Hi Benedict, As Giovanni said - an overview map element (which seems to be what you describe) is already there in QGIS master - not in version 1.8.
Multiple views in one QGIS project would be very nice to have - I wouldn't call it data frames - just because ESRI calls them data frames - we should develop our own concepts. However, it seems like it is not trivial to implement at all - it would be a major undertaking as many pieces in the QGIS code would have to be rewritten as they don't know how to deal with multiple views. Andreas Am 06.01.2013 00:37, schrieb Benedict Holland: > Hi All, > > I just stumbled across this bit from Nathans blog: > http://woostuff.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/the-things-i-would-like-to-see-in-qgis-what-are-yours/ > > I was wondering if there was someone working on Data Frames and being able > to load multiple data frames into the presenter (exactly like ArcGIS). The > best use case for this exact feature is to get the extent marker for an > area locator in the main map. Something along the lines of a main map with > a tiny area map in the corner displaying the location of the current map. > You see, I actually do need this feature to exist which would make it quite > high on priorities to try to tackle. Also, do you know where I should start > looking and what areas of the code tree I would be working in? I am not > sure if this should start out as a plugin either since I have a feeling I > would end up creating a top level object made up of layers and I am not > sure how well that would fit into a plugin like interface. Of course, I > don't have any skills programming a plugin for anything anyway but I > can re-factor code and design a template for a code review. > > Also, how do code reviews happen? I would love to get any input on what > this sort of thing should look like and what features people would > generally want from a "Data Frame" like object and have the class > interfaces reviewed before I start tackling the hard work. > > Thanks all, > ~Ben > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
