Re: [Qgis-developer] Bye bye SPIT?

2012-05-02 Thread mayeul . kauffmann
Hi, About removing SPIT: Yesterday I imported a large shapefile (which was not even loaded in QGIS) into postgis using the GUI from SPIT; I can't find a way to do so with the DB manager. Mayeul - Mail original - De: Tim Sutton li...@linfiniti.com À: Alexander Bruy

Re: [Qgis-developer] Bye bye SPIT?

2012-05-02 Thread mayeul . kauffmann
oh, yes, you're right - it's PostGIS Manager that requires shp2pgsql, not SPIT. My mistake. Sure, duplication of tools is bad. But removing SPIT would mean removing the *only* (correct?) QGIS GUI tool to load shapefiles into postgis without external dependencies. Do we want to get read of this

Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: Working on Symbology Improvement for the GSOC

2012-04-02 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Hi, Using QGIS 1.9 I've rendered one third of the Alps with 15 different zoom levels as a hobby project (and serve the world at work on QGIS server with a simpler symbology). See links and what I've learned from this below. Here would be my wish-list should we want to compete with open renderers

Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: OpenLayers plugin blocks QGIS

2012-03-17 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Hi, Same problem on Ubuntu 11.10 both with QGIS 1.7.4 (from packages) and 1.9 (compiled by myself). Plugin version: 0.7.1 Same bug even if de-activating all other plugins. Logs when running from command line: Debug: OpenlayersLayer draw Debug: extent:

Re: [Qgis-developer] Removing old labelling / polygons / WMS tiles

2012-03-10 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
am not a tiling expert - so I may be wrong. Andreas On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 23:22:22 +0100, Mayeul Kauffmann wrote: I also experienced problems with new labelling for polygons. Even when you set new labelling to try only one position, and stay on centroid, labels still move when you pan

Re: [Qgis-developer] Removing old labelling / polygons (in 1.9)

2012-03-08 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
I also experienced problems with new labelling for polygons. Even when you set new labelling to try only one position, and stay on centroid, labels still move when you pan. They kind of stay on the centroid of the *visible* part of the area. It is annoying when generating tiles with qgis server:

Re: [Qgis-developer] Criticism of lack of symbols in QGIS

2012-02-04 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Hi, This discussion came up already, but just in case this was forgotten: I generated a set of about 1000 svg color icons for QGIS, based on OSM icons. Available here as public domain: http://www.mediafire.com/?jiooxkbmyzgr0 Sample use visible in this video:

Re: [Qgis-developer] Rule-based renderer updates

2012-01-27 Thread mayeul . kauffmann
Hi Martin, I've made some tests playing with a few hundred styles, comparing QGIS 1.7.1 and 1.9.0. Overall, I find your commit very good, thanks a lot! Still there are a few regressions IMHO. Discussion below. Rules now form a hierarchical structure: any rule can contain further child rules.

Re: [Qgis-developer] rm EPSG:900913?

2012-01-18 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Hi, Hi would vote to keep it for a while, but I dislike it (it's not an official epsg code, and even the name is incorrect Google Mercator is not a Mercator projection). As a compromise, could we add (deprecated) or even (deprecated, cf. 3857) ? It would also be hidden when you check hide

[Qgis-developer] User plugins bug reports server unavailable?

2012-01-06 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Hi, I just tried to report a few bugs on a user plugin but could not: Clicking new issue goes to: http://hub.qgis.org/projects/qgis-user-plugins/issues/new which says: No tracker is associated to this project. Please check the Project settings. while:

Re: [Qgis-developer] Web Client - New Features

2012-01-06 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Hi Larry, I'm new to the list Welcome then and thanks for contributing! That looks great, I'll use this and know others that will! It would be good to have some popular OpenLayers layers included by default, with just the need to uncomment or change one or 2 lines of javascript (for instance,

Re: [Qgis-developer] User plugins bug reports server unavailable?

