Re: [QGIS-Developer] R provider for QGIS 3 - any interest?

2018-05-02 Thread Barry Rowlingson
at 22:10, Barry Rowlingson > <b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk> wrote: > > As a long-time R spatial developer and QGIS user I'll be glad to help > out - > > but time-poor at work for now. "Helping out" may be more like "making > > unreasonable suggest

Re: [QGIS-Developer] R provider for QGIS 3 - any interest?

2018-04-26 Thread Barry Rowlingson
As a long-time R spatial developer and QGIS user I'll be glad to help out - but time-poor at work for now. "Helping out" may be more like "making unreasonable suggestions" and "finding annoying bugs". For example, can we find a more efficient way to transfer data from QGIS to R? Can the new `sf`

[QGIS-Developer] Dynamic linking a new PROJ.4 problem

2017-12-31 Thread Barry Rowlingson
Someone on the GIS stackexchange site wants to use the "Authagraph" projection for maps (its a bit like a Dymaxion): https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/266581/how-can-i-use-the-authagraph-projection-in-qgis I thought this might be as easy as recompiling PROJ.4 with the patches given in a

Re: [QGIS-Developer] USNG Coordinate System

2017-06-12 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 12:12 AM, Joshua Quesenberry wrote: > Good Evening Everyone, > > > > I haven’t seen any replies to my post over the weekend. Can someone take a > look? And still no replies! I've had a look. You might know all this already but I'll include it for

Re: [Qgis-developer] Google Summer of Code liaison officer

2017-04-10 Thread Barry Rowlingson
ng like an internal ranking and survey about the >> proposals but still - we have to few mentors. >> >> So please any developers willing step up and give new developers a >> chance to get deeper into QGIS. >> >> As a member of the QGIS community and currently helping

Re: [Qgis-developer] Google Summer of Code liaison officer

2017-04-06 Thread Barry Rowlingson
s. > > So please any developers willing step up and give new developers a > chance to get deeper into QGIS. > > As a member of the QGIS community and currently helping osgeo-gsoc > admin team I would really like to see QGIS in the GsoC projects. > > regards > Werner &

[Qgis-developer] Google Summer of Code liaison officer

2017-04-06 Thread Barry Rowlingson
Who is the liaison officer for QGIS' GSoC proposals? There was an email from Margherita Di Leo on the OSGeo-GSoC list about the liaison officer having to review submitted proposals, but I didn't see anyone claiming to be the QGIS liaison officer. There are currently five QGIS proposals in the

Re: [Qgis-developer] QGIS remote control API

2017-03-15 Thread Barry Rowlingson
http://gis.stackexchange.com/users/19667/luigi-pirelli > * GitHub: https://github.com/luipir > * Mastering QGIS 2nd Edition: > * > https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/mastering-qgis-second-edition > *****

Re: [Qgis-developer] QGIS remote control API

2017-03-14 Thread Barry Rowlingson
I'm doing some spatial analysis with R. I've read in a shapefile: > data = shapefile("input.shp") then I've done some analysis: > data$stats = something(data) Now I want to map it. I can use R's plot function, but that's not interactive, hard to add background layers and style, no labelling,

[Qgis-developer] QGIS remote control API

2017-03-13 Thread Barry Rowlingson
My first job was in integrating spatial statistics and GIS. In those days (1990) that meant Arc/Info version 4 and FORTRAN, until we discovered S-Plus and ditched Arc/Info for real statistics software. Twenty six years on and still thinking about integration. Some of you may have seen my very

Re: [Qgis-developer] Fwd: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Google Summer of Code ideas page: action required latest by February 5th!

2017-02-01 Thread Barry Rowlingson
Okay, I've found the QGIS GSoC suggestions, I'll add my project. On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 5:50 PM, Rowlingson, Barry wrote: > Is there a wiki or somewhere a list of qgis-based projects for GSoC? > I'd like to propose a QGIS-R mapping interface > > I've mentored

Re: [Qgis-developer] Fwd: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Google Summer of Code ideas page: action required latest by February 5th!

