Re: [Qgis-developer] Announce QTiles plugin
One more thing, it would be very useful to offer users the possibility of having transparent background (i.e. no white or project setting background filling color). On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Mathieu Pellerin nirvn.a...@gmail.comwrote: Alex, alright, should have looked at the source code before asking something that could be answered quite easily. :) Few comments and observations after playing with the plugin this morning: - QTiles currently renders tiles without applying antialiasing, resulting in jagged lines. IMO, disabling antialiasing should be optional, maybe through a checkbox in the rendering option window. I've enabled antialiasing by adding painter.setRenderHint(QPainter.Antialiasing) below line 167 in titlingthread.py - The tile background color is hardcoded to be white (line 165, titlingthread.py); it might be better to take the background color from the project's background color setting? The project I used to test out QTiles has a gray background color set through the project settings, and the QTiles white background got me going huh? for a minute :) - As it stands, the labelling rendering is kind of a mess. I understand this isn't something that can be fixed at the QTiles level. Might be worth coordinating with Larry Shafter to see whether there are quick fixes that could be applied to improve things. - To take care of some of the label cut-off, would it be possible for you to not only render the 256x256 tile, but instead do something like this: render a 3 x 3 matrix of 256 x 256 tiles, and save only the central 256 x 256 region as the PNG tile. It wouldn't take care of all label issues, but it'd help reduce it. - One other thing that could be done at the QTiles level is to warn users when it detects that polygon layer(s) are using most problematic labelling settings (i.e. I'm thinking here of relying on centroid of visible polygon centroid, which results in labels duplicated many, many times for each tiles with big polygons, such as provincial / district boundaries) Other than that, I'm loving it more and more ;) Math On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Mathieu Pellerin nirvn.a...@gmail.comwrote: This is probably the best gift given out this christmas : ) Alexander, quick question, does QTiles render the tiles in the CRS defined by the project, or does it automatically switches to the Google Mercator? Best, Math On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 9:24 PM, G. Allegri gioha...@gmail.com wrote: Wow, thanks for this very useful Christmas gift! I'm gonna test it next days for a real application ;-) giovanni Sent from Nexus Il giorno 26/dic/2012 14:25, Alexander Bruy alexander.b...@gmail.com ha scritto: Hi all and sorry for cross-posting, we (NextGIS) are pleased to announce QTiles plugin for QGIS. QTiles designed to generate raster tiles from QGIS projects according to the Slippy Map specification [0] and supports two output types: directory and ZIP-archive. You can get plugin from official repo (don't forget to enable experimental plugins). Comments and bugreports are welcome. Merry Christmas and happy New Year! [0] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Slippy_map_tilenames -- Alexander Bruy ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
Re: [Qgis-developer] Announce QTiles plugin
Il 31/12/2012 04:47, Mathieu Pellerin ha scritto: Alex, alright, should have looked at the source code before asking something that could be answered quite easily. :) Hi Math thanks for these notes. Better open feature reqs here: http://hub.qgis.org/projects/qtiles All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia www.faunalia.eu Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc Nuovi corsi QGIS e PostGIS: http://www.faunalia.it/calendario ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
Re: [Qgis-developer] Announce QTiles plugin
Hi Math, On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Mathieu Pellerin nirvn.a...@gmail.com wrote: Alex, alright, should have looked at the source code before asking something that could be answered quite easily. :) Few comments and observations after playing with the plugin this morning: - QTiles currently renders tiles without applying antialiasing, resulting in jagged lines. IMO, disabling antialiasing should be optional, maybe through a checkbox in the rendering option window. I've enabled antialiasing by adding painter.setRenderHint(QPainter.Antialiasing) below line 167 in titlingthread.py - The tile background color is hardcoded to be white (line 165, titlingthread.py); it might be better to take the background color from the project's background color setting? The project I used to test out QTiles has a gray background color set through the project settings, and the QTiles white background got me going huh? for a minute :) - As it stands, the labelling rendering is kind of a mess. I understand this isn't something that can be fixed at the QTiles level. Might be worth coordinating with Larry Shafter to see whether there are quick fixes that could be applied to improve things. I believe a fix for this is to implement this suggested feature (see [0]): Add option to have boundaries of map canvas's current extent act as obstacles to labels (suggested by Tim Sutton) Starting in January, I will be focusing on labeling fixes and features for 2.0, and this is one of the items I think should make it into that release, especially when it comes to the benefits for tiling. PAL offers the ability to have features act as obstacles, which should allow such a function to be implemented with extent-based temporary features, with a user-defined buffer distance towards the interior of the rendering. Another approach is to shrink the extent rect that is used to clip the temporary geometries sent to PAL. That may result in less labels (not tested, though). With the advent of QTiles, and assuming generators for other formats (mbtiles? [1]) maybe be forthcoming, I will look at implementing this as soon as possible. Regards, Larry [0] http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/New_Labeling_changes_and_roadmap [1] http://mapbox.com/developers/mbtiles/ - To take care of some of the label cut-off, would it be possible for you to not only render the 256x256 tile, but instead do something like this: render a 3 x 3 matrix of 256 x 256 tiles, and save only the central 256 x 256 region as the PNG tile. It wouldn't take care of all label issues, but it'd help reduce it. - One other thing that could be done at the QTiles level is to warn users when it detects that polygon layer(s) are using most problematic labelling settings (i.e. I'm thinking here of relying on centroid of visible polygon centroid, which results in labels duplicated many, many times for each tiles with big polygons, such as provincial / district boundaries) Other than that, I'm loving it more and more ;) Math On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Mathieu Pellerin nirvn.a...