Hi Tim,
With Raymond we are planning on using your great ester egg data in the
overview box within map layouts.
I am looking for the license of the data, do you perhaps know it / know
where to find it?
Or does it fall under QGIS' license?
Thanks,
Best Regards,
Aron Gergely
I am also a fan of the ester egg, learned it from Raymond.
On 28/05/2019 10:50, Tim Sutton wrote:
Hi
I don’t have any immediate fix for your issue, but I am glad you are
enjoying my Easter egg :-) I also use it ALL THE TIME and it is really
great in training courses etc. to get people quickly started with
panning and zooming or putting their data in context. One day maybe we
can elevate it’s status to have a button on the file toolbar that adds
it to the canvas without the need for bunnies and chocolate :-)
PS for those that don’t know about the Easter egg, type ‘world’ into
the coordinate box in the status bar as shown below, then press ENTER.
Regards
Tim
On 27 May 2019, at 14:58, Raymond Nijssen <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I know it was introduced as an easter egg, but I'm very happy with
the built in world map in qgis. I'm using it in a plugin to
automatically add a layer for the overview map in my layout. This
layer points to a shapefile in my qgis install directory:
/home/raymond/programs/qgis-master/share/qgis/resources/data/world_map.shp
Now, when saving my project and somebody else opening it, the layer
is invalid (of course). Is there a way to make the project point to
the right file, using some kind of variable pointing to the qgis
installation path?
like this:
{QGIS_RESOURCE_PATH}/data/world_map.shp
or I could copy the world.shp into my plugin and do this:
{QGIS_PLUGIN_PATH}/my-plugin/data/world_map.shp
These paths should then be saved including the variable in the
project file.
Another option would be to save the shp-file in the .qgz somehow but
I'm not too sure if that is the way to go..
This is the way I create the path now:
worldShp = os.path.join(QgsApplication.pkgDataPath(), 'resources',
'data', 'world_map.shp')
To make the question more general, is it possible to add resources to
a plugin in a way that projects point to these resources and make
that work for other users too?
Hope anyone can help!
Kind regards,
Raymond
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