2017-02-01 Thread Barry Rowlingson
Is there a wiki or somewhere a list of qgis-based projects for GSoC? I'd like to propose a QGIS-R mapping interface I've mentored a couple of projects in the past, would be nice to do another one. On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 5:22 PM, Werner Macho wrote: > Hi all! > > And

Re: [Qgis-developer] symbology dialog missing icon resources when called from python script

2016-07-27 Thread Barry Rowlingson
Thanks Martin, I've got that working and added the process as an answer to the Stack Exchange question. On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 2:21 PM, Martin Dobias <wonder...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Barry > > On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 12:04 PM, Barry Rowlingson > <b.rowling...@lancaster

[Qgis-developer] symbology dialog missing icon resources when called from python script

2016-07-27 Thread Barry Rowlingson
I'm trying to run the Qgis symbology dialog from a standalone python script, and there's some error messages about icons and the icons under the symbol layer list are blank. I can't find any difference between the various search paths in QGIS (where it works fine) and my script. Full details and

Re: [Qgis-developer] Will be submitting new QGIS D3 Chart plugin - experimental or not

2016-07-21 Thread Barry Rowlingson
[bit off-topic, more about the viz itself than the plugin repo policy on "experimental" status] On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 3:39 PM, Neumann, Andreas wrote: > It looks like a very nice plugin - thank you for developing and submitting > it! Definitely useful for people doing

Re: [Qgis-developer] setting QgsMapCanvas size, for testing map tools

2016-06-30 Thread Barry Rowlingson
Maybe I've missed something here, but doesn't the canvas resize method set the canvas pixel size? This behaves as expected when run standalone from a python prompt. from qgis.core import * from qgis.gui import * app = QgsApplication([],True) canvas = QgsMapCanvas() canvas.show()

Re: [Qgis-developer] QGIS/Linux on high-resolution displays

2016-06-08 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 6:24 AM, Alessandro Pasotti <apaso...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2016-06-07 23:17 GMT+02:00 Barry Rowlingson <b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk>: >> >> Ive just bought a Dell XPS13 which came with Ubuntu 14.04 >> pre-installed. The screen is 3200 pi

Re: [Qgis-developer] Aggregates within expression engine

2016-03-16 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 6:17 AM, Nyall Dawson wrote: > I'm also torn regarding the best syntax to use for aggregates within > expressions. I'm unsure if the traditional SQL "group by" clauses > would be a good fit within the existing QGIS expression syntax (eg >

Re: [Qgis-developer] There is a way to eliminate the "Recent Projects" startup screen ?

2015-11-11 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 3:13 PM, Mathieu Pellerin wrote: > It'd still be good to know why you want the recent project disabled on > startup. Privacy? Would you like your web browser to show your browser history on startup? That's an extreme analogy, but there may be

[Qgis-developer] Behaviour when SpatiaLite tables change

2015-11-08 Thread Barry Rowlingson
What should QGIS do when a SpatiaLite table changes from outside QGIS? Here's what I'm doing... I have a SpatiaLite spatial data table of ten points with an id and name column. It loads into QGIS and I can access the "name" attribute as expected to style the points and label them. Then I open

Re: [Qgis-developer] Question about statistics panel

2015-10-20 Thread Barry Rowlingson
Ah yes, all the statistical summaries are computed here: https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/blob/2aa2040e77b1682f00b4e00a4f19c8ff268e9499/src/core/qgsstatisticalsummary.cpp and there its defined as the number of items in the thing that is storing the item values: case Variety: return

Re: [Qgis-developer] Question about statistics panel

2015-10-20 Thread Barry Rowlingson
I suspect its the number of different values that the attribute takes. So if all the chosen attribute values are "42", the variety is 1. If all the attributes are "42" except for one which is "leopard" and one which is "slartibartfast" then the variety is 3. I've got this from playing with

Re: [Qgis-developer] Kriging interpolation functionality in QGIS?

2015-09-28 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Victor Olaya wrote: > From the point of view of user-friendliness, the Processing > implementation (wrapping the corresponding SAGA modules), might not be > as easy to use as some people would like, but for tools such as > kriging I am

Re: [Qgis-developer] Kriging interpolation functionality in QGIS?

2015-09-26 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 6:46 PM, Stefan Keller wrote: > Hi Barry > > Many thanks for your explanations and hints. > So from a pragmatic point-of-view ("80/20 pareto rule"): > Do you think Inverse Distance Weighting (IDW) would do the job as well, > since Kriging has so many

Re: [Qgis-developer] Kriging interpolation functionality in QGIS?

