Simon Cropper (Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd) <[email protected]> wrote: > Nik, > > My first choice would be approach Nacho ([email protected]) about > getting a precompiled version, along with instruction on how to set it > up (relatively easy). I have all the pertinent details and files but I > would need express permission to send you a copy as Nacho bypassed the > list server when interacting with me (I took this to mean that compiled > files were not necessarily public). He did post the source code onto the > public server as noted on my previous post. > > Unfortunately I do not use Ubuntu and I have not yet found an easy way > of compiling java source to a workable JAR file. By all accounts the > best option is establishing Eclipse IDE (http://www.eclipse.org/) but I > have not tried this myself. > > Cheers Simon > > Simon Cropper > Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd > PO Box 160, Sunshine, Victoria 3020. > P: 9311 5822. M: 041 830 3437. > mailto: [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > web: www.botanicusaustralia.com.au <http://www.botanicusaustralia.com.au> > > > On 12/01/2010 2:18 PM, Nik Go wrote: >> My apologies for the oversight. I asked the same question from the >> Quantum GIS mailing list, and I forgot to edit the question. My bad. >> >> Thank you, Simon for answering. I will look into the requirements of >> the new version and see if I could compile Java without trashing my >> system. Would you have any tips for a 64-bit Ubuntu user on getting >> this done? >> >> On 1/12/10, Simon Cropper (Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd) >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Nik, >>> >>> This is the mailserver for gvSIG not QGIS. >>> >>> That said, QGIS has the ability to establish distances between polygons. >>> Look in the [Main Menu] [Vector] [Analysis Tools] [Distance matrix]... >>> >>> gvSIG + Sextante also has the ability to make a matrix -- city name >>> along column and row with intersecting cell containing minimum distance. >>> >>> The latest version of Sextante (the one a lot of people are having >>> trouble setting up at the moment) has a tool called "distance and angle" >>> this may also help. >>> >>> Recently I had a need to establish the distance between polygons/points >>> with the output being Unique ID1, Unique ID2, Distance, Bearing, etc... >>> That is, one row per comparison. >>> >>> I received help from Nacho Uve who can be contacted on the Sextante >>> Mailserver. He is developing a routine called CartTools. The Beta >>> version of this program worked really well -- the only problem was that >>> when comparing two polygons that were the same (zero distance) the >>> bearing and angle output were returned as 90° and 0° respectively when >>> it should actually return an error or warning (i.e. these values are not >>> applicable and should not be returned). >>> >>> In this format it is simply a matter of applying the 'x' and 'y' >>> attribute for each city and you have your answer. >>> >>> Nacho has submitted his routine to the Sextante source code repository >>> http://forge.osor.eu/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/soft/sextante_lib/vectorTools/src/es/unex/sextante/vectorTools/distanceAndAngle/DistanceAndAngleAlgorithm.java?root=sextante&view=markup >>> <http://forge.osor.eu/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/soft/sextante_lib/vectorTools/src/es/unex/sextante/vectorTools/distanceAndAngle/DistanceAndAngleAlgorithm.java?root=sextante&view=markup>. >>> If you can compile java you will have no problem. >>> >>> Cheers Simon >>> >>> Simon Cropper >>> Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd >>> PO Box 160, Sunshine, Victoria 3020. >>> P: 9311 5822. M: 041 830 3437. >>> mailto: [email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]> >>> web: www.botanicusaustralia.com.au<http://www.botanicusaustralia.com.au> >>> >>> >>> On 12/01/2010 5:11 AM, Nik Go wrote: >>> >>>> Hello. Happy new year to all. >>>> >>>> I have a shapefile of cities, is it possible to do the following in QGIS >>>> >>>> * determine and visually display all cities with attribute "x" or >>>> "y" >>>> * find out if the "x" cities share a border with other "x" cities >>>> o if they do, I want to add an attribute to the database >>>> indicating it as a neighbor of another "x" city >>>> * find out if the "y" cities share a border with other "y" cities >>>> o if they do, I want to add an attribute to the database >>>> indicating it as a neighbor of another "y" city >>>> >>>> Thank you and regards. >>>> >>>> Nik >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Gvsig_internacional mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://listserv.gva.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gvsig_internacional >>>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Gvsig_internacional mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://listserv.gva.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gvsig_internacional >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gvsig_internacional mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://listserv.gva.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gvsig_internacional >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Gvsig_internacional mailing list > [email protected] > http://listserv.gva.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gvsig_internacional > _______________________________________________ Gvsig_internacional mailing list [email protected] http://listserv.gva.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gvsig_internacional