2012-01-06 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
will always trigger an error message. Alternatively, the link could go to a page saying that you have to go to a plugin sub-project first). Cheers, Mayeul Le vendredi 06 janvier 2012 à 19:54 +0100, Richard Duivenvoorde a écrit : On 2012-01-06 15:27, Mayeul Kauffmann wrote: Hi, I just tried to report

Re: [Qgis-developer] Benchmarking / optimization

2011-12-07 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Le lundi 28 novembre 2011 à 19:49 +0100, Radim Blazek a écrit : My next plans are: 1) add more projects (more data types and rendering modes) to my benchmark suite Hi, You may try to use http://sourceforge.net/projects/osm2postgresql/ to test with huge OSM datasets. I'm doing this daily on

Re: [Qgis-developer] manual/automatic screenshots

2011-11-16 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Hi, +1. See older thread: De: Mayeul Kauffmann mayeul.kauffm...@free.fr À: Mars Sjoden aurorageomat...@gmail.com Cc: Andrew Chapman andrew.chap...@donkagen.co.uk, qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org Sujet: Re: [Qgis-developer] Testing and releases Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 22:47:37 +0200

Re: [Qgis-developer] qgis 1.7 install error

2011-10-04 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
I'm not an install guru, but knowing what is your architecture might help. Myself I'm using non standard install procedure that I described here: http://www.qgis.org/wiki/Talk:Building_QGIS_from_Source It might help. Mayeul Le samedi 01 octobre 2011 à 18:31 +, Jules Kouadio a écrit :

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

2011-09-15 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
@Niccolò: good point. Howevere one could write a non GPL piece of code (the minimum to keep the data undisclosable) and link qgis to it. Is it forbidden by GPL license? I don't think... I think it is. I also believe it might be forbidden by the GPL. I think there might be a way to

Re: [Qgis-developer] DB Manager release

2011-09-15 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Great! What's the minimal QGIS version required? (I'm stuck with 1.7 until symbol levels with rule-based renderer find their way into the trunk). Mayeul Le jeudi 15 septembre 2011 à 14:18 +0200, Paolo Cavallini a écrit : Hi all. Thanks to the hard work of Giuseppe Sucameli, the supervision of

[Qgis-developer] Postgis Live historisation

2011-09-02 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Hi, I am trying to use Postgis Live historisation from QGIS, following: http://www.kappasys.ch/pgtools/pghistory/#toc8 I ran into several problems. Main one is: After initial import of dataset, the first modification to each single feature does not add the archive date to

Re: [Qgis-developer] [WEBCLIENT]Specific mailinglist? (was: Mailinglist for QGIS Web-Client)

2011-08-27 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Le vendredi 26 août 2011 à 23:26 +0200, Tim Sutton a écrit : But seriously, ...tagging subjects like [WEBCLIENT] Help my blah blah blah... is what he had in mind I thinkthough that requires a level of inolvement in list politics that most of our subscribers may not possess I am afraid

Re: [Qgis-developer] QgsExpression: replacement for QgsSearchString

2011-08-27 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
PostgreSQL is very strict about type conversions, Sqlite is not strict at all and MySQL is somewhere in the middle. I have ended up with these conversion rules: - implicit conversions to desired types - string-number conversions with invalid input return error - arithmetic operators

Re: [Qgis-developer] Mailinglist for QGIS Web-Client

2011-08-26 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
, 2011 8:51 PM, Mayeul Kauffmann mayeul.kauffm...@free.fr wrote: Hi, Myself I would register right away to such a list! However I believe it might be good to have a common list for QGIS Web server and QGIS webclient. (+) QGIS Web server implements non-standard wms capabilities (like

Re: [Qgis-developer] Mailinglist for QGIS Web-Client

2011-08-25 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Hi, Myself I would register right away to such a list! However I believe it might be good to have a common list for QGIS Web server and QGIS webclient. (+) QGIS Web server implements non-standard wms capabilities (like the print functionality) and QGIS webclient makes use of them (-) You will

Re: [Qgis-developer] symbol levels in rule-based rendering

2011-08-19 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Hi, Thanks for raising this! After months of use of symbol levels in rule-based rendering (SLinRBR), I found the implementation robust. I have several colleagues using regularly my OSM styles. Yesterday I deployed it on an intranet with the webclient, see:

Re: [Qgis-developer] Rethinking the testing ... (test-driven development)

2011-07-08 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Hi Just a thought on branch THEN work THEN write tests. It could be instead: branch THEN write tests THEN work. Agile programming encourages test-driven development: you write the tests first, then you code new functionalities. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_driven_development While this