2015-09-25 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Stefan Keller wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a Kriging interpolation from an irregular point data > set to raster data in QGIS without dependencies, if possible. There's > 1. Interpolation plugin (C++) [1] > 2. „Raster

[Qgis-developer] Updating a layer when data changes

2015-08-28 Thread Barry Rowlingson
I'm trying to make a layer redraw when the underlying data changes. This seemed to work well in 2.8 but is very unreliable in 2.10. I am trying to do the following: * create a point shapefile (from R) with a 'z' attribute having values between 0 and 1 * load into qgis, use a graduated renderer

Re: [Qgis-developer] Simple sample code for function editor

2015-03-09 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Larissa Junek ju...@gbd-consult.de wrote: Hello all, I'm writing a new chapter about the new function editor for the user manual 2.8. I'm not confirmed with PYthon programmming. See

[Qgis-developer] Qgis sip problems - virtualenv to blame

2014-01-05 Thread Barry Rowlingson
Hi all I've just spent an hour install qgis on a new Mint linux (saucy) box. Here is the tale... I was using the qgis repo (because there's no ubuntugis for saucy at the moment) and getting very weird behaviour. Installing the python-qgis package removed the qgis package. And vice versa. I

Re: [Qgis-developer] Vincenty's Formulae

2013-12-12 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Jorge Tornero - Listas jtorlis...@gmail.com wrote: But I want to perform another calculation: Calculate the destination point P2 given an departure point P, a bearing B and a distance D. That's what direct Vincenty Formulae performs and it's what I'm looking

Re: [Qgis-developer] install instructions

2013-09-30 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 8:15 PM, Alex Mandel tech_...@wildintellect.com wrote: Barry - To clarify again, the Ubuntugis version is the same version of QGIS, what differs is GDAL, PROJ and GEOS - by significant version, ie gdal 1.8 vs 1.10 This is critical because 1.10.x supports more of the

Re: [Qgis-developer] install instructions

2013-09-30 Thread Barry Rowlingson
, Barry Rowlingson wrote: On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 8:15 PM, Alex Mandel tech_...@wildintellect.com wrote: Barry - To clarify again, the Ubuntugis version is the same version of QGIS, what differs is GDAL, PROJ and GEOS - by significant version, ie gdal 1.8 vs 1.10 This is critical because 1.10.x

Re: [Qgis-developer] install instructions

2013-09-29 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 7:40 PM, Alex Mandel tech_...@wildintellect.com wrote: Sounds like it needs a little more clean up. Yes, its not very friendly for Linux beginners who may never have edited apt sources files before. It may be a better idea to suggest putting the deb lines into

[Qgis-developer] install instructions

2013-09-27 Thread Barry Rowlingson
I've just upgraded to Linux Mint 15 and had some trouble installing QGIS. I followed the instructions on the shiny new web pages for Raring Ringtail. The instructions seem to imply adding both qgis.org and the ubuntugis PPA to sources. The qgis.org repo seems to have 2.0.1-2, and ubuntugis had

Re: [Qgis-developer] Coordination of Hackfest with FOSS4G

2013-05-29 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Richard Duivenvoorde rdmaili...@duif.net wrote: if I understand correctly, Tuesday 17 and Wednesday 18 are the hackdays of foss4g which normally were done after the conference. But now combined with the workshops which normally preceded the conference. My

Re: [Qgis-developer] [Qgis-user] [Qgis-psc] Logo

2013-04-18 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 12:45 AM, MORREALE Jean Roc jr.morre...@enoreth.net wrote: Andyzendy (#50) for me : simple, easily downscalable to 16x16 (great for taskbar/favicon), can be converted to greyscale (good for print) I really don't understand the love for #50. It either reads as GIS-uantum,

Re: [Qgis-developer] WMS Server plugin

2013-04-16 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 6:55 AM, Marco Hugentobler marco.hugentob...@sourcepole.ch wrote: Hi Barry You can use the QGIS cloud plugin to publish web maps without having apache / fcgi server installed on the local machine. That's just adding a bit more complexity again... I think the best

Re: [Qgis-developer] WMS Server plugin

2013-04-16 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Andreas Neumann a.neum...@carto.net wrote: Hi Barry, The use case of generating reports should not require running QGIS server. I think that QGIS desktop should first offer such functionality that maybe later on could be exposed in QGIS server as well.

