Hello Marcus, The feature I believe you are describing is being worked by a few developer, have a look in this pull request:
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/1254 Maybe it lands in QGIS 2.4 :) Alexandre Neto On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 2:57 PM, kmgkmgkmgkmg . <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone.. > > I will be going on a little bit here now.. > > Wonder how to create a clip/mask layer or do something to the same effect? > More specifically, how to make a rectangular area of longitude and > latitude coordinates that enables to cut away the area not needed in other > layers? > > Since stuck with a quarter of the World or even the entire World in my > little project. This question is for shape file layers mostly, have not > gotten to the .tiff yet. They are not global though larger then needed. So > a universal solution for both types would be nice. > > Is there a python console command to do this? > Is there a plugin to do this? > Is there a online service to create such a layer? > Is it possible from within QGIS? > > Have tried the make a rectangle plugin, it cuts out zero features. > Also tried clipping with a layer of not the right shape and it says that > they do not have the right projection, even though it looks as they do, and > end up with a blank layer. > > Sure plenty people have this problem, though the forums do not have any > clear explanations as I found nothing that really explains, even youtube > got one but that is for regional borders. > > Is there some way of just knocking in the longitude and latitude to do > this? > Please assist. Do not get why this should be so difficult. > > Why does not QGIS ask first thing which area of the planet you wish to > work on a project? And then just filter out it automatically when you load > layer that include more than that? Perhaps this could be a feature of a > future release? > > With hopes for many answers and simple solutions. I repeat just want a > specified area that easily can be determined by longitude and latitude > coordinates. > > Yours hopefully.. > Marcus > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >
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