Hi Calvin, all On 26/08/19 22:29, C Hamilton wrote: > I think the Featured Plugin list should be a combination of some of the > most beneficial plugins and a few potentially important new plugins. I'm > not sure how to judge that latter part. Each GIS organization usually > have different focuses so different plugins will be applicable to > different organizations. I think for some of the new plugins you can > highlight them for a few months and then depending on how they do, > remove them from the list and highlight new ones. Even though I have two > plugins on the list, which I appreciate, I don't think you need to feel > obligated to keep any plugin on the list just because you currently have > it there or you feel obligated to their authors.
agreed > QuickMapServices > Lat Lon Tools > Shape Tools > Plugin Reloader > Memory Layer Saver all featured already > I would second Quick OSM because people I work with use it frequently. also featured > I don't consider "Profile Tool" to be perfect, but I find it useful to > generate cross sections on DEMS. There are 4 plugins that create > profiles, but I would say that "Profile Tool" is the easiest to use. The > plugin "Temporal/Spectral Profile Tool" probably should not have been > accepted as a QGIS plugin because it is a modified version of the > Profile Tool. I can't get it to work. That author should have worked > with the Profile Tool author to make a better plugin. VoGIS Profile Tool > is also very similar. qProf seems to be a little more advanced. > Ultimately, it would be nice to merge all 4 into one tool. > > For simplicity I recommend "Profile Tool." For more advanced analysis qProf. agreed; I approached the authors and tried to convince them to merge their work, unsuccessfully until now. I'll try again. > I don't know if "Value Tool" should be featured or not. It's sole > function is to examine pixel values as the mouse hovers over them and > sometimes I need that. Only small portion of users would need this > capability. I'm sure it was written because the Identify Results does > not have the mouse motion view that it does. A little enhancement of > Identify Results would make it obsolete. agreed, the functionality should go to core. would you mind checking if a feature request is already open, and open it if necessary? > I personally really dislike the OpenLayers plugin as I tend to have > trouble with it. Because of the issues people have had with it, I am > guessing that its star ratings and downloads have been manipulated. > Because I have not tried it for a while I just installed it and guess > what, I got python errors so it is now uninstalled. this is a widespread opinion > The mmqgis plugin has a number of tools; however, the author did not > update it to make use of the QGIS 3 architecture. Its output defaults to > a Shapefile and most of the tools could really be Processing routines. agreed; it would be nice if someone would offer help to MM for the migration. Cheers. -- Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu QGIS.ORG Chair: http://planet.qgis.org/planet/user/28/tag/qgis%20board/ _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user