Re: [QGIS-Developer] [Qgis-user] Bug with GeoPackage and Expressions?

2021-08-24 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi Calvin, This definitely sounds like the sort of thing you want to be doing in the data provider and not in QGIS! Maybe Fast Text Search would be of use. Problem is that I'm not sure if it's included in the GeoPackage spec or QGIS' SQLite install, but it's in the default pre-compiled

[QGIS-Developer] Fwd: Re: QGIS Docs: ReStructureText flavour?

2021-03-31 Thread Jonathan Moules
nt-Exupéry -Original Message- From: QGIS-Developer On Behalf Of Jonathan Moules Sent: 31 March 2021 14:21 To: QGIS Developer Mailing List Subject: [QGIS-Developer] QGIS Docs: ReStructureText flavour? Hi List, What flavour is the RST behind the QGIS docs? There are quite a few thin

[QGIS-Developer] QGIS Docs: ReStructureText flavour?

2021-03-31 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi List, What flavour is the RST behind the QGIS docs? There are quite a few things in here that are syntax erroring all the parsers I'm trying and aren't in the basic RST spec either (https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/user/rst/cheatsheet.txt). For example using ":ref:" for internal

Re: [QGIS-Developer] QGIS and privacy

2021-03-30 Thread Jonathan Moules
> I agree that exposing sensitive data would be problematic but sharing the username does not seem to be something too private. Your full name for example also appears in this mailing list or as part of your twitter account. So under which circumstances would it be problematic if your name

Re: [QGIS-Developer] SVG icons in QGIS

2020-07-27 Thread Jonathan Moules
re can be some centralized discussion. Regards, Richard Duivenvoorde On 7/27/20 1:42 PM, Jonathan Moules wrote: Hi List, The more I look at the current SVG icons, the more I'm thinking it really needs some TLC (Tender Loving Care). As far as I can tell, icons are categorised by the directory they're

[QGIS-Developer] SVG icons in QGIS

2020-07-27 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi List, The more I look at the current SVG icons, the more I'm thinking it really needs some TLC (Tender Loving Care). As far as I can tell, icons are categorised by the directory they're in, so if you want an icon to appear in two categories, you put the icon in there twice... and so

Re: [QGIS-Developer] GeoSeer ogc services data harvesting

2020-06-09 Thread Jonathan Moules
something to consider - perhaps sort out machines that have identical GetCapabilities responses and just the DNS name varies. I agree, the numbers probably wouldn't change significantly. Thanks and greetings, Andreas On 2020-06-09 13:14, Jonathan Moules wrote: Hi Andreas, Sure, happy to shar

Re: [QGIS-Developer] GeoSeer ogc services data harvesting

2020-06-09 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi Andreas, Sure, happy to share. There's a little on the About page: https://www.geoseer.net/about.php and then scattered around blog posts (the ones with the "GeoSeer" tag are probably best for that: https://www.geoseer.net/blog/?t=GeoSeer ), but put simply - We scrape a lot of different

Re: [QGIS-Developer] QGIS Server and the Grants programme

2020-06-09 Thread Jonathan Moules
rhaps QGIS server can run processing models. Greetings, Andreas On 2020-06-08 22:42, Jonathan Moules wrote: Hi List, Some of you may have seen my blog post on the OSGeo-Discuss list about which mapping servers are the most deployed. For those who haven't seen it, QGIS Server has about 60 public

[QGIS-Developer] QGIS Server and the Grants programme

2020-06-08 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi List, Some of you may have seen my blog post on the OSGeo-Discuss list about which mapping servers are the most deployed. For those who haven't seen it, QGIS Server has about 60 public deployments (1% of all of them), and it serves 11,924 datasets (0.5% of all public geospatial

Re: [QGIS-Developer] The curious case of GeoPackage on exFAT

2020-05-18 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi Bo, Looking at the WAL docs for SQLite (https://www.sqlite.org/wal.html) (what geopackage is built from) I see this: "The WAL file exists for as long as any database connection has the database open. Usually, the WAL file is deleted automatically when the last connection to the database

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Potential vulnerabilities

2020-02-02 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi Nadia, Just a random thought here, but I wonder if doing this exercise against QGIS Desktop would be more worthwhile from a security perspective? There are very few deployments of QGIS-Server but many many deployments of Desktop. For example, is it possible to compromise QGIS Desktop via