[Qgis-developer] pgversion and QGIS Plugin / emaj (history versioning)

2011-07-06 Thread mayeul . kauffmann
Hi, Followup to recent discussion on pgversion plugin: For versioning (in the sense of history), there is emaj for postgresql: http://pgfoundry.org/projects/emaj/ The manual is well written. Version 0.9 works very well even with postgis data and provides full versioning and rollback (including

Re: [Qgis-developer] New Plugin VectorStudio

2011-07-06 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Hi, I installed the plugin I tried to play with it but could not do anything. Maybe you could describe what it does. If you know how to make a screencast, putting this on, e.g., youtube, is probably the most efficent way. Mayeul Le mercredi 06 juillet 2011 à 14:14 -0300, Pablo Carreira a écrit :

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

2011-06-29 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Hi, One of the main activity of ESA is earth observation (not Mars observation), so I believe any project focusing on satelite data (imagery or radar) could be sponsored. Mayeul Le mercredi 29 juin 2011 à 12:12 +0100, Barry Rowlingson a écrit : Hi All, the European Space Agency has

Re: [Qgis-developer] qgis-mapserver: user authentication

2011-06-14 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Hi guys, I'm also interested. Some of my comments below. * user authentification (also needs a secure connection (https)) - could be handled by a python script? * user data storage (can be in a database table (e.g. Postgis, SQLite)) - after the login, QGIS webclient could also store

Re: [Qgis-developer] Testing and releases

2011-06-08 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Hi, Some time ago I used xmacro (a Keyboard/mouse macro utility) to create a set of screenshots for a software (GanttProject) in about 15 languages; then it was integrated in OpenOffice documents with relative links. In my experience only the keyboard part was reliable, which requires to have

[Qgis-developer] Re: dealing with long primary keys / tests

2011-06-07 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Hi, Just a short remark , quoting one item of the must needed list posted by Paolo C. yesterday in the user list: automatic testing. In agile programming, you write the tests before implementing new features. Then you track the bugs at the source. Ideally, very few bugs hit the beta-testers

Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: dealing with long primary keys

2011-06-05 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Hi, I suggest you try osm2postgresql, which converts bigint into int4 to be compatible with QGIS and works fine so far. To simplify rendering with QGIS, the osm2postgresql script sets up a PostgreSQL database, imports OSM data into it and process those data (including multi-polygons with holes).

Re: [Qgis-developer] release of 1.7 (+1 for beta)

2011-05-31 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Hi, I agree with Paolo's concerns, and I also believe that ordinary users can benefit from testing the 1.7.0. In addition, they may find a few more blocking bugs... which ultimately may help the community provide an even better version. So +1 for a beta release. Mayeul Le mardi 31 mai 2011 à

[Qgis-developer] Hey! ticket or mailing list when gdal packaging breacks QGIS?!

2011-05-18 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Hi guys, I was asked by Giovanni to open a ticket probably because he believed the qgis-developer list was not the right place to discuss this issue, and Jurgen closes it because it's invalid and trac is not the right place to discuss this issue. What is the right place to discuss gdal packaging

[Qgis-developer] Re: Problem with tiff (cannot open tiff in Ubuntu 11.04)

2011-05-17 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Hi, I mentioned that Ubuntu users cannot open tiffs anymore, on the dev mailing list 2 days ago [1]. Let's hope someone there knows how to solve this! Mayeul [1] see: http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/gdal-1-8-0-no-tiff-support-anymore-in-Ubuntu-11-04-Natty-tc6365327.html Le mardi 17 mai

[Qgis-developer] Re: [Qgis-user] Re: Problem with big tiff

2011-05-17 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Hi Alex, Thanks a lot! Yes you point to two of my problems, I had first problem with one of my qgis and another with another qgis: 1) The problem I cannot solve is to compile myself qgis 1.7.0rc knowing that the gdal I have was upgraded to 1.8.0. Could you please tell me if you know how to switch

[Qgis-developer] Re: Problem with tiff (cannot open tiff in Ubuntu 11.04)

