[Qgis-developer] New Plugin - Edit Any Layer
Hi All, It seemed a little bit odd to me that QGIS is able to open many file types but you can only edit a couple of them. Being new to the world of GIS and therefore not understanding any of its history, this seemed as odd as photoshop being able to open but not edit jpeg files! In part of my work looking at adapting fTools / SEXTANTE to write to memory layer / any ogr format, I have created a standalone plugin that converts any vector layer to a memory layer (and therefore allows you to edit the layer). This plugin is hosted at [1], if you like I will move it to a more permanent location. Notes: * Filters for just vector layers (but could be further filtered to vector layers that cannot be edited in their current format). * No progress bar at the moment (at 1000's of features the plugin can take a little while so will add a progress bar at a later date). [1] http://ubuntuone.com/3Zl1ojo3ZMUJxMqj2kcZaX Regards, Rob ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
Re: [Qgis-developer] New Plugin - Edit Any Layer
Il 01/08/2012 17:39, Rob Nickerson ha scritto: In part of my work looking at adapting fTools / SEXTANTE to write to memory layer / any ogr format, I have created a standalone plugin that converts any vector layer to a memory layer (and therefore allows you to edit the layer). This plugin is hosted at [1], if you like I will move it to a more permanent location. thanks for this. of course the right place for it is http://plugins.qgis.org/ from there, everybody can install and check it. looking forward to see it there. all the best. -- Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia www.faunalia.eu Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc Nuovi corsi QGIS e PostGIS: http://www.faunalia.it/calendario ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
Re: [Qgis-developer] New Plugin - Edit Any Layer
On Aug 1, 2012, at 8:42 AM, Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it wrote: Il 01/08/2012 17:39, Rob Nickerson ha scritto: In part of my work looking at adapting fTools / SEXTANTE to write to memory layer / any ogr format, I have created a standalone plugin that converts any vector layer to a memory layer (and therefore allows you to edit the layer). This plugin is hosted at [1], if you like I will move it to a more permanent location. thanks for this. of course the right place for it is http://plugins.qgis.org/ from there, everybody can install and check it. looking forward to see it there. all the best. +1 Do you think you can host in through the qgis plugins repo referenced by Paolo? Cheers, John ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
Re: [Qgis-developer] New Plugin - Edit Any Layer
Yeah, happy to add it to the repo. I posted it here first to see if anyone had initial feedback. Will upload it in the next few days. Rob On , John C. Tull jct...@gmail.com wrote: On Aug 1, 2012, at 8:42 AM, Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it wrote: Il 01/08/2012 17:39, Rob Nickerson ha scritto: In part of my work looking at adapting fTools / SEXTANTE to write to memory layer / any ogr format, I have created a standalone plugin that converts any vector layer to a memory layer (and therefore allows you to edit the layer). This plugin is hosted at [1], if you like I will move it to a more permanent location. thanks for this. of course the right place for it is http://plugins.qgis.org/ from there, everybody can install and check it. looking forward to see it there. all the best. +1 Do you think you can host in through the qgis plugins repo referenced by Paolo? Cheers, John ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
Re: [Qgis-developer] New Plugin - Edit Any Layer
Hi, Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 16:39:01 +0100 From: Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com To: qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org Subject: [Qgis-developer] New Plugin - Edit Any Layer Message-ID: cak4yqtm9zxsyka8mveh+khhnfrs0zrcosc9ozszbphyyqsg...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hi All, It seemed a little bit odd to me that QGIS is able to open many file types but you can only edit a couple of them. Being new to the world of GIS and therefore not understanding any of its history, this seemed as odd as photoshop being able to open but not edit jpeg files! In part of my work looking at adapting fTools / SEXTANTE to write to memory layer / any ogr format, I have created a standalone plugin that converts any vector layer to a memory layer (and therefore allows you to edit the layer). This plugin is hosted at [1], if you like I will move it to a more permanent location. Notes: * Filters for just vector layers (but could be further filtered to vector layers that cannot be edited in their current format). Please don't restrict it like that. It is useful to be able to make a memory layer copy of even a layer that is writeable. You might even consider renaming it to reflect that - Copy as memory layer perhaps? What would be useful is an option to only copy the selected features. And it should work even with no selected features - this would provide a quick way to create an empty memory layer with the same attribute columns. * No progress bar at the moment (at 1000's of features the plugin can take a little while so will add a progress bar at a later date). [1] http://ubuntuone.com/3Zl1ojo3ZMUJxMqj2kcZaX Regards, Rob Nice plugin - good work! Alister ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