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Potential vulnerabilities

2020-02-02 Thread Jonathan Moules
ted :-) Regards, Jorge Gustavo On 01/02/20 21:25, Jonathan Moules wrote: I can't comment on the security aspect, but at the very least there's a bug in the WMS compliance. For the GetCapabilities URL it should be returning an XML Service Exception (because it has an invalid SERVICE value), not a H

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Potential vulnerabilities

2020-02-01 Thread Jonathan Moules
I can't comment on the security aspect, but at the very least there's a bug in the WMS compliance. For the GetCapabilities URL it should be returning an XML Service Exception (because it has an invalid SERVICE value), not a HTTP 500. I.e., the same request to a (random) GeoServer box shows

Re: [QGIS-Developer] [Qgis-user] Qgis crashes while loading WMTS layers

2020-01-26 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi Patrick, I can't comment on the core issue, but just a point for clarification - I thought Swap memory usage was something the operating system dealt with? Isn't it usually transparent to the application? A quick search indicates that what GIMP calls swap is really a bespoke folder for

Re: [QGIS-Developer] What to do with WMS Server Search

2020-01-21 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi List, Hopefully I can offer some insights into this as someone with some experience in spatial service discovery (I run GeoSeer: https:/www.geoseer.net - a search engine for spatial web services). - csw.geopole.org is what I believe is behind the search button. As it stands right now,

Re: [QGIS-Developer] [Qgis-community-team] QGIS documentation analitics?

2019-10-25 Thread Jonathan Moules
+1 on not using Google Analytics to spy on users. You can analyse the Apache logs using various tools pretty easily to discover things like how people got to the web-pages, and which pages are most commonly accessed, and even see where in the world folks are. I can run the logs through one of

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Copyright in a plugin?or idea?

2019-10-07 Thread Jonathan Moules
Ideas cannot be copyrighted and that's just fine - ideas are a dime a dozen; everyone has them all the time. But few people ever implement them. Which brings us to the crux of the issue - these were implemented so ideally should not have been duplicated? And not once but twice for a single

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Issue priorization for bugfixing: go flag your favorite issues

2019-08-28 Thread Jonathan Moules
>  * thumbs up is cheap, and does not necessarily reflect real interest. I disagree. Yes a thumb-up is a "cheap", but the only people who find the issue in the first place to thumb it are those it affects. For this sort of thing Cheap is a virtue not a problem (I very much doubt there are any

Re: [QGIS-Developer] WMTS problem on QGIS 3.4 server?

2019-08-28 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi Luca, The first one sounds like a bug and I''d suggest reporting it to the qgis bug tracker. For clarity: Are we talking about the layer Name or the layer Title? The Name is a unique ID for a layer; the vast majority of WxS servers don't use spaces in their layer names, instead they use

Re: [QGIS-Developer] SSL Performance Overhead

2019-06-19 Thread Jonathan Moules
This has been covered a few times on StackOverflow. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/548029/how-much-overhead-does-ssl-impose https://stackoverflow.com/questions/149274/http-vs-https-performance Basically, the expensive part is creating the connection (handshaking). After that, when using

Re: [QGIS-Developer] QGIS server issue: bounding box issues

2019-05-13 Thread Jonathan Moules
if WMS clients should use bounding boxes at all, they seem to be really, really unreliable. Or they should only use the top level bounding box of the whole service. Many open questions ... Andreas On 2019-05-13 02:27, Jonathan Moules wrote: Hi list, Unless GeoServer has changed it of late, the wa

Re: [QGIS-Developer] QGIS server issue: bounding box issues

2019-05-12 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi list, Unless GeoServer has changed it of late, the way they do BBOX definition is: * Layer BBOXes are defined at layer creation time. * Layer BBOXes are entered manually, though there is a button to automatically calculate it from the data extent which automatically fills in the manual

[QGIS-Developer] Consistent Ordering (and terms) for buttons in dialogs

2019-05-12 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi List, There seems to be some inconsistent ordering and usage of the buttons on dialogs. Does QGIS have developer guidelines on this? Largely it's fairly consistent but sometimes button orders seem incongruous. Also the use of "Cancel" versus "Close". For example, Raster > "Raster

Re: [QGIS-Developer] QGIS-Server: filter by categories in an OGC compatible way

2019-04-09 Thread Jonathan Moules
GIS Server also allows POST requests, but I may be wrong. Andreas Am 09.04.19 um 19:09 schrieb Jonathan Moules: Hi Andreas, Another problem you may hit - the link below is hitting it being ~2300 chars - URL's (and thus GET requests) cannot reliably be more than about 2000 characters long. At

