Hi Jürgen > but I'd expect OGR to present a > layer list (organized by DXF layers and geometry types)
The layers are not organised by geometry type (this is also true for other OGR formats). Maybe, from QGIS side, it needs a similar approach as for the PostGIS tables without entries in geometry_columns? Regards, Marco Am Mittwoch, 26. Januar 2011, um 09.55:57 schrieb Jürgen E. Fischer: > Hi Marco, > > On Wed, 26. Jan 2011 at 09:13:25 +0100, Marco Hugentobler wrote: > > Because matching dxf to GIS is difficult (multilayers, labels, different > > feature types can be in one layer). So accessing dxf via OGR in QGIS > > might not be as trivial as it seems. E.g. in QGIS we expect all the > > features in one layer to be of the same shape type. > > I never used the DXF support in OGR so far, but I'd expect OGR to present a > layer list (organized by DXF layers and geometry types) to QGIS from which > the user can choose from. > > But I wouldn't opt to drop the dxf2shp plugin - there's more work involved > dropping it, then keeping it. ;) > > > Jürgen -- Dr. Marco Hugentobler Sourcepole - Linux & Open Source Solutions Churerstrasse 22, CH-8808 Pfäffikon SZ, Switzerland [email protected] http://www.sourcepole.ch Technical Advisor QGIS Project Steering Committee _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
