On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:06 PM, Rowe, Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > I’m trying to make a tool that produces animations where a large number of > icons *smoothly* travel along waypoint paths on a map. Is QGIS appropriate > for this? Any pointers into the documentation? If not can anyone point me > to a good tool?
Hi Thomas, yes, it shouldn't be a problem to do animations within QGIS. Map canvas is based on Qt Graphics View framework [1], which is very powerful for such work. See map canvas [2] documentation. It might find some tutorials handy [3]. They're using c++ but they're also available in Python [4]. [1] http://doc.trolltech.com/4.6/graphicsview.html [2] http://doc.qgis.org/head/classQgsMapCanvas.html [3] http://blog.qgis.org/taxonomy/term/1 [4] http://blog.qgis.org/node/59 Martin _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