Re: [QGIS-Developer] PyQGIS WMS tiles don't load on Windows

2019-04-09 Thread Jonathan Moules
IS? I appreciate the help, Erik On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 6:25 PM Jonathan Moules wrote: Hi Erik, I think maybe there's a nomenclature problem here. I wasn't aware that any Google services were available via WMS. WMS is a specific specification, and if you're googling around using that term you're

Re: [QGIS-Developer] QGIS-Server: filter by categories in an OGC compatible way

2019-04-09 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi Andreas, Another problem you may hit - the link below is hitting it being ~2300 chars - URL's (and thus GET requests) cannot reliably be more than about 2000 characters long. At that point you need to shift over to POST requests (and I think GetMap is GET only...).

Re: [QGIS-Developer] PyQGIS WMS tiles don't load on Windows

2019-04-09 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi Erik, I think maybe there's a nomenclature problem here. I wasn't aware that any Google services were available via WMS. WMS is a specific specification, and if you're googling around using that term you're going to find results that aren't pertinent to what you actually want to do

Re: [QGIS-Developer] How to update features with WFS-T & QGIS-Server 3.4?

2019-03-27 Thread Jonathan Moules
A quick google found this: https://github.com/opengisch/QField/issues/300 Don't know if it helps. Cheers, Jonathan On 2019-03-25 14:31, Piotr Bednarek wrote: Hi I have a problem with WFS-T. I'm creating map using OpenLayers 5.3, Qgis-server 3.4 and postgis 9.6-2.4. The task is to get layer

Re: [QGIS-Developer] [Qgis-psc] Request for Change of UserAgent

2019-02-24 Thread Jonathan Moules
t; And I just downloaded gvSIG and uDig: "uDig 2.0.0. (http://udig.refractions.net) Java/1.8.0_111" "Mozilla/5.0 (gvSIG) like Gecko" So it looks like only gvSIG does the Mozilla thing. On 2019-02-24 23:25, Nyall Dawson wrote: On Mon, 25 Feb 2019 at 09:05, Jonathan Moules

Re: [QGIS-Developer] [Qgis-psc] Request for Change of UserAgent

2019-02-23 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi Richard, I don't think without more information it's clear precisely what QGIS should change to help them? Indeed, personally I'm still not sure what the current problem is for them. I get that they have some over-users of their service and need to curtail this (a very tricky problem),

Re: [QGIS-Developer] [Qgis-psc] Request for Change of UserAgent

2019-02-23 Thread Jonathan Moules
It seems to me there are a few different aspects to this. - The convention is to stick "Mozilla 5" into user-agents for browsers because every other browser uses it. At this point they all pretend to be each other -

Re: [QGIS-Developer] QGIS WCS is requesting FULL dataset?

2018-10-20 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi Lists, I'm cross posting this to GeoServer-Users over from QGIS-Dev as the current QGIS code seems to be trying to work around a GeoServer quirk based on Nyall's code-comment snippet. Is there something different QGIS can do to work around the stated issue in a better way given I guess

Re: [QGIS-Developer] QGIS WCS is requesting FULL dataset?

2018-10-13 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi Richard, I don't know about the QGIS side, but from the server side I'd agree with your assessment. The WCS 1.0 spec says that the server will use the interpolation method specified in the getcapabilities (or if none is defined (as here), then assume Nearest Neighbour) for alternative

Re: [QGIS-Developer] What to do about WFS test failures?

2018-09-04 Thread Jonathan Moules
I'd suggest based on Tom's post that the work should include some sort of reliable way of testing the WFS client (and of course full test coverage) - I don't know if GeoServer is Docker-happy these days, but the default install in a VM should be sufficient for the task (it comes with test

Re: [QGIS-Developer] How long before closing an issue on "lack of feedback"?

2018-08-14 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi Nyall, Looking at this from another angle (and being aware I know nothing of the QGIS code-base) - to me at least that would suggest that maybe it's worth improving the crash dumps so that they're better able to be used as a stand-alone debugging thing that doesn't require user

Re: [Qgis-developer] About QGIS-*.DMP files in Temp folder on Windows

2016-11-09 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi, Have you reported it to the bug tracker - https://hub.qgis.org/issues - That's the best way to report this sort of behaviour. While I can see why a dmp file would be useful, no program should be leaving GB of dump files behind. Maybe it should clean up when there are more than x number?

