Hi all,
for a course I am about to give tomorrow I played a bit with SEXTANTE,
although I am going to teach geoprocessing with fTools (we are using
QGIS 1.8). It was my first go with SEXTANTE and I was about to show what
it will offer in the future. Therefore I built a small model with three
input layers a buffer and two overlay operations. I did not succeed in
running the model so I tried in current master.
As it currently is SEXTANTE is not operable for me (or I am doing it
wrong): First message is "Layers do not all use the same CRS...."
although they definitely do and the same EPSG-code is noted in square
brackets behind each layer name!? Second I get an "Error executing
algorithm..." it seems as SEXTANTE cannot use PostGIS layers as input
(when I save them as shape files the model runs perfectly), this is a
big limitation as my institution stores almost everything in PostGIS.
(SEXTANTE should not offer PostGIS layers to choose as input layers then).
Well, this was a very disappointing experience because additionally QGIS
was frozen two or three times opening or closing the model. I do not
want to complain, all I want is to ask for keeping fTools as they are
until SEXTANTE can _really_ replace them in all aspects. Then we should
remove the vector menue completely because I agree that finding the tool
you are looking for is a lot easier in SEXTANTE.
my 2 cents
Bernhard
Am 17.04.2013 07:42, schrieb Anita Graser:
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 3:19 AM, Mathieu Pellerin <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
There might be a way to make most people happy here.
I find the vector menu a nice ui shortcut for useful functions. If
sextante relevant functions are at par (or better), couldn't the
vector menu items stay, which would please many, and when clicked
triggers sextante's function dialogue? Victor? Same thing could
happen with vector menu too. Sextante's analysis toolbar is super
useful but might be a throwback for some if vector / raster menu
functions disappear.
On human resource (coders and testers) and maintenance angles,
keeping to mechanism to do same thing is an obvious waste.
I see. So you'd suggest to keep only Sextante code (where duplicates
exist!) but provide shortcuts from the menu? I'd +1 that.
I've been testing a variety of functions in the menus and in Sextante
over the last days and there are always some broken ones. Neither
"package" is without major bugs today.
We need to get it together for 2.0 and that's easier if we can focus on one.
Best wishes,
Anita
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