@gmail.com wrote: This is probably the best gift given out this christmas : ) Alexander, quick question, does QTiles render the tiles in the CRS defined by the project, or does it automatically switches to the Google Mercator? Best, Math On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 9:24 PM, G. Allegri gioha...@gmail.com wrote: Wow, thanks for this very useful Christmas gift! I'm gonna test it next days for a real application ;-) giovanni Sent from Nexus Il giorno 26/dic/2012 14:25, Alexander Bruy alexander.b...@gmail.com ha scritto: Hi all and sorry for cross-posting, we (NextGIS) are pleased to announce QTiles plugin for QGIS. QTiles designed to generate raster tiles from QGIS projects according to the Slippy Map specification [0] and supports two output types: directory and ZIP-archive. You can get plugin from official repo (don't forget to enable experimental plugins). Comments and bugreports are welcome. Merry Christmas and happy New Year! [0] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Slippy_map_tilenames -- Alexander Bruy ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
Re: [Qgis-developer] Announce QTiles plugin
This is probably the best gift given out this christmas : ) Alexander, quick question, does QTiles render the tiles in the CRS defined by the project, or does it automatically switches to the Google Mercator? Best, Math On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 9:24 PM, G. Allegri gioha...@gmail.com wrote: Wow, thanks for this very useful Christmas gift! I'm gonna test it next days for a real application ;-) giovanni Sent from Nexus Il giorno 26/dic/2012 14:25, Alexander Bruy alexander.b...@gmail.com ha scritto: Hi all and sorry for cross-posting, we (NextGIS) are pleased to announce QTiles plugin for QGIS. QTiles designed to generate raster tiles from QGIS projects according to the Slippy Map specification [0] and supports two output types: directory and ZIP-archive. You can get plugin from official repo (don't forget to enable experimental plugins). Comments and bugreports are welcome. Merry Christmas and happy New Year! [0] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Slippy_map_tilenames -- Alexander Bruy ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
Re: [Qgis-developer] Announce QTiles plugin
Alex, alright, should have looked at the source code before asking something that could be answered quite easily. :) Few comments and observations after playing with the plugin this morning: - QTiles currently renders tiles without applying antialiasing, resulting in jagged lines. IMO, disabling antialiasing should be optional, maybe through a checkbox in the rendering option window. I've enabled antialiasing by adding painter.setRenderHint(QPainter.Antialiasing) below line 167 in titlingthread.py - The tile background color is hardcoded to be white (line 165, titlingthread.py); it might be better to take the background color from the project's background color setting? The project I used to test out QTiles has a gray background color set through the project settings, and the QTiles white background got me going huh? for a minute :) - As it stands, the labelling rendering is kind of a mess. I understand this isn't something that can be fixed at the QTiles level. Might be worth coordinating with Larry Shafter to see whether there are quick fixes that could be applied to improve things. - To take care of some of the label cut-off, would it be possible for you to not only render the 256x256 tile, but instead do something like this: render a 3 x 3 matrix of 256 x 256 tiles, and save only the central 256 x 256 region as the PNG tile. It wouldn't take care of all label issues, but it'd help reduce it. - One other thing that could be done at the QTiles level is to warn users when it detects that polygon layer(s) are using most problematic labelling settings (i.e. I'm thinking here of relying on centroid of visible polygon centroid, which results in labels duplicated many, many times for each tiles with big polygons, such as provincial / district boundaries) Other than that, I'm loving it more and more ;) Math On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Mathieu Pellerin nirvn.a...@gmail.comwrote: This is probably the best gift given out this christmas : ) Alexander, quick question, does QTiles render the tiles in the CRS defined by the project, or does it automatically switches to the Google Mercator? Best, Math On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 9:24 PM, G. Allegri gioha...@gmail.com wrote: Wow, thanks for this very useful Christmas gift! I'm gonna test it next days for a real application ;-) giovanni Sent from Nexus Il giorno 26/dic/2012 14:25, Alexander Bruy alexander.b...@gmail.com ha scritto: Hi all and sorry for cross-posting, we (NextGIS) are pleased to announce QTiles plugin for QGIS. QTiles designed to generate raster tiles from QGIS projects according to the Slippy Map specification [0] and supports two output types: directory and ZIP-archive. You can get plugin from official repo (don't forget to enable experimental plugins). Comments and bugreports are welcome. Merry Christmas and happy New Year! [0] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Slippy_map_tilenames -- Alexander Bruy ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
Re: [Qgis-developer] Announce QTiles plugin
Wow, thanks for this very useful Christmas gift! I'm gonna test it next days for a real application ;-) giovanni Sent from Nexus Il giorno 26/dic/2012 14:25, Alexander Bruy alