Hey Tim, Yes I yanked that file from Natural Earth and I think it might have simplified it a little bit to reduce the file size but it's the same file.
Regards, Nathan On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 7:25 PM Tim Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > If I am not mistaken, the world map comes from Nathan Woodrow (he added it > for the projection selector widget): > > [timlinux@sandstone ~/dev/cpp/QGIS/resources/data (master)]$ git log > world_map.shp > commit cf241f51ae2ae4ae225c9af65690aa2a5524df04 > Author: Nathan Woodrow <[email protected]> > Date: Mon Oct 16 10:40:05 2017 +1000 > > [FEATURE][needs-docs] Show projection bounds in projection widget > (#5356) > > > - Script to pull bounds from EPSG.org Postgres dump > - Add resources/data/world_map.shp for reference > - Show canvas bounds for reference > > I’m guessing it comes from Natural Earth, but he would need to confirm. > Nathan can you add a license for that file? > > Regards > > Tim > > On 7 Jun 2019, at 09:53, Áron Gergely <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > <world.jpg> > Regards > > Tim > > On 27 May 2019, at 14:58, Raymond Nijssen <[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 > > > _______________________________________________ > QGIS-Developer mailing list > [email protected] > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > > > — > > > <KartozaNewLogoThumbnail.jpg> > > > > > > > *Tim Sutton* > > *Co-founder:* Kartoza > *Ex Project chair:* QGIS.org <http://qgis.org/> > > Visit http://kartoza.com to find out about open source: > > Desktop GIS programming services > Geospatial web development > GIS Training > Consulting Services > > *Skype*: timlinux > *IRC:* timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net > > I'd love to connect. Here's my calendar link > <https://calendly.com/timlinux> to make finding time easy. > > > _______________________________________________ > QGIS-Developer mailing [email protected] > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > > > > — > > > > > > > > > *Tim Sutton* > > *Co-founder:* Kartoza > *Ex Project chair:* QGIS.org > > Visit http://kartoza.com to find out about open source: > > Desktop GIS programming services > Geospatial web development > GIS Training > Consulting Services > > *Skype*: timlinux > *IRC:* timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net > > I'd love to connect. Here's my calendar link > <https://calendly.com/timlinux> to make finding time easy. > > _______________________________________________ > QGIS-Developer mailing list > [email protected] > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
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