2011-05-17 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Ticket opened here: http://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/3830 no tiff support in Ubuntu 11.04 with ubuntugis gdal (1.8.0) Mayeul Le mardi 17 mai 2011 à 22:06 +0100, Giovanni Manghi a écrit : On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 22:02 +0200, Mayeul Kauffmann wrote: Hi, I mentioned that Ubuntu users cannot open

[Qgis-developer] gdal 1.8.0 / no tiff support anymore in Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty)

2011-05-15 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Hi, libgdal1-dev for Natty provides gdal 1.8.0 which seems not compatible with the code base or some package (does the code links to libtiff 3.X ?) I'm trying to open a geotif from latest Quantum-GIS-3eb0d66 (release-1_7_0 downloaded today at 13h08m43s). It tells me: /path/file.tif is not a

[Qgis-developer] OSM viewer plugin / map unit bug in core when lat-long

2011-05-14 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
mai 2011 à 23:44 +0200, Mayeul Kauffmann a écrit : Hi, I would like to ask those interested in OSM viewing with QGIS, to contribute to an improved QGIS viewer of OpenStreetMap data, in form of a python plugin and, if needed, some modification in the trunk. Recently I received several

[Qgis-developer] OSM viewer / sample styles online

2011-05-14 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
click! I used osm2postgresql to produce the original dataset. Regards, Mayeul PS: For now, those styles and derived works are (c) Mayeul Kauffmann CC-by-SA (similar to OSM maps and data). If this goes to the trunk, I'll re-release with a more permissive licence if needed. I have already released

[Qgis-developer] Contributions for improved QGIS OSM viewer plugin

2011-05-12 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Hi, I would like to ask those interested in OSM viewing with QGIS, to contribute to an improved QGIS viewer of OpenStreetMap data, in form of a python plugin and, if needed, some modification in the trunk. Recently I received several private emails asking me to share my experience and/or files

Re: [Qgis-developer] How to get a string's english translation with pyhton?

2011-05-09 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Hi, Just to help those who might help Ricardo: The plugin ProfileFromLine works only in English, not in other languages. The buggy python lines are around here: http://hub.qgis.org/projects/profilefromline/repository/revisions/master/entry/ProfileFromLine.py#L254 if out of extent in strValue or

Re: [Qgis-developer] update pull request

2011-05-07 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
me for improving my code. All the best, Mayeul Le vendredi 06 mai 2011 à 23:03 +0200, Mayeul Kauffmann a écrit : Hi Jürgen, Thanks a lot for the detailed answer!! Sorry to have bothered you; I agree standardizing indentation can be useful [in fact, it does not make merging more difficult

Re: [Qgis-developer] update pull request

2011-05-07 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
, it is simple to solve this but sorry, no, I'm not smart enough yet...). Sorry for those probably bad practices... Mayeul Le samedi 07 mai 2011 à 15:29 +0200, Sandro Santilli a écrit : On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 12:40:18PM +0200, Mayeul Kauffmann wrote: I would have created a new personal

Re: [Qgis-developer] update pull request

2011-05-07 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
/Developers_Manual#Editing (should we run astyle on code extracts in the wiki? ;-) ) Hope this helps, Mayeul Le samedi 07 mai 2011 à 18:28 +0200, Tim Sutton a écrit : Hi On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Mayeul Kauffmann mayeul.kauffm...@free.fr wrote: Hi, Thanks all for your hints. Still, I

Re: [Qgis-developer] Git repo available for testing

2011-05-07 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Hi, I like versioning systems so learning a new one is interesting. The paradoxal point with this github is as follows: (+) One of the idea is to let non-core developers contribute (make commits... in their branch only) in an easy way. I love the github tool that shows you which branch will merge

Re: [Qgis-developer] using indentation scripts

2011-05-06 Thread mayeul . kauffmann
. Thanks a lot! Mayeul PS: Better to discuss this here for another reason: the hash code in the from/reply to messages sent by git scared my wife ;-) (well, now I redirect them in another folder for sake of her heart). MK - Mail Original - De: Mayeul Kauffmann mayeul.kauffm...@free.fr À

Re: [Qgis-developer] using indentation scripts / update pull reques

2011-05-06 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Hi Jürgen, Thanks a lot for the detailed answer!! Sorry to have bothered you; I agree standardizing indentation can be useful [in fact, it does not make merging more difficult but easier: if indentation is standardized before each commit, nobody will never ever have to merge indentation]. But

