Re: [Qgis-developer] Question on inverted polygon renderer

2014-06-21 Thread Régis Haubourg
Hi, I finished the video demonstration of mask plugin use case. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u29yGSQhX2g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u29yGSQhX2g Cheers Régis -- View this message in context:

Re: [Qgis-developer] Question on inverted polygon renderer

2014-06-17 Thread Régis Haubourg
Hi Bernard, plugin is coming this week I think. Bernhard Ströbl wrote Thinking about QGIS server: Would there be a chance to use what you describe to keep labels staying away from the edge of the requested map? Bernhard current implementation adds a In_mask(srid) expression, that can be

Re: [Qgis-developer] Question on inverted polygon renderer

2014-06-17 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Here's a quick example of what the combination of inverted polygon and shapeburst fill can do: http://i.imgur.com/7n6rxJx.jpg Since shapeburst fill can use map-based units, the outer glows-like effect of polygons can be spatially relevant, i.e. in the above map, the glow could represent a

Re: [Qgis-developer] Question on inverted polygon renderer

2014-06-17 Thread Hugo Mercier
Hi, Le 17/06/2014 09:32, Régis Haubourg a écrit : Hi Bernard, plugin is coming this week I think. Yes, it is already available at https://github.com/Oslandia/mask_plugin A 1.0 version for the official qgis repository is on its way. Bernhard Ströbl wrote Thinking about QGIS server: Would

Re: [Qgis-developer] Question on inverted polygon renderer

2014-06-17 Thread Bernhard Ströbl
Hi Hugo, let me explain: I use mapcache to preproduce tiles of my background layers rendered by QGIS server. Thus sometimes labels get cut because they are rendered too close to the edge of the requested map. I was attracted by Régis Label features of layers only for objects intersecting the

Re: [Qgis-developer] Question on inverted polygon renderer

2014-06-17 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi Régis, Thank you for the explanations and for funding it! I think it is very cool, but as it is an unusual feature it probably needs a bit of explaining in the manual. Esp. if you combine it with the ShapeBurst fill. People need to understand that they are styling anything but the current /

Re: [Qgis-developer] Question on inverted polygon renderer

2014-06-17 Thread Régis Haubourg
I just released the mask plugin version 1.0 in qgis repository. I'll be glad to have some feedback on it. We still need to document it, what will be done in github dedicated wiki. Documenting inverted polygon renderer should be done in qgis main doc. How do we proceed to add sections in it?

[Qgis-developer] Question on inverted polygon renderer

2014-06-16 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi all, I used the inverted polygon renderer for the first time. Cool! Obviously this is very useful for the serial printing. My question is: are there other use cases besides the serial printing that the ones who ordered or developed this feature had in mind? Perhaps, something in combination

Re: [Qgis-developer] Question on inverted polygon renderer

2014-06-16 Thread Régis Haubourg
Hi Andreas, I'm the funder, Hugo Mercier from Oslandia is the developper. It's the right time to do some teasing I guess ;-). The inverted polygon renderer idea appeared when writing specifications for an improved mask tool . We will soon release new version of mask plugin that allows the

Re: [Qgis-developer] Question on inverted polygon renderer

2014-06-16 Thread Nyall Dawson
On 17/06/2014 6:44 am, Régis Haubourg regis.haubo...@eau-adour-garonne.fr wrote: inverted style + shapeburst give crazy cool rendering! A quick tip if you're using shapeburst with inverted polygons - you must have the shade to a set distance option selected, and set a relatively small distance.

Re: [Qgis-developer] Question on inverted polygon renderer

2014-06-16 Thread Bernhard Ströbl
Hi Régis, this sounds great (I have not tried, though), especially the inverted style stuff. Thinking about QGIS server: Would there be a chance to use what you describe to keep labels staying away from the edge of the requested map? Bernhard Am 16.06.2014 22:43, schrieb Régis Haubourg: Hi