RE: [Qgis-developer] RE: ECW!!!

2012-03-23 Thread Giovanni Manghi
> I am not "protesting": I look for solutions for my students! :) Hi Fred, as Frank said a new ecw plugin for gdal 1.9/the ecw free sdk should come soon into osgeo4w. cheers -- Giovanni -- ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.or

RE: [Qgis-developer] RE: ECW!!!

2012-03-23 Thread Fred ETHEVE
Hi, Barry, I do not understand your answer! In the French education, when the IGN(NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE) gives us rasters of a department for training, they are in ECW (10 Go by department!) what makes 100 Go in TIF: it is uncontrolled! But I had the other more constructive answers, in par

Re: [Qgis-developer] RE: ECW!!!

2012-03-23 Thread Frank Warmerdam
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 6:03 AM, Fred ETHEVE wrote: > Thank you, all, > ECW/win was OK with trunk (1.9.90) until 2 days before new nightly... > perhaps, since, gdal used has been 1.9???!!! Fred, Ah, ok, this is why I asked. I would encourage you to file a ticket against OSGeo4W. I will aim to

RE: [Qgis-developer] RE: ECW!!!

2012-03-23 Thread Even Rouault
Selon Fred ETHEVE : > Hi, > May we develop an Opensource .ECW, for example .OCW, with sources of > epsilon!? Well, you might just start by testing the files produced by Epsilon before inventing a new format ;-) As far as the ECW format itself, I don't think there will be an opensource implementat

Re: [Qgis-developer] RE: ECW!!!

2012-03-23 Thread Peter Borissow
I would not implement a new raster format.  I suggest you look at JPEG2000. Its wavelet based and there are several open source implementations (OpenJPEG, Jasper, etc) Peter From: Fred ETHEVE To: 'Even Rouault' ; cavall...@faunalia.it Cc: 'qgis-developer'

RE: [Qgis-developer] RE: ECW!!!

2012-03-23 Thread Fred ETHEVE
Hi, May we develop an Opensource .ECW, for example .OCW, with sources of epsilon!? Because working with larges rasters as 100 000 x 100 000 is now current, and it's not easy to manipulate .TIF > 30 Go! Best regards -Message d'origine- De : Even Rouault [mailto:even.roua...@mines-paris.org]

Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: Scripting QGIS from the outside using Python

2012-03-23 Thread Stefan Keller
This discussion goes somewhat similar as it was in the "dark days of hacking" when there was no requirement to add a unit test in new contributions to mature projects: Of course the code works without and it hopefully does its job for the contributor. But then, the arguments succeeded that it's the

Re: [Qgis-developer] intersect it plugin

2012-03-23 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 23/03/2012 14:11, Denis Rouzaud ha scritto: > 1. I don't really see the interest of using pixels for distance. In what case > would > it be needed? I think it is very unlikely we'll have measure in pixels. Do > you have > any example? not really (see below) > 2. I suggest to set this by set

RE: [Qgis-developer] RE: ECW!!!

2012-03-23 Thread Even Rouault
Selon Fred ETHEVE : > Thank you, all, > ECW/win was OK with trunk (1.9.90) until 2 days before new nightly... > perhaps, since, gdal used has been 1.9???!!! Yes, you should perhaps open a ticket (if not already done by someone else) in OSGeo4W trac instance to ask for the gdal-ecw plugin to be re

Re: [Qgis-developer] intersect it plugin

2012-03-23 Thread Denis Rouzaud
Hi Paolo, Thanks a lot for the feedback. 1. I don't really see the interest of using pixels for distance. In what case would it be needed? I think it is very unlikely we'll have measure in pixels. Do you have any example? 2. I suggest to set this by setting. I'll put an option to give number

RE: [Qgis-developer] RE: ECW!!!

2012-03-23 Thread Fred ETHEVE
Thank you, all, ECW/win was OK with trunk (1.9.90) until 2 days before new nightly... perhaps, since, gdal used has been 1.9???!!! It's time to have an opensource wavelets compression!!! 1) Somebody knows Epsilon CW? Is -it possible with GDAL1.9 linux and win? 2) How to grab one of the builds avai

Re: [Qgis-user] RE: [Qgis-developer] QGIS now with 100% more MS SQL 2008 support

2012-03-23 Thread Nathan Woodrow
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 9:47 PM, Tim Sutton wrote: > Finally a way to stop having to use PostGIS all the time|> Joke Flag > > Maybe it's just because it's so awesome that some people can't handle it :) > But seriously, well done for doing this guys! > > I hate to askbut any unit tests?