[Qgis-developer] using indentation scripts

2011-05-05 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Hi Jef, Following your comments on indentation in my patch, I tried to use prepare-commit.sh for more than one hour in vain. When applied after git commit it says nothing has changed (in effect, after commit, my working copy is ahead). So I created a new branch locally to restart from scratch,

Re: [Qgis-developer] new ubuntu compile problem

2011-05-02 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Hi Marco, Myself I migrated to Ubuntu 10.10 and I had the python issue when building r15676 last Saturday but Martin hint (completely remove your build directory) solved the problem for me. My /etc/apt/sources.list contains the following: deb http://qgis.org/debian-nightly natty main deb-src

Re: [Qgis-developer] Bug or problem under Mac, opening a raster tif

2011-04-27 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Hi, I cannot test on any of these 2 OSes, but just a hint (maybe): In menu Settings/options, CRS tab, there are 3 different options on what to do when a layer has no CRS. I would first check that they are identical on both your platforms. Mayeul Le mercredi 27 avril 2011 à 17:00 +0200, Patrice

Re: [Qgis-developer] QGIS Processing Framework

2011-04-27 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Le mercredi 27 avril 2011 à 20:46 +0200, Paolo Cavallini a écrit : Il giorno mer, 27/04/2011 alle 12.00 -0400, Camilo Polymeris ha scritto: Good point. SAGA, as far as I know, does not provide information on which parameters are considered basic and which are advanced. Perhaps a list of

Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS Webclient checked in

2011-04-23 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Answering to my own question: http://www.qgis.org/pt/community/qgis-case-studies/uster-switzerland.html gives a link to a very nice set of live demos: http://gis.uster.ch/ Le samedi 23 avril 2011 à 01:29 +0200, Mayeul Kauffmann a écrit : Hi, Is there somewhere a live demo of QGIS Webclient

Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS Webclient checked in [translations]

2011-04-23 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Hi, I am currently working on the French translation. Moving this part of the discussion to the qgis-tr mailing list. Mayeul Le vendredi 22 avril 2011 à 15:33 -0500, samuelm...@gmail.com a écrit : Thanks Andreas for this magnificent software, is interesting to see the QGIS's projects in the

Re: [Qgis-developer] how to add multipoint

2011-04-22 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Hi Paolo, Indeed! Not all buttons in the advance editing toolbar are available for all geometry types. With r 15754 and postgis as a backend: You cannot add a point to a multipoint feature (you can only add a new feature). You can move or delete one of its parts . You can copy a multipoint

Re: [Qgis-developer] PostGIS connections: take them from PgAdmin3?

2011-04-22 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Hi, I found the idea appealing and apparently quite simple to implement. On second thought, there are a few issues (nothing blocking, but some work): - If you have 30 databases on 3 local servers (e.g. dev, testing, prod) and only one of those databases has tables with spatial objects, you do not

Re: [Qgis-developer] blocking issues

2011-04-16 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Hi, Thanks for the link! I started working on this. I will not remove the Must fix tag on my own, but already corrected priorities (incorrectly put as critical when in fact there is no crash nor data loss). I'm working mainly on stuff related to vector (and its symbology, legend and printing).

Re: [Qgis-developer] RuleBase - symbol levels don't persistent

2011-04-11 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Hi, Have look here: http://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/3222#comment:18 This is a known bug. I wrote a patch which will be reviewed by wonder. Mayeul Le dimanche 10 avril 2011 à 23:46 +0200, Andrea Peri a écrit : Hi, Using the qgis 1.7 r15690 If I try to set render using Rule Base and

Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: feature freeze: symbol levels in rule-based rendering / OSM

2011-04-06 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
. This gives new rendering possibilities with the rule-based renderer, including easy and beautiful on the fly rule-based rendering of OSM maps, with results similar to mapnik and osmarender. Mayeul Le lundi 21 mars 2011 à 23:06 +0100, Mayeul Kauffmann a écrit : Hi, Tim wrote: Mayeul we will apply

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please vote: Proposed extension to 1.7 release schedule

2011-03-31 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Hi, My preference: option 3 + Marco's suggestion Still, there are more people voting than people going to the hackfest! There were at least 2 messages saying that debugging is not fun (and, no, it is not fun!). And Marco is right about discussing future development directions. For me those taking

Re: [Qgis-developer] GPL in the Tips (warning: license's bigotry inside)

2011-03-26 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Hi Jean Roc, I would suggest to change this tip to something widely accepted, for instance: -- Quantum GIS 1.7 is released under the GNU General Public License [version 3, am I correct?? or version 3 or above?]. The GNU General Public License is a free, copyleft license for

Re: [Qgis-developer] typo?

2011-03-24 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
In label old generation there is already: Data defined placement Data defined properties Data defined buffer Data defined position in qgis r15554. I do not know where the Date defined position is but I guess this should be Data. Mayeul Le jeudi 24 mars 2011 à 17:59 +0100, Paolo Cavallini a écrit

[Qgis-developer] Re: feature freeze: symbol levels in rule-based rendering

2011-03-21 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/3222 patch_on_r15538-rbr_with_symbol_levels.diff I'm testing it and I'll put on trac any issue I might find. Regards, Mayeul Le samedi 19 mars 2011 à 09:40 +0200, Tim Sutton a écrit : Hi On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 10:22 PM, Mayeul Kauffmann mayeul.kauffm...@free.fr wrote

Re: [Qgis-developer] Compiling Linux/ubuntu 64 bits

2011-03-18 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Hi, I compiled QGIS without problem earlier this week without any problem on the exact same architecture (except the window manager): KUbuntu 10.10 64 bits, Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Sep 15 2010, 16:22:56). Could you share the exact sequence of commands you are doing? It might help. Mayeul Le

Re: [Qgis-developer] Status of Release 1.7 and Raster-on-the-Fly

2011-03-17 Thread mayeul . kauffmann
Here are some comments about the second part (which is more a user issue). draw speeds of about 30 seconds I was impressed that QGIS could handle such a large dataset. Any comments? You might gain speed gains doing some or part of the following: - put your dataset in a database (suggested:

RE: [Qgis-developer] Qgis access control question

2011-03-16 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
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 database level and at the shared disk level. All the examples you gave (below) are

[Qgis-developer] feature freeze: symbol levels in rule-based rendering

2011-03-14 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
? Yes personally I would like to see these options too. Best regards Tim Regards, Mayeul - Mail Original - De: Tim Sutton li...@linfiniti.com À: Mayeul Kauffmann mayeul.kauffm...@free.fr Cc: qgis-developer qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org Envoyé: Mardi

Re: [Qgis-developer] Easy postgres setup and OSM pre-processing for QGIS [v.0.2]

2011-03-13 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osm2postgresql Mayeul Le dimanche 06 mars 2011 à 22:51 +0100, Mayeul Kauffmann a écrit : Hi, To help the use of OSM data in QGIS: I created a bash script to automate the installation and configuration of postgresql, to create a database (with postgis and hstore), to download and run

[Qgis-developer] Easy postgres setup and OSM pre-processing for QGIS

2011-03-06 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Hi, To help the use of OSM data in QGIS: I created a bash script to automate the installation and configuration of postgresql, to create a database (with postgis and hstore), to download and run osmosis, load the data into postgres and process them for displaying them on QGIS. The first steps

Re: [Qgis-developer] symbol levels in rule-based rendering

2011-03-06 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
and let users modify it. You wrote:I have seen some samples from you, they all look great! Thank you! I'm glad you like them. All the best, Mayeul Le dimanche 06 mars 2011 à 11:55 +0100, Martin Dobias a écrit : Hi Mayeul On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 2:43 AM, Mayeul Kauffmann mayeul.kauffm...@free.fr

Re: [Qgis-developer] symbol levels in rule-based rendering

2011-03-05 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Hi, Thanks all for sharing your thought on this. I find this discussion very stimulating! Obviously each solution has some advantages and some disadvantages. Here are my comments on Martin's answer. ## Martin wrote: I think we all

[Qgis-developer] Re: symbol levels in rule-based rendering (+level curves and operators in rules)

2011-03-04 Thread mayeul . kauffmann
...@linfiniti.com À: mayeul kauffmann mayeul.kauffm...@free.fr Cc: qgis-developer qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org Envoyé: Vendredi 4 Mars 2011 05h42:09 GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Berne / Rome / Stockholm / Vienne Objet: Re: symbol levels in rule-based rendering Hi Mayeul On Wed, Mar 2, 2011

Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: level curves and operators in rules

2011-03-04 Thread mayeul . kauffmann
- Mail Original - De: mayeul kauffmann mayeul.kauffm...@free.fr À: Tim Sutton li...@linfiniti.com Cc: qgis-developer qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org Envoyé: Vendredi 4 Mars 2011 10h46:43 GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Berne / Rome / Stockholm / Vienne Objet: [Qgis-developer] Re: symbol levels

[Qgis-developer] symbol levels in rule-based rendering

2011-03-02 Thread mayeul . kauffmann
ON and apply all rules -symbol levels OFF and apply first matching rule What do you think? Regards, Mayeul - Mail Original - De: Tim Sutton li...@linfiniti.com À: Mayeul Kauffmann mayeul.kauffm...@free.fr Cc: qgis-developer qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org Envoyé: Mardi 1 Mars 2011 21h44:05 GMT +01:00

Re: [Qgis-developer] icons and styles

2011-02-22 Thread mayeul . kauffmann
Hi, +1 for the style and icon repository! Maybe you will find useful ideas in the way openclipart.org manages collections and packages. One contributor of free icons (SJJB?) sometimes puts several icons in one file, see: http://www.openclipart.org/detail/12368 To generate sets of icons from

Re: [Qgis-developer] icons and styles

2011-02-22 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Tim Sutton wrote: So before anyone writes code, take a google around and see if there is something off-the-shelf we can just repurpose. Hi, It's not django-based but the openclipart.org portal has all what is needed for the svg part. The source code is not directly accessible from the home

Re: [Qgis-developer] New Symbology / OSM/ shapefiles

2011-02-21 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Hi again, kimaidou wrote : Hi Mayeul and devs, Mayel, I had a look at your wiki page which describes how to get and use OSM data. I think you should speak a bit more about pre-processed shapefiles, as it is much easier for people with no server/time/skills to open a shapefile in Qgis

Re: [Qgis-developer] New Symbology / OSM/ ICONS

2011-02-21 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
him a list 2 days ago, and he told me he would spend some times to work on it in the coming weeks. I will let you know when I get some information. Kimaidou 2011/2/19 Mayeul Kauffmann mayeul.kauffm...@free.fr Thanks for the suggestion Martin! Icons are available here

[Qgis-developer] OSM icons for QGIS vector rendering

2011-02-21 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
get some information. Kimaidou 2011/2/19 Mayeul Kauffmann mayeul.kauffm...@free.fr Thanks for the suggestion Martin! Icons are available here: http://www.mediafire.com/?344x43313q3xx8n They are meant to be used with the tutorial here

[Qgis-developer] New Symbology / OSM/ ICONS

2011-02-19 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Thanks for the suggestion Martin! Icons are available here: http://www.mediafire.com/?344x43313q3xx8n They are meant to be used with the tutorial here: http://www.qgis.org/wiki/Using_OpenStreetMap_data I was hoping to find something without restrictions and if possible dedicated to open source

Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: New Symbology (discretized data?)

2011-02-18 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Ramon Andinach wrote: I'd prefer colormap, for the reason that you give. seems ok for me. With categorized and graduated I think that they are clear enough, but not what I would expect. If you were making a graph I was taught discrete and continuous to describe these data types, and that

Re: [Qgis-developer] New Symbology : merge borders on nodes for lines / OSM

2011-02-17 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Hi kimaidou, You wrote: I am trying to use the new symbology to display good looking OpenStreetMap road data. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one working on this. I spent hours designing qgis styles for OSM data and creating a patch. You can work on testing or improving this instead of starting

Re: [Qgis-developer] New Symbology : merge borders on nodes for lines / OSM/ sharing large files?