Re: [Qgis-developer] [Qgis-user] [Qgis-psc] Logo

2013-04-16 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Anita Graser anitagra...@gmx.at wrote: From all the submitted ones so far, I'd still go with http://99designs.com/logo-design/contests/qgis-needs-logo-210397/entries/50 I don't think the Q is Q-y enough, and is a bit detached from uantum. QGIS has no

Re: [Qgis-developer] [Qgis-user] [Qgis-psc] Logo

2013-04-15 Thread Barry Rowlingson
One thing about this logo is to make sure it doesn't look anything like any other existing mappy s/w logos or any other product with Quantum in the name. Doing a google image search for Quantum logo will show you about 200 different corporate logos with 'Quantum' in the name! Barry On Mon, Apr

Re: [Qgis-developer] Plugins meeting

2013-04-14 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it wrote: The general idea is that plugins are now a crucial part of the QGIS experience for the users, and we cannot treat them as completely disconnected from the main project, but we should take some responsibility for

[Qgis-developer] WMS Server plugin

2013-04-14 Thread Barry Rowlingson
Did I dream it, or was there once a plugin that offered up the layers of a running Qgis Desktop as a WMS (or some other W?S)? I was hoping for a lightweight way of offering Qgis maps as a web service without needing apache and the qgis fcgi map server. Can't find anything like it now. Did I

Re: [Qgis-developer] Get rid of Shapefiles ! Go GeoJSON !

2012-11-26 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 3:12 PM, kimaidou kimai...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list, The subject is a bit polemical, on purpose. I am used to playing with Postgis, spatialite and GeoJson, which are all open-source ways to store spatial data. I am very frustrated by the limitations of the Shapefile

Re: [Qgis-developer] Get rid of Shapefiles ! Go GeoJSON !

2012-11-26 Thread Barry Rowlingson
[apologies for empty previous message, I blame google for putting [...] next to 'Send'. This message has real content: On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 3:12 PM, kimaidou kimai...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list, The subject is a bit polemical, on purpose. I am used to playing with Postgis, spatialite and

Re: [Qgis-developer] Webpage

2012-11-14 Thread Barry Rowlingson
Meanwhile the word on the osgeo-discuss mailing list is 'awesome!'. I honestly looked at this new GRASS web site and thought I was still looking at the old one (not that I go there much). Rounded corners, wrong use of tabs, poor handling of narrow screens (the tabs wrap and the content gets pushed

Re: [Qgis-developer] Shutting down snippets.qgis.org ?

2012-10-07 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Alessandro Pasotti apaso...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm cleaning the web app interface and I wonder if we should move the very few contents of the snippets application to the wiki and shut it down completely. The first snippet is just spam

Re: [Qgis-developer] implement data provider in python?

2012-08-29 Thread Barry Rowlingson
I have a vague memory that the python data provider idea was considered a while ago. I was thinking about how one could get direct access from Qgis to R spatial data sets stored in R's binary files. One method would have been to write a provider in python that used Rpy to bridge to R, but wasn't

Re: [Qgis-developer] R scripts for raster layers in External Apps of the Sextante Toolbox plugin

2012-08-27 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Rowlingson, Barry b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk wrote: What is the R code being run here? Some R advanced graphics functions need to be wrapped in a 'print' function in order to actually produce output on a graphics device, and so when run non-interactively,

Re: [Qgis-developer] R scripts for raster layers in External Apps of the Sextante Toolbox plugin

2012-08-27 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Werner Macho werner.ma...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Agustin Lobo alobolis...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I've tried the R script in scripts/Raster histogram and do not get any plot, just get what can be seen here (after trying multiple

Re: [Qgis-developer] R scripts for raster layers in External Apps of the Sextante Toolbox plugin

2012-08-27 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Etienne Tourigny etourigny@gmail.com wrote: You are right, because shell=True is used when command is a string, not an array. Plus it's deemed a security hazard: Warning Invoking the system shell with shell=True can be a security hazard if combined with

Re: [Qgis-developer] R scripts for raster layers in External Apps of the Sextante Toolbox plugin

2012-08-27 Thread Barry Rowlingson
: On 08/27/2012 04:12 PM, Barry Rowlingson wrote: I think the subprocess.Popen call in RUtils is at fault. The command is a list, but I think shell=True causes it to be sent to the shell as a command line. If you concatenate (join) the command list with spaces into a single string, this works

[Qgis-developer] 8-bit colour ramps?

2012-08-09 Thread Barry Rowlingson
Someone on gis.stackexchange.com: http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/29357/how-to-improve-the-display-of-color-images says, about colour ramps: but in ArcGIS and QGIS, they don't seem to be easily usable for a finished product because their complexity causes obvious steps rather than a

Re: [Qgis-developer] WCS and Raster improvements for QGIS

2012-07-12 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Tim Sutton li...@linfiniti.com wrote: Yes writing tests into the project plan and explaining the value of investing in them to the clients is the way to go! In this case it was an easy sell since we are using the work in the project to build software that

Re: [Qgis-developer] crash on close without layer

2012-05-08 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Giovanni Manghi giovanni.man...@faunalia.pt wrote: I cannot confirm on both ubuntu 64bit and Windows. Me neither, 1.7.4 on ubuntu lucid. What exactly causes it? I'm doing start qgis from command line, then File... Quit, or Ctrl-Q, or hitting the window manager

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

2012-03-24 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Fred ETHEVE fred.eth...@wanadoo.fr wrote: 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

Re: [Qgis-developer] Teaching with Qgis

2011-11-17 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Tim Sutton li...@linfiniti.com wrote: What licenses are these released under? We should be so lucky. There's no mention of licenses so I shall assume they are copyright University of Maine and treat them with that in mind. I'm not sure there's even any obvious

[Qgis-developer] Teaching with Qgis

2011-11-16 Thread Barry Rowlingson
The GIS teaching in our environmental faculty here uses commercial GIS software. There is some mumbling about introducing Open Source but this year's students will not have the pleasure. As I've expressed an interest in teaching with Qgis, I thought I would have a look at some typical GIS

Re: [Qgis-developer] WPS plugin not connecting (proxy?)

2011-10-14 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it wrote: Hi all. I set up the proxy in qgis, and everything is working, except for the Elevation plugin (as I already wrote) and WPS plugin: do they both use another method for accessing the web, bypassing the proxy setting?

Re: [Qgis-developer] shx missing

2011-10-07 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it wrote: Hi all. If the .shx file is missing for a given .shp, qgis will correctly complain and will not load the shapefile. Apparently in other sw this issue is solved by rebuilding the shx[0] (it seems a common problem

Re: [Qgis-developer] shx missing

2011-10-07 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Martin Dobias wonder...@gmail.com wrote: Not really. shx file is there just for faster indexing. However I do not see a reason why shx file couldn't be recovered from a shp file - it consists of sequentially written records with variable size, each record has a

Re: [Qgis-developer] Polishing QGIS

2011-09-26 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Nathan Woodrow madman...@gmail.com wrote: FYI a good site for doing UI mockup is http://builds.balsamiq.com/b/mockups-web-demo/ I've looked at these sorts of wireframe mockup builders a bit - but for Qgis, a Qt application, isn't it just easier to drag n drop

Re: [Qgis-developer] Feature: Auto saving for layers

2011-09-17 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 6:10 AM, Nathan Woodrow madman...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All,  After that a timer fires at the interval and saves the layer for you.  I thought a per-layer auto save feature is better then a blanket auto save for all as it gives the user more control. I wrote a plugin

Re: [Qgis-developer] Feature: Auto saving for layers

2011-09-17 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Nathan Woodrow madman...@gmail.com wrote: I did have a look at your code when I started working on the auto save layer thing.  I didn't take that approach as I didn't think relying on renderComplete would work with saving layers.  In my mind I would like QGIS

Re: [Qgis-developer] Qgis custom buil to read obfuscated data

2011-09-16 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 8:56 PM, Marco Hugentobler marco.hugentob...@sourcepole.ch wrote: Hi Giovanni  The simplest solution might be to encrypt the data and send the key to your clients. Simplest, but if you send the key in plaintext then you might as well send the data in plaintext -