Re: [Qgis-developer] Legal advice for a client wanting to use QGIS API

2016-08-04 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi Tim, You may be better off asking the OSI - https://opensource.org/ - I'd guess this is the sort of thing they can help with, or at least point you in the right direction. Cheers, Jonathan On Thu, 04 Aug 2016 10:15:16 +0100 Tim Suttont...@kartoza.com wrote Hi Apologies if this

Re: [Qgis-developer] Release naming and path problems

2016-07-18 Thread Jonathan Moules
The second version of the installer now uses the version number in the path. I'd suggest paths using version numbers is a better idea anyway and should be the default. As well as avoiding these sorts of problems, they're also more understandable to users - is "Essen" newer of older than

Re: [Qgis-developer] [Qgis-user] Better tags for plugins

2015-02-23 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi Paulo, Surely this can be enforced by having requirements for acceptance on the official plugin repository. If a plugin doesn't fulfil all the requirements, it doesn't get included. Possible requirements (to give an idea): - Brief description of plugin, - Detailed explanation of plugin. -

[Qgis-developer] Proposed questions for QGIS Certification questionnaire

2015-02-17 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi Tim (and all), Per the IRC meeting, I've come up with a possible questionnaire that we can spam. Currently it's all text, but it can be converted easily enough. What platform should we stick it on for the question/answers? I can do a free surveymonkey unless someone has something better to

Re: [Qgis-developer] Proposed questions for QGIS Certification questionnaire

2015-02-17 Thread Jonathan Moules
exactly which ones to use. Cheers, Jonathan From: Trevor Wiens [mailto:tsw@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 6:09 PM To: Jonathan Moules Cc: Tim Sutton; QGIS Developer Mailing List Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] Proposed questions for QGIS Certification questionnaire Jonathan

Re: [Qgis-developer] [Qgis-psc] QGIS Certification IRC meeting, Thrus 12 Feb, 2015

2015-02-13 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi Trevor, We never really discussed that during the meeting, though it’s a good question. The meeting more went in an “assigning tasks” kind of direction, touching a few questions here and there. I think one of the potential tasks was going to be about covering that sort of question. It’s also

Re: [Qgis-developer] [Qgis-psc] QGIS Certification IRC meeting, Thrus 12 Feb, 2015

2015-02-12 Thread Jonathan Moules
You can get to it via: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#qgis-certification -Original Message- From: qgis-developer-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:qgis-developer-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Robert Szczepanek Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 2:08 PM To: Tim Sutton;

Re: [Qgis-developer] Layer properties dialogue: OK/Cancel not active anymore?

2015-01-08 Thread Jonathan Moules
I wonder, might it be worth adding a test for it as well? Now that QGIS has unit tests, the more the merrier? -Original Message- From: qgis-developer-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:qgis-developer-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Richard Duivenvoorde Sent: Wednesday, January 07,

Re: [Qgis-developer] Huge TIFF files - problem

2014-12-09 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi Lene, What’s the GDALINFO for the 122GB image? That will confirm (or debunk) some of the theories posted here as to the cause. Figured it’s worth asking just in case there’s another cause too. Cheers, Jonathan From: qgis-developer-boun...@lists.osgeo.org

[Qgis-developer] 2.6.1 - fix for crash release?

2014-11-17 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi, I was wondering if there's been any progress with creating a 2.6.1 release to fix the crash-and-data-destroying bug (http://hub.qgis.org/issues/11592)? There have been a couple threads requesting it (http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2014-November/035516.html -

Re: [Qgis-developer] QGIS 2.6.0 georeferencer fails in windows

2014-11-14 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi Roy, I just did a quick one and it worked; Windows using the stand alone installed version, 64bit I think. Which transformation are you using? I tested polynomial 1. That said, if it's repeatable, it's probably worth reporting as a bug anyway; including the sample data and detailed info.

Re: [Qgis-developer] 2.6.1 Windows patch?

2014-11-12 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi Bernhard, I believe it's this conversation: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2014-November/035492.html - and this ticket: http://hub.qgis.org/issues/11592 --- I think this is a good test of the maturity of the QGIS project; a release has been made which has a

Re: [Qgis-developer] FW: Support | Custom install for XenApp | Removing menu options

2014-11-11 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi Steven, Just a notion, and this is more of a “last ditch attempt” than anything else, but I’m reasonably sure that the pyramids are created using GDAL’s gdaladdo. So one possible option is to remove/rename gdaladdo.exe. In theory this would disable the functionality. I can’t test it myself

Re: [Qgis-developer] Stability (2.8 LTS) vs development (3.0), a proposed way forward

2014-11-10 Thread Jonathan Moules
A couple of thoughts from a non-dev looking inwards: Sorry I do not agree here: we had many cases of fixes breaking other stuff Would not something like Unit Tests help ameliorate that? That's what they're designed for isn't it? I realise the state of QGIS' unit test infrastructure isn't

Re: [Qgis-developer] Behaviour when create new features

2014-11-10 Thread Jonathan Moules
Personally I’d think there are two bugs here, at least from a user-interface perspective, even if they’re not from a technical one: a) Edits showing when editing was disabled (I’ve seen this one myself). b)No warning that the edited features hadn’t been “finished” when saving and/or

Re: [Qgis-developer] Save selection as

2014-11-10 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi, Irrespective of which is the way to do it (I lean toward checking it when there's a selection), I'd suggest that the behaviour should be consistent. So either this default be changed, or the field calculator one be, otherwise you end up with confused users. Cheers, Jonathan -Original

Re: [Qgis-developer] issues in QGIS 2.6 when saving/working with projects saved in previous QGIS releases

2014-11-10 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi, Is there an ETA on this? We're thinking of moving up to 2.6, but I can see this hitting us if we do. Thanks, Jonathan -Original Message- From: qgis-developer-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:qgis-developer-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Paolo Cavallini Sent: Saturday, November

Re: [Qgis-developer] 2.2 - 2.6 oracle table SRID not identified

2014-11-06 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi Sylvain, I’m not seeing this. For me at least, using 2.2, 2.4, and 2.6, all exhibit the same behaviour with showing SRID’s for layers that have geometry. All are correctly showing the SRID as 8607 (Oracle’s version of WGS84). Maybe it’s your connection options? Cheers, Jonathan From:

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-13 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi Larry, At the risk of being a dissenting voice, is this really the message QGIS wants to spread? That sponsorship is king? As an Open Source GIS project, I would hope that its prowess lay in producing exceptional GI software rather than finding sponsorship. The later is a means to an end.

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-13 Thread Jonathan Moules
Every single log line has the committer's GitHub name so it isn't anonymous. I know, but that also includes the paid-for devs; my point was that if QGIS wishes to highlight those paying for work with money, then highlighting those paying for work with time seems fair too. Other than that, I'm

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-10 Thread Jonathan Moules
Chiming in from the perspective of someone who was working for an occasional feature “sponsor” until recently (mostly GeoServer, but also one or two QGIS), we didn’t do it with the intent of getting our name in anything (be it commit log, appendix, or even h1 on the project front-page). We did

Re: [Qgis-developer] [Qgis-user] Centroid of polygon

2014-08-05 Thread Jonathan Moules
? Andreas Am 04.08.2014 17:22, schrieb Goyo: This works in master: xmin(centroid($geometry)) ymin(centroid($geometry)) Goyo 2014-08-04 18:28 GMT+02:00 Jonathan Moules jonathanmou...@warwickshire.gov.uk: Hi list, Quick question, how do you use the Field Calculator to get

Re: [Qgis-developer] [Qgis-user] Stress about release plans

2014-07-22 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi Otto, You make some excellent points. Just to follow on one of them: But usually customers and developers don't think about also spending an additional little amount to document the feature in the QGIS docs and training material. I think that's a QGIS problem. I know when I get quotes for

Re: [Qgis-developer] [Qgis-user] Stress about release plans

2014-07-22 Thread Jonathan Moules
Except that self-evidently the current solution doesn't work well. Of the three projects I listed, QGIS has by far the worst documentation; as Otto noted, they've not even started updating for 2.4 yet. Just looking now, not a single one of the QGIS Geoalgorithms that I've ever looked at (which

Re: [Qgis-developer] Stress about release plans

2014-07-22 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi Paolo, But is it working? I believe the point of an LTS is that each version is more stable than the last and that there are no new features which in turn means no new bugs The question is simple: maintaining a stable branch costs (developr time|money). If someone will put the

