If the QGIS team decides to add this feature, they might want to look at the freexl library. (Brought to you by Sandro of SpatiaLite fame.
http://www.gaia-gis.it/FreeXL/freexl-1.0.0a-doxy-doc/index.html David. On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 4:34 AM, Filipe Silva Dias <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I agree that such a tool would be very useful for many people. In my work I > frequently have to collect environmental variables in a GIS and then export > them to Excel/Calc for processing. To be able to this quickly with a few > clicks would save me (and many people) a lot of time and patience. > > In ArcGIS this is only possible via the XtoolsPro extension (which is partly > free), which directly exports the attribute table to a Excel spreadsheet ( > http://www.xtoolspro.com/tools.asp#e5 ). I used ArcGIS for several years and > during that time users kept asking ESRI to include the extension in core, > with no success. > > This is obviously a detail for QGIS development, but for many end users like > me, it makes a LOT of difference. Sometimes small details like these play a > huge role when it comes to decide to start using a software. > > Best regards > > > On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Giovanni Manghi <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Hi Andreas >> >> > Who else would be interested in such functionality? >> >> this is one of the features qgis users/trainees ask more around here. So >> I guess that if they represent a part of the qgis users universe, such >> feature will interest quite a lot of people :) >> >> cheers >> >> -- Giovanni -- >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > > > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