Re: [Qgis-developer] Qgis custom buil to read obfuscated data

2011-09-16 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:14 AM, G. Allegri gioha...@gmail.com wrote: I've been asked to create a custom qgis, to be distributed via CD/DVD along with some data (vector and raster) that should be only visible and usable thorugh the customized qgis and not by any other tool. Has somebody in

Re: [Qgis-developer] Feature request Zoom out variably

2011-08-15 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Andreas Neumann a.neum...@carto.net wrote: Hi Lasse, Can you please register this feature request at http://hub.qgis.org/projects/quantum-gis/issues/new ? (you need to have/create a login). Ideally you can provide some details, or even better already know a

Re: [Qgis-developer] Convert v1.7 project files to v1.6?

2011-07-01 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 10:41 AM, uk52rob uk52...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: All, I have now moved back to v1.6 after the many issues faced with v1.7, and I support Andreas Neumann’s e-mail of yesterday. The issue I am now up against is that v1.6 cannot open v1.7 project files, it simply

[Qgis-developer] ESA Summer of Code In Space

2011-06-29 Thread Barry Rowlingson
Hi All, the European Space Agency has announced a Summer Of Code project, much like (but independent of) Google's SOC project: http://sophia.estec.esa.int/socis2011/ just thought maybe someone out there has some spacey ideas for Qgis - perhaps a tool to load Martian DEMs from the NASA web

Re: [Qgis-developer] ESA Summer of Code In Space

2011-06-29 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Andreas Neumann a.neum...@carto.net wrote: one idea that comes to my mind which is missing in QGIS rasters: Support of resampling methods for the display of the raster data (bilinear,cubic,cubicspline,lanczos). Gdal supports these, but QGIS does not use them.

Re: [Qgis-developer] New Python console idea: Expanding the Python console to handle DSLs for plugins eg CADTools

2011-06-17 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 4:36 AM, Nathan Woodrow madman...@gmail.com wrote: Well would that be such a bad thing? The DSLs can return a object from the evaluated string so why not let them be mixed.  This would mean you can do things like: mypythonVar = (SQL:Select Sum(column) From Table)

Re: [Qgis-developer] New Python console idea: Expanding the Python console to handle DSLs for plugins eg CADTools

2011-06-17 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Nathan Woodrow madman...@gmail.com wrote: Function MyFunction(someStringVar) as String    Return Foo Bar + someStringVar End Function And then in the SQL statement. UPDATE table SET column = MyFunction(Hello World) where column 100 This would call 

Re: [Qgis-developer] New Python console idea: Expanding the Python console to handle DSLs for plugins eg CADTools

2011-06-16 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Nathan Woodrow madman...@gmail.com wrote: I would appreciated any feedback anyone has.  I'm not a python expert so the code could be done better if done for real but at the moment it's just rough to get the idea out there. I like the idea of supplying

Re: [Qgis-developer] Embedding of layers and legend groups from other projects

2011-06-09 Thread Barry Rowlingson
 Anyone who wants to do a bit of work can export from by googlecode repo and stick it in their python plugins dir: I've just uploaded the zip of my plugin that imports layers from project files to the Qgis contrib repo. Please report bugs/enhancements via the issue tracker of the bsrplugins

Re: [Qgis-developer] Embedding of layers and legend groups from other projects

2011-06-08 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Nathan Woodrow madman...@gmail.com wrote: Barry, That sounds like a handy plugin.  I was going to writing something like that ages ago but now I don't have to :).  Pretty please release it. Anyone who wants to do a bit of work can export from by googlecode

Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: MXD

2011-05-27 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 2:06 AM, Noli Sicad nsi...@gmail.com wrote: Nice toolbox for ArcGIS to QGIS! Now, we can migrate all ArcGIS.mxd to QGIS.qgs. we? Only if you already have ArcGIS! :) Of course its handy to be able to ask colleagues with ArcGIS to convert an MXD someone has sent you,

Re: [Qgis-developer] search and catalog tool

2011-04-05 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it wrote: Il giorno mar, 05/04/2011 alle 09.23 +0200, Tim Sutton ha scritto: The pieces for such functionality are coming together and I think it wont be long before we have a robust catalogue tool for QGIS. Great news. Could

Re: [Qgis-developer] search and catalog tool

2011-04-05 Thread Barry Rowlingson
I don't see why a catalog index would use a particular standard, it would just enable searches in the metadata held by data sources according to the standards they may be using. So for a GDAL dataset, it would just call g.GetMetadata_List() (I think) and stash the returned text in its db.