2011-02-17 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
+0100, Mayeul Kauffmann mayeul.kauffm...@free.fr wrote: Hi kimaidou, You wrote: I am trying to use the new symbology to display good looking OpenStreetMap road data. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one working on this. I spent hours designing qgis styles for OSM data and creating

Re: [Qgis-developer] qgis web

2011-02-14 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Another simple solution is to call directly qgis command line to generate a png on the fly, using the following options: qgis --snapshot image.png --extent xmin,ymin,xmax,ymax data.shp (for more details type qgis --help or man qgis) [I already gave you that hint on the list one month ago, but

Re: [Qgis-developer] A roadmap to QGIS 2.0

2011-02-05 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Hi, Martin Dobias wrote : One of the important things is how/when to merge the threading branch. I know that just few people tried it, so I didn't get much feedback apart from Marco's and Pirmin's comments. Just my two cents as you seem to lack feedback about the threading branch: IMHO, it

Re: [Qgis-developer] Wiki page: switching from old to new symbology, missing bits

2011-01-18 Thread mayeul . kauffmann
Hi Andreas, I proposed significant additions to the Rule based Renderer in a patch here: http://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/3222 http://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/attachment/ticket/3222/rule_renderer_patch_on_r15004-symbols_not_merged.diff Applying this patch would solve several issues, including one

Re: [Qgis-developer] Announcing RoadGraph plugin

2011-01-15 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Hi, I was not able to use the plugin with recent qgis 1.7.0 (r15004) under GNU/Linux Kubuntu 10.10. I tried to copy the downloaded libroadgraphplugin.so in /usr/lib/qgis/plugins/libroadgraphplugin.so The plugin does not appear in the list of plugins to activate. I compiled it from source doing

Re: [Qgis-developer] qgis rendering

2011-01-07 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Le mercredi 05 janvier 2011 à 13:18 +0530, Mohammed Rashad a écrit : Is there any temporary image generated by qgis when rendering a maplayer either raster or vector? -- Rashad Hi Rashad, I'm not sure, but if you want to generate a raster you can use the File menu Save as image or, from

Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: QGIS.pro, Qt Creator and Android - Qt Creator Integration

2010-12-30 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
I have not seen a way to save the project options explicitly, but I have tested that at least some of the compiling options are saved automatically in a CMakeLists.txt.user file which is automatically created next to CMakeLists.txt. For a discussion on a similar issue:

Re: [Qgis-developer] Patch for #3369

2010-12-30 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Le jeudi 30 décembre 2010 à 23:44 +, John Donovan wrote : hope this is the right place to do it. Attaching the patch to the ticket at http://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/3369 will help as well. Mayeul ___ Qgis-developer mailing list

Re: [Qgis-developer] symbol levels with rule based rendering

2010-12-25 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Hi Tim, Thanks for your question. I believe this was already the aim the the rule based renderer which was created some time ago. I have worked with it to try and mimic what mapnik and osmarender are doing with openstreetmap data. As a matter of fact, OSM data is so rich that you can do very

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

2010-12-23 Thread mayeul . kauffmann
Hi, we will try to find something more open friendly for the future - though I dont know if such a thing exists. Yes it does! The R language/statistical software has advanced statistical graphics capacity, cf. e.g.: http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/thumbs.php?sort=votes Here, instead of

Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: [Qgis-user] Problem with kml file

2010-12-23 Thread mayeul . kauffmann
Using Linux grep, you can remove the problematic tags, for instance to remove all lines with TR, do: grep -v TR fluxpyr_221010_1.kml fluxpyr_221010_modif.kml This deletes about two thirds of the lines! You can use sed to have more control. If you want a graphical interface/an easier Windows

[Qgis-developer] symbol levels with rule based rendering

2010-12-22 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Dear list members, I would highly value some advice with some coding problem I facewith rule-based rendering. I am preparing a patch and I have made extensive additions to many parts of the code to support some useful features to render map with complex symbology grammar (see

Re: [Qgis-developer] manageR plugin: hot wo load R package sp

2010-11-22 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
My guess is that this is a GDAL/OGR issue. Which version of GDAL do you have on your system? Carson If so, then running the following might help: #in the shell: which gdal-config gdal-config --prefix gdal-config --libs gdal-config --cflags gdal-config --version gdal-config --ogr-enabled

Re: [Qgis-developer] Continuous Color style

2010-11-10 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Hi Luca, I do not know how to do this in python, but I know how to do it with R. Since R is GNU/GPL, you can probably take some code from it or use the same algorithms. Have a look here for some examples: http://www.r-bloggers.com/color-palettes-in-r/ This R blogger also give a link: