[Qgis-user] Re: Delete a field via GUI
Ciao Giovanni, thank you very much. Giovanni Manghi wrote: On Sat, 2011-05-07 at 02:40 -0700, iomeneandrei wrote: no because OGR doesn't allow it. There is a patch (in ogr) already available but has not been applied yet. On Linux the table manager plugin let you save the modified shape without needing to make a copy. I think it's important to have applied it in OGR as soon as possible. Do you have some tips useful to solicit for it? Probably it seems something not so important, but I think it puts qgis (with a certain type of user) in a bad light. In my work I try to spread opensource gis software, and qsis as Desktop GIS. I meet often user that have a basic GIS training (often based on Esri products), and they remain very surprised when they realize that you can not delete a column in QGIS. Then I show them table manager plugin and they do not appreciate the need to make a layer duplicate (most of these users use windows); especially because GIS applications often produce a great number of files, and they do not appreciate the fact that the number of files increases only because you need to rename a column. These are only stupid examples, but sometimes I have had users that starting from this kind of basic limitation have evaluated QGIS an immature product (It is not able to rename a column, is able to do spatial analysis?). Probably it's better that QGIS never met this kind of users, but I think that to spread the use of this fantastic software, it's important to solve also this kind of limitations. About table manager plugin: is there two version of table manager plugin? Or is the power of Linux? Best regards, Andrea - Andrea Borruso email: aborr...@tin.it website: http://blog.spaziogis.it my 2.0 life: http://aborruso.spaziogis.it feed: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/Tanto 38° 7' 48 N, 13° 21' 9 E -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/Delete-a-field-via-GUI-tp6339817p6339931.html Sent from the qgis-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] Re: Delete a field via GUI
I think it's important to have applied it in OGR as soon as possible. Do you have some tips useful to solicit for it? http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2671 Probably it seems something not so important, but I think it puts qgis (with a certain type of user) in a bad light. In my work I try to spread opensource gis software, and qsis as Desktop GIS. I meet often user that have a basic GIS training (often based on Esri products), and they remain very surprised when they realize that you can not delete a column in QGIS. Then I show them table manager it is not a QGIS issue, is an OGR one. So every gis software that uses ogr and that allows to delete columns in a shapefile do it trough a workaround. In qgis this workaround is called table manager. plugin and they do not appreciate the need to make a layer duplicate (most of these users use windows); this is a windows issue. About table manager plugin: is there two version of table manager plugin? no (see above). ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
[Qgis-user] Re: Delete a field via GUI
Ciao Gioavanni, Giovanni Manghi wrote: it is not a QGIS issue, is an OGR one. So every gis software that uses ogr and that allows to delete columns in a shapefile do it trough a workaround. In qgis this workaround is called table manager. I have read in in your previous email that it's an OGR issue. As QGIS user and promoter I wanted to emphasize its importance. Thank for the link. Cheers, a - Andrea Borruso email: aborr...@tin.it website: http://blog.spaziogis.it my 2.0 life: http://aborruso.spaziogis.it feed: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/Tanto 38° 7' 48 N, 13° 21' 9 E -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/Delete-a-field-via-GUI-tp6339817p6339963.html Sent from the qgis-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] Re: Delete a field via GUI
About table manager plugin: is there two version of table manager plugin? no (see above). Strictly speaking, there is stable version 0.2.x and experimental 0.3.x for Qgis 1.7. The latter contains translations and saving to various formats. But the windows issue attects both and I won't fix it soon. Maybe someone is willing to help? It shouldn't be too hard - the problem is with multiaccess to the file, so it should be removed from the mapcanvas before saving by tablemanager and then loaded again. Anyway, I agree with Andrea the ogr problem puts a bad impression on Qgis, so we should encourage ogr folks to apply the patch soon :) B. ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