Re: [Qgis-developer] Qgis access control question

2011-03-17 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 11:19 PM, Mayeul Kauffmann mayeul.kauffm...@free.fr wrote: Hi David, Barry is right and his answer is much better than what you could get with any client connecting to the data. You can define read-only access for some users and write access to other users both at the

Re: [Qgis-developer] Qgis access control question

2011-03-16 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 3:08 PM, David Silva Barrera dsi...@uci.cu wrote: Hi, Is there any development projection including functionalities for access control in Quantum? I mean, for example, role based access control or something. I’m aware the actual code doesn’t take care of this

Re: [Qgis-developer] Send us your tips!

2011-02-19 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Tim Sutton li...@linfiniti.com wrote: Hi Yesterday I added a 'tip of the day' type dialog that appears when QGIS starts. You have probably have seen a similar feature in other applications. Please tell me there's a 'don't show tips anymore' checkbox on the

Re: [Qgis-developer] QtTest missing

2011-01-18 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Patrice Vetsel ubu...@kagou.fr wrote:     from PyQt4.QtTest import *   File /Applications/QGIS.app/Contents/MacOS/../Resources/python/qgis/utils.py, line 279, in _import     mod = _builtin_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level) ImportError: No module

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please vote : kCube Developer Poll

2010-12-23 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 10:35 AM, mayeul.kauffm...@free.fr wrote: Each time there is a new vote: 1- the page managing the vote adds the result of the vote to a plain text file 2- launch an R script (by a system/bash call) The R script will do the following: 3- Read the results of the vote

Re: [Qgis-developer] Remove geoprocessing plugin?

2010-12-13 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Gary Sherman gsher...@geoapt.com wrote: I think we need to be careful about removing functionality that people are using. In particular I'm thinking of the copyright plugin. The copyright attribution should possibly be part of a project's metadata. The project

Re: [Qgis-developer] Memory data provider persistence

2010-12-06 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 2:04 AM, Chris Crook ccr...@linz.govt.nz wrote: So, for my requirement for memory provider persistance, the only real question is what is the right way to do it.  Although Martin had suggested a spatialite database, my leaning is towards a simple QDataStream.  A simple

Re: [Qgis-developer] Memory data provider persistence

2010-12-06 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Chris Crook ccr...@linz.govt.nz wrote: Hi Barry et al Good point about a plugin implementation .. I hadn't thought of that obvious option - definitely one to follow up on.  It might still need a few tweaks in terms of Qgis.  The QgisInterface has a

Re: [Qgis-developer] Python Plugin Repository - plugins app draft

2010-11-22 Thread Barry Rowlingson
description: save qgis projects as we go... author: Barry Rowlingson b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk qgisMinimumVersion: 1.0 and then __init__.py looks like this: import ConfigParser import os.path p = ConfigParser.ConfigParser() here = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__),config.ini) p.read(here

Re: [Qgis-developer] Qgis Api - select all features of a vector layer

2010-11-09 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 4:22 PM, kimaidou kimai...@gmail.com wrote: Hi again Still working on my python plugin... I need to simply select all the features of a chosen vector layer. In QgsVectorLayer api, there is no method selectAllFeatures() So I use this piece of code to achieve it

Re: [Qgis-developer] save project via python results in segfault

2010-10-26 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Martin Dobias wonder...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Richard Duivenvoorde rdmaili...@duif.net wrote: Martin Dobias wrote: Hi Richard On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Richard Duivenvoorde rdmaili...@duif.net wrote:

Re: [Qgis-developer] save project via python results in segfault

2010-10-25 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Barry Rowlingson b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk wrote: my autosave plugin has been crashing qgis since version 1.5 because it uses essentially the same python code. I was pretty busy at the time so I just disabled it and carried on. Haven't got back