[Qgis-developer] Fwd: [Qgis-user] Simplified interface - toolbox

2014-07-21 Thread Jonathan Moules
/algclasssification.txt Thanks for your help 2014-07-09 14:03 GMT+02:00 Jonathan Moules jonathanmou...@warwickshire.gov.uk: Ok, I've reported it to the tracker: https://hub.qgis.org/issues/10854 Seems like quite a bad bug from a user-interface perspective. Thanks, Jonathan On 9 July

Re: [Qgis-developer] Navigation toolbar

2014-07-02 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi Andreas, On 2 July 2014 08:40, Andreas Neumann a.neum...@carto.net wrote: Hi, In addition to the discussion around the selection tool I would like to discuss a reduction of buttons in the navigation toolbar. I think it eats way too much screen-space by default. I'd like to suggest the

Re: [Qgis-developer] Using PostGIS on a slow connection

2014-02-26 Thread Jonathan Moules
It sounds like the PostGIS connection provider could use some optimisations. The Oracle provider had/has a few which are being resolved (thanks Jurgen!), but it does first require identifying what queries are being run during what actions. If you have access, watch what queries are running on

Re: [Qgis-developer] DD form gone?

2014-02-26 Thread Jonathan Moules
You're right, sorry for the noise. The fact that the dropdown is empty induced me in error: perhaps better to fill it with the default value? +1 Looks like it should be pre-populated with autogenerate (or at least, selecting that option does nothing so I guess it's already selected). --

[Qgis-developer] QGIS UX list not on website

2014-02-26 Thread Jonathan Moules
I've seen a couple of references to a qgis-ux list, however it's not linked to on maillists list of the website: http://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/mailinglists.html#qgis-mailinglists Might be worth adding. (I guess it's this one - http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-ux ) Cheers,

Re: [Qgis-developer] QGIS UX list not on website

2014-02-26 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi Richard, Thanks. I remembered there's a special issue tracker for the website but couldn't remember where it was so went with this instead. Regards, Jonathan On 26 February 2014 15:09, Richard Duivenvoorde rdmaili...@duif.net wrote: On 26-02-14 15:07, Jonathan Moules wrote: I've seen

[Qgis-developer] QGIS weekly builds not built in a while

2014-02-25 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi List, Just an observation but the weekly builds - http://qgis.org/downloads/weekly/ - don't seem to have built for the last couple of weeks. Are they still meant to be getting built or has something gone wrong? They're a good way around the myriad issues I seem to perpetually have with the

Re: [Qgis-developer] Announcing the release of QGIS 2.2

2014-02-24 Thread Jonathan Moules
Excellent work, thanks guys. Just a thought, but as part of the release process (I'm guessing there's a big list of things to do somewhere) I'd suggest updating the Affected Version on redmine to whatever the newest version is. There's no 2.2.0 on there currently. Cheers, Jonathan On 22

Re: [Qgis-developer] Post-release period of portable commits only?

2014-02-24 Thread Jonathan Moules
Why not? We're talking about a feature freezed period!? The nightly build is a snapshot what what will get release. Where do you see a difference? I think it's a perception thing. Nightly build in my mind always means bleeding edge may or may not work, use at own risk. I'm aware that

Re: [Qgis-developer] Post-release period of portable commits only?

2014-02-24 Thread Jonathan Moules
the users that QGIS version 2.X is in feature freeze and therefore is sufficiently stable to be tested by end users? This may increase the number of testers. As an end user that uses QGIS for production, this is the only time I work with QGIS Master. On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Jonathan

Re: [Qgis-developer] Metadata fields in QGIS

2014-02-18 Thread Jonathan Moules
I posted this to the user list a couple of weeks ago but no interest. Maybe the dev list has some thoughts? Hi List, I'm wondering if anyone uses the metadata fields for data in QGIS (Layer Properties - Metadata)? I've been told that this is supposed to be filled in manually. I ask because

Re: [Qgis-developer] Oracle layers - improving the speed

2014-02-10 Thread Jonathan Moules
from pre-accessed tables?) Cheers, Jonathan On 8 February 2014 17:45, Jürgen E. j...@norbit.de wrote: Hi Jonathan, On Tue, 04. Feb 2014 at 17:54:10 +, Jonathan Moules wrote: The native Oracle provider has been in QGIS for quite a while (a year?) and is generally quite good

Re: [Qgis-developer] Oracle layers - improving the speed

2014-02-10 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hey Jürgen, There's always an extent, but that not necessarily reflect an actual bbox, but just sets the available bounds, which are often set much bigger than the actual data. But the bounding box is determined after insertion of the layer anyway. Fair point, but for us it's

Re: [Qgis-developer] some flaw in RDP algorithm?

2014-02-05 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi, QGIS already has access to tons of generalisation options via the grass v.generalise tool http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/v.generalize.html Split into four categeories - Generalisation, Smoothing, Displacement, Network Generalisation. Is there a reason those can't be used? I wonder

Re: [Qgis-developer] some flaw in RDP algorithm?

2014-02-05 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi Giuliano, you're probably right, but I have never advised to develop a new simplification algorithm :-) I am a mathematical as a hobby, I have only met a little problem with the RDP algorithm and I reported it, and I had fun writing an algorithm for fun but no idea of proposing

[Qgis-developer] Oracle layers - improving the speed

2014-02-04 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi List, The native Oracle provider has been in QGIS for quite a while (a year?) and is generally quite good. However there are still two fundamental issues that we have with it, both as a result of the fact that Oracle doesn't store accurate spatial metadata: a) Whenever I Connect to the Oracle

Re: [Qgis-developer] Consistency in adding layers (especially OGC)

2014-01-29 Thread Jonathan Moules
the ConnectionString that each provider know to open. I attach a short video to show the idea (~2.5 mb). http://www.filedropper.com/GenericCadgisLoadingDialog Best Regards Alvaro -- *De:* Jonathan Moules jonathanmou...@warwickshire.gov.uk *Para:* Nathan Woodrow madman

[Qgis-developer] Consistency in adding layers (especially OGC)

2014-01-28 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi List, This may be too late for 2.2 (some are features), but something that's bugging me no end is the complete lack of consistency between all the dialogs for the OGC services. Below I've created a somewhat exhaustive list of differences-that-shouldn't-be between the way they behave - mostly

Re: [Qgis-developer] Consistency in adding layers (especially OGC)

2014-01-28 Thread Jonathan Moules
. - Nathan On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 8:03 PM, Jonathan Moules jonathanmou...@warwickshire.gov.uk wrote: Hi List, This may be too late for 2.2 (some are features), but something that's bugging me no end is the complete lack of consistency between all the dialogs for the OGC services. Below I've

Re: [Qgis-developer] Plugins approval

2014-01-07 Thread Jonathan Moules
On 7 January 2014 08:04, Matthias Kuhn matthias.k...@gmx.ch wrote: Is there a real problem we are trying to solve with this? Users (even technical ones) have problems finding where plugins have actually installed stuff - I've seen it first hand. By using a logical and consistent approach, that

Re: [Qgis-developer] Easy Issues for QGIS dev

2014-01-07 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi, I've gone through a small set of my bug reports - these ones appear like they may be easy. However (a) I'm not a QGIS dev so don't know; (b) I don't have tagging permissions anyway. http://hub.qgis.org/issues/8899 http://hub.qgis.org/issues/8900 http://hub.qgis.org/issues/9196

Re: [Qgis-developer] Plugins approval

2014-01-07 Thread Jonathan Moules
I remember, I discussed another key website with Borys, which would be shown in a frame in the plugin description page. This could be used to show even pictures in a description. Or we could just embed the URL listed in homepage. If I'm understanding correctly, you're proposing that the

Re: [Qgis-developer] How to deal with plugins which are not useful for users (e.g. Hello world)

2013-12-30 Thread Jonathan Moules
+1 to Anita's post. The vast majority of GIS users aren't programmers in my experience (which is my masters and my current employment with 100+ people who use GIS in some form). Simpler is almost always better. It may not seem that way from mailing lists, but these are a self-selecting group of

Re: [Qgis-developer] QGIS Multi-threaded Rendering

2013-12-12 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi Martin, Just a minor thing, probably an accidental omission. Your list of data-providers that don't work doen't include the Oracle native one but I suspect probably should. From a non-dev's perspective it looks quite promising. :-) Cheers, Jonathan On 12 December 2013 12:14, Martin Dobias

Re: [Qgis-developer] QGIS Multi-threaded Rendering

2013-12-12 Thread Jonathan Moules
I believe GeoServer (well, GeoWebCache) uses metatiling for that purpose within its WMTS/TMS. My understanding is that rather than rendering a single 256*256 pixel tile like it was asked to, it renders a grid of 4*4 (adjustable; but that's the default) of those tiles (so 1024*1024 pixels) and then

