Re: [Qgis-developer] Buffering/caching/auto-saving vector styles
On 2014/03/02 00:32, Ramon Andiñach wrote: On 01/03/2014, at 20:33 , Zoltan Szecsei wrote: Hi All, Sorry about the repeat, but Nathan felt I was hijacking his thread. Apologies. If there are going to be modifications done to styling, please consider adding a feature whereby the various styles chosen or experimented with, are auto-saved for that mapsheet (perhaps in your project files). I find when editing, edge-matching or QAing various mapsheets, I want to easily switch between styles - I might choose single symbol for the map I am editing, but rule-based for the adjoining maps. Rule based choices would change depending on scenarios, so it does not make sense to save a rule-based set (I could end up with too many). So, what I am seeking is the ability to switch between the 5 style categories, and not lose the ones I may have set up a few minutes ago. If I close QGIS, and come back to the project later, I would like to see the last styles I had set up for a mapsheet, still be available when I click through the style options. Hope I'm making myself clear. Thanks regards, Zoltan Hi Zoltan, This is what I'm currently doing to sort of get this effect. This isn't as complex as yours, but it might help. For some of the geology maps (say geology.shp) that I work with I normally look at them coloured by rock type. So my styling for maps becomes (geology.qml). Sometimes it's also useful to look at them by other features, say age or formation name, so I'll make some other styles for those (geology_age.qml) and geology_name.qml). The the layer opens up they way I expect, but I can also switch betweeen styles reasonably quickly. Do the rule change completely? or are they variations? If they're variations then saving still be useful. You might end up with a style files that you used as a road rulesets template and vegetation ruleset template, and then modified these for the job at hand. -ramon. ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Thanks for the thoughts, Ramon. The rules do change because I create the spontaneously. When I am QAing map compilations using various orthos, satellite imagery and whatever I have, the tone/clarity/resolution/ground colour changes as I pan accross the area, so I am changing the styles to (for that moment) suit the quality of the backdrop. So what happens is, is that I might set up a currently useful rules based style, I then pan across the AOI, and get to an area that is tonally very different so I might switch single-symbol, and then a few minutes later go back to my rule-based - but then I have to set it up again (because I didn't manually save it). The bigger picture: What if the QGIS Dev Team considered creating a mapname.qgis file in the directory where the map is stored. When a map layer is deleted (removed), one could get a pop-up asking if the .qgis file should be deleted or not (or just leave it, so as not to be irritated by pop-ups each time you remove a layer) The availability of this .qgis file is likely to then then inspire a host of other map-layer related uses (like the .prj file is for your project), but for me the currently useful one would be to stare the style-related states of the layer - ie: as you flip through the 5 style possibilities, you would not lose the most recent parameters you had set for any of the style options. My 2c. Regards, Zoltan -- === Zoltan Szecsei PrGISc [PGP0031] Geograph (Pty) Ltd. GIS and Photogrammetric Service P.O. Box 7, Muizenberg 7950, South Africa. Mobile: +27-83-6004028 Fax:+27-86-6115323 www.geograph.co.za === ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
Re: [Qgis-developer] Buffering/caching/auto-saving vector styles
Hi, This is a long-standing feature request: The ability to save more than one style and quickly select a different version of the stored style definitions. This should only affect the style and not the field widgets, filtering or other layer properties. This is also required for certain WMS: For example the SIA 2045 WMS standard in Switzerland requires to serve a color and a black-and-white version of the same data. So, there should be an arbitrary number of saved styles, also for the same classification method, not just one style per classification method. QGIS server should list all the available style sets and let the user choose from one. Is there already a feature request for this functionality at hub.qgis.org? Andreas Am 01.03.2014 12:33, schrieb Zoltan Szecsei: Hi All, Sorry about the repeat, but Nathan felt I was hijacking his thread. Apologies. If there are going to be modifications done to styling, please consider adding a feature whereby the various styles chosen or experimented with, are auto-saved for that mapsheet (perhaps in your project files). I find when editing, edge-matching or QAing various mapsheets, I want to easily switch between styles - I might choose single symbol for the map I am editing, but rule-based for the adjoining maps. Rule based choices would change depending on scenarios, so it does not make sense to save a rule-based set (I could end up with too many). So, what I am seeking is the ability to switch between the 5 style categories, and not lose the ones I may have set up a few minutes ago. If I close QGIS, and come back to the project later, I would like to see the last styles I had set up for a mapsheet, still be available when I click through the style options. Hope I'm making myself clear. Thanks regards, Zoltan ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
