Great job, Nyall! Ready for a next round of crowdfunding? Cheers. Il 07/04/20 03:27, Nyall Dawson ha scritto: > Hi list, > > Just wanted to give a heads up on a document I've recently completed, > which maps existing FME functionality across to the equivalent QGIS > Processing or Expression equivalent: > > https://github.com/nyalldawson/qgis-processing-hitlist/blob/master/fme.md > > Since FME transformers are both algorithm-like and expression-like > functionality, the document splits the QGIS equivalents into columns > for both algorithms and expressions. Wherever the transformer > functionality doesn't apply, a "N/A" is entered in the corresponding > column (e.g. the "StringCaseChanger" transformer doesn't make sense > the implement as a QGIS Processing algorithm -- it's equivalent is > instead the expression functions "lower", "upper" and "title". And > conversely the "DuplicateFilter" transformer maps to the Processing > algorithms "Delete Duplicate Geometries" and "Delete duplicates by > attribute", but doesn't make sense to have an expression function > equivalent!) > > There's also Transformers in FME which really don't need an equivalent > in QGIS -- e.g. those relating to styling features. > > Overall we have a good level of coverage of the most important > functionality. There's a LOT of low-hanging fruit which could easily > be addressed in small PRs (e.g. things like the > "CharacterCodeExtractor" transformer would be a trivial task to > implement as a new QGIS expression function ... a GREAT task for > someone getting started with QGIS development!). > > (and just for completeness - QGIS offers hundreds of processing > algorithms and expression functionality which **doesn't** have > equivalents in FME. I suspect the reverse document would have just as > many "missing" cells!) > > Feedback welcome! At some stage I think it would be nice to move this > document across to the QGIS repo, and possibly pull into the QGIS > documentation itself (along with similar documents for Arc/... > functionality!) > > Nyall > _______________________________________________ > 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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