Re: [Qgis-developer] Context help is evil and old

2013-11-27 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi Richard, For reference, I opened a ticket on this a couple of months ago - http://hub.qgis.org/issues/8699 - and had similar findings to yourself Cheers, Jonathan On 27 November 2013 08:31, Richard Duivenvoorde rdmaili...@duif.net wrote: Hi, while the idea of context help buttons in

[Qgis-developer] QGIS website download links

2013-11-06 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi folks, Couple of thoughts on the website: 1) - There doesn't seem to be a link to the weeklies, or at least not one I can find on http://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/alldownloads.html 2) That same page has a link under QGIS testing which 404's -

Re: [Qgis-developer] QGIS 2.0 point release?

2013-11-01 Thread Jonathan Moules
It's fine for us that control the hardware we run stuff on but a lot of people don't and have to go though a major process to get an update. To that end, would it be possible to create an update that's more like a patch of the sort that Windows, ArcGIS, most-games use, rather than (or maybe

Re: [Qgis-developer] QGIS 2.0 point release?

2013-10-30 Thread Jonathan Moules
+1 I was going to ask if there were plans for something like this, but it's great to see someone taking the initiative on it! On 29 October 2013 22:21, Nyall Dawson nyall.daw...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, I'm just scoping things out -- if I was to go through all the commits which have hit

Re: [Qgis-developer] QGIS context help

2013-10-23 Thread Jonathan Moules
On the issue of which format to use, pandoc can translate between most document formats it seems, including the ones specified by Alexander as being used by QGIS. Project is here: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ The help should definitely be in a single format; ideally something that is easily

Re: [Qgis-developer] problems with tiff

2013-10-17 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi Paolo, Looking at a Paletted GeoTiff on Windows 2.0.1, x64 and it works fine, including all of the layer properties tabs. Might it be a GDAL thing? Jonathan On 17 October 2013 08:44, Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all.

Re: [Qgis-developer] Installing Processing problems

2013-10-17 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi Paolo, According to this just-closed ticket, I think (some of?) this stuff has been resolved in future standalone builds: http://hub.qgis.org/issues/8627#change-45754 Jonathan On 17 October 2013 17:22, Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash:

Re: [Qgis-developer] QGIS 2 64bits, is it stable ?

2013-10-04 Thread Jonathan Moules
maintainance costs, for which it is always difficult to find funding. We need more unit test, more code quality dashboards and much stricter rules relative to what code has to be accepted into master. I think this is a matter of balance: a large part of QGIS success is due to the huge

Re: [Qgis-developer] QGIS 2 64bits, is it stable ?

2013-10-04 Thread Jonathan Moules
The stability of the current release is heavily influenced by increasing the major version number. What I mean with this is, that because for the next release only the minor number will increase, I expect it to be to be more stable and not less. Regardless of testing. Agreed, the new

Re: [Qgis-developer] QGIS 2 64bits, is it stable ?

2013-10-04 Thread Jonathan Moules
It sounds good, but it's a false dichotomy - why can't you have both? because of limited resources. if all the 1.000.000+ users of QGIS would invest 1 euro per year in it, this would be quite feasible. All the best. True, but that's back to my comment previously about what other projects

Re: [Qgis-developer] QGIS 2 64bits, is it stable ?

2013-10-03 Thread Jonathan Moules
Assuming it's not already done, I'd suggest that requiring Unit Tests for all new features should be mandatory for a Pull Request/patch to be accepted into QGIS. In the long term that would hopefully help alleviate the significant number of regressions that we're seeing in 2.0. Jonathan On 3

Re: [Qgis-developer] Oracle connection dialog broken in 64 bit 2.0.1-2 ?

2013-10-03 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi Régis, Windows x64 2.0.1-2 install here - the Oracle dialog works fine. I didn't use the OSGEO installer but instead used the standalone one. Worth trying that? Cheers, Jonathan On 2 October 2013 08:47, Régis Haubourg regis.haubo...@eau-adour-garonne.fr wrote: Hi, Oracle connection

Re: [Qgis-developer] [Qgis-user] QGIS 2.0 in Portable App

2013-10-03 Thread Jonathan Moules
This is probably better placed on the developer list (cc'd). However I believe I read a message on there suggesting it was being ported over. Jonathan On 3 October 2013 04:01, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone tried using QGIS 2.0 in USB Portable App [0]? There are

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