Hi On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 9:16 PM, Marco Hugentobler <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tim > > Yes, mbtiles would be cool. I've decided to go with vrt/overview for now > because mbtiles need a very recent GDAL. But mbtiles could be an additional > option in future (especially interesting for mobile devices). >
Yes true thanks! Regards Tim > Regards, > Marco > > > On 18.07.2012 22:52, Tim Sutton wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Etienne Tourigny >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Noticed a few issues with the save dialog >>> >>> 1) "format" drop-down is empty >>> 2) cannot select a new file >>> 3) segfault when saving to an existing file >>> 4) It would be nice to have that action in the legend contextual menu, >>> like for vector layers. >>> >> It would be really awesome to save those tiles straight into an >> mbtiles sqlite data store too - a nice way to turn an online resource >> into a portable fast local copy. >> >> Regards >> >> Tim >> >>> regards, >>> Etienne >>> >>> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Etienne Tourigny >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> That's great news! >>>> >>>> Concerning raster saving - will there be a mechanism for compressing >>>> files? >>>> It would be great if default compression schemes could be chosen for >>>> different file types, and an option at save time - sort of like image >>>> editors. >>>> >>>> I had trouble building it with external spatialite, could only get it >>>> to compile with cmake -DWITH_INTERNAL_SPATIALITE=TRUE - does this >>>> require a special version of spatialite? >>>> >>>> regards, >>>> Etienne >>>> >>>> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Marco Hugentobler >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi devs >>>>> >>>>> I'd like to announce the branch 'raster-pipes-2' in Radims repository >>>>> https://github.com/blazek/Quantum-GIS for testing. >>>>> Radim did a great job in refactoring the process of reading / >>>>> resampling / >>>>> reprojecting / displaying / modifying raster layers. Every step is now >>>>> a >>>>> subclass of QgsRasterInterface, with the advantage that several steps >>>>> can be >>>>> chained in a QgsRasterPipe. Like that, the raster functionality is >>>>> nicely >>>>> separated into different classes and it is easy to add/remove elements >>>>> in >>>>> the pipe. The iteration over the raster parts is controlled by >>>>> QgsRasterIterator (because for high-resolution prints or analysis on >>>>> large >>>>> datasets, it is impossible to keep everything in memory at once). >>>>> >>>>> Please report any issue you find in the branch to the developer mailing >>>>> list. >>>>> >>>>> Besides the changes in code architecture, there is also a new feature >>>>> in the >>>>> raster-pipes-2 branch. It is now possible to write through >>>>> QgsRasterDataProvider (currently only supported by the gdal provider). >>>>> There >>>>> is a 'save as...' function also for rasters now (though it is not 100% >>>>> complete at the moment). There is the option to save a raster in one >>>>> file or >>>>> in tiles (the tiles are then saved in one directory and vrt / pyramides >>>>> are >>>>> automatically created. Very usefull for saving the contents of a WMS >>>>> layer). >>>>> >>>>> Regards, >>>>> Marco >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Dr. Marco Hugentobler >>>>> Sourcepole - Linux & Open Source Solutions >>>>> Weberstrasse 5, CH-8004 Zürich, 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 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Qgis-developer mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >> >> >> > > > -- > 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 > -- Tim Sutton - QGIS Project Steering Committee Member (Release Manager) ============================================== Please do not email me off-list with technical support questions. Using the lists will gain more exposure for your issues and the knowledge surrounding your issue will be shared with all. Visit http://linfiniti.com to find out about: * QGIS programming and support services * Mapserver and PostGIS based hosting plans * FOSS Consulting Services Skype: timlinux Irc: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net ============================================== _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