Re: [Qgis-developer] Buffering/caching/auto-saving vector styles
On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 9:07 PM, Andreas Neumann a.neum...@carto.net wrote: This should only affect the style and not the field widgets, filtering or other layer properties. Hey Andreas, I was going to start working on adding export ability for just the style part of the layer when I have some free time. This would go half way to achieving this goal. - Nathan ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
Re: [Qgis-developer] Buffering/caching/auto-saving vector styles
Hi Nathan, Yes it would be useful to let the user decide what parts of the layer properties should be exported and imported. Thanks for starting to work on this. Andreas I was going to start working on adding export ability for just the style part of the layer when I have some free time. This would go half way to achieving this goal. ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
[Qgis-developer] Buffering/caching/auto-saving vector styles
Hi All, Sorry about the repeat, but Nathan felt I was hijacking his thread. Apologies. If there are going to be modifications done to styling, please consider adding a feature whereby the various styles chosen or experimented with, are auto-saved for that mapsheet (perhaps in your project files). I find when editing, edge-matching or QAing various mapsheets, I want to easily switch between styles - I might choose single symbol for the map I am editing, but rule-based for the adjoining maps. Rule based choices would change depending on scenarios, so it does not make sense to save a rule-based set (I could end up with too many). So, what I am seeking is the ability to switch between the 5 style categories, and not lose the ones I may have set up a few minutes ago. If I close QGIS, and come back to the project later, I would like to see the last styles I had set up for a mapsheet, still be available when I click through the style options. Hope I'm making myself clear. Thanks regards, Zoltan -- === Zoltan Szecsei PrGISc [PGP0031] Geograph (Pty) Ltd. GIS and Photogrammetric Service P.O. Box 7, Muizenberg 7950, South Africa. Mobile: +27-83-6004028 Fax:+27-86-6115323 www.geograph.co.za === ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
Re: [Qgis-developer] Buffering/caching/auto-saving vector styles
On 01/03/2014, at 20:33 , Zoltan Szecsei wrote: Hi All, Sorry about the repeat, but Nathan felt I was hijacking his thread. Apologies. If there are going to be modifications done to styling, please consider adding a feature whereby the various styles chosen or experimented with, are auto-saved for that mapsheet (perhaps in your project files). I find when editing, edge-matching or QAing various mapsheets, I want to easily switch between styles - I might choose single symbol for the map I am editing, but rule-based for the adjoining maps. Rule based choices would change depending on scenarios, so it does not make sense to save a rule-based set (I could end up with too many). So, what I am seeking is the ability to switch between the 5 style categories, and not lose the ones I may have set up a few minutes ago. If I close QGIS, and come back to the project later, I would like to see the last styles I had set up for a mapsheet, still be available when I click through the style options. Hope I'm making myself clear. Thanks regards, Zoltan Hi Zoltan, This is what I'm currently doing to sort of get this effect. This isn't as complex as yours, but it might help. For some of the geology maps (say geology.shp) that I work with I normally look at them coloured by rock type. So my styling for maps becomes (geology.qml). Sometimes it's also useful to look at them by other features, say age or formation name, so I'll make some other styles for those (geology_age.qml) and geology_name.qml). The the layer opens up they way I expect, but I can also switch betweeen styles reasonably quickly. Do the rule change completely? or are they variations? If they're variations then saving still be useful. You might end up with a style files that you used as a road rulesets template and vegetation ruleset template, and then modified these for the job at hand. -ramon. ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