Re: [Qgis-user] RE: [Qgis-developer] QGIS now with 100% more MS SQL 2008 support

2012-03-23 Thread Tim Sutton
Hi On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Nathan Woodrow wrote: > MS SQL 2008 spatial. > Finally a way to stop having to use PostGIS all the time|> Joke Flag But seriously, well done for doing this guys! I hate to askbut any unit tests? Regards Tim > Sent from my Windows Phone > From: Nol

RE: [Qgis-developer] QGIS now with 100% more MS SQL 2008 support

2012-03-23 Thread Nathan Woodrow
MS SQL 2008 spatial. Sent from my Windows Phone From: Noli Sicad Sent: 23/03/2012 9:10 PM To: Nathan Woodrow Cc: qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org; qgis-user Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] QGIS now with 100% more MS SQL 2008 support Nathan, > QGIS now has a native MS SQL provider 2008. The provider

[Qgis-developer] intersect it plugin

2012-03-23 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Hi all. Testing the plugin. A couple of issues: - only map units can be used for distance; would it be possible to use also pixel? - the max length is only 3 digits; it would be good to use also larger numbers. Thanks. -- Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia www.faunalia.eu Full contact details at www.faun

Re: [Qgis-developer] QGIS now with 100% more MS SQL 2008 support

2012-03-23 Thread Noli Sicad
Nathan, > QGIS now has a native MS SQL provider 2008. The provider can found using > the new toolbar button (purple icon) or in the MS SQL node in the QBrowser > tree. Is it MS SQL 2008 Spatial or just MS SQL 2008? Noli ___ Qgis-developer mailing list

[Qgis-developer] QGIS Server API?

2012-03-23 Thread Alexander Bruy
Hi all is there any plans to make QGIS Sever API, something like MapServer's MapScript [0]? [0] http://mapserver.org/mapscript/index.html Thanks -- Alexander Bruy ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/ma

[Qgis-developer] QGIS now with 100% more MS SQL 2008 support

2012-03-23 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hey all, Good news everyone! [1] QGIS now has a native MS SQL provider 2008. The provider can found using the new toolbar button (purple icon) or in the MS SQL node in the QBrowser tree. The work was sponsored by *Digital Mapping Solutions* (Australia)[2] and completed by Tamas Szekeres Any bu

[Qgis-developer] Re: Internationalisation of Cookbook and User Manual

2012-03-23 Thread Paolo Corti
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 5:11 AM, Tim Sutton wrote: > @Paolo Corti - can you confirm if it was also your idea to use gettext > approach and if that works with the web translation platform you will > implement? By the way newer versions of QtLinguist can deal with .po > files too so there is a nice

[Qgis-developer] QGIS news during FOSSGIS

2012-03-23 Thread Pirmin Kalberer
Hi, Am Mittwoch, 21. März 2012, 20.18:39 schrieb Tim Sutton: > > Does anyone have thoughts on a nice name and logo for the 1.8 release? > Candidates might be Lisbon, Zurich, Lyon or something different? It was a little bit unfair to start the popular name discussion in the middle of the FOSSGIS

[Qgis-developer] alsmost unusable identify and select tools

2012-03-23 Thread Denis Rouzaud
Hi, Since one or two weeks, in master, I have problems with the identify and select tools. When identifying or selecting a single feature, I have around 80-95% of failed clicks (i.e. no results, or even a wrng feature). When I use select by rectangle, the behavior is better but not perfect ei

Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: Scripting QGIS from the outside using Python

2012-03-23 Thread Jürgen E . Fischer
Hi Nathan, On Fri, 23. Mar 2012 at 17:20:59 +1000, Nathan Woodrow wrote: >I'm thinking, Is there some way to scan the public C++ API and check if >it has a sip binding? At least none that I know of - assuming you mean something automatic ;) Jürgen -- Jürgen E. Fischer norBIT

Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: Scripting QGIS from the outside using Python

2012-03-23 Thread Nathan Woodrow
I'm thinking, Is there some way to scan the public C++ API and check if it has a sip binding? - Nathan On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Jürgen E. wrote: > Hi Marco, > > On Tue, 20. Mar 2012 at 16:47:19 +0100, Marco Hugentobler wrote: > > But ok, even if it is easier for the code author to reso

Re: [Qgis-developer] Translation files - creating a .pro file

2012-03-23 Thread Jürgen E . Fischer
Hi Bert, On Tue, 20. Mar 2012 at 09:35:14 -0700, bertGIS wrote: > How can we do to create a .pro file in order to generate .ts files, taking > in account a python plugins UI files ? scripts/update_ts_files.sh does that. > Can we have a correct .pro using QTCreator ? I think you can use cmake wi

Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: Scripting QGIS from the outside using Python

2012-03-23 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 23/03/2012 08:10, Jürgen E. Fischer ha scritto: > I second that. We should not put strong requirements on contributions. Neat > things could not find their way into QGIS if we require people to jump though > many hoops. > If people need more than there is, they can always ask for it (filing

RE: [Qgis-developer] RE: ECW!!!

2012-03-23 Thread Jože Detečnik
Hello, On Windows we work with ECW a long time and work very well. (QGIS 1.7.4, GDAL 1.8). Currently it's a problem on GDAL 1.9 and trunk versions because ECW GDAL plugin not exist. Regards, Joze -Original Message- From: qgis-developer-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:qgis-developer-b

Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: Scripting QGIS from the outside using Python

2012-03-23 Thread Jürgen E . Fischer
Hi Marco, On Tue, 20. Mar 2012 at 16:47:19 +0100, Marco Hugentobler wrote: > But ok, even if it is easier for the code author to resolve that. There > is still the fact that in an opensource project people work what they > are interested in (or what they need for their job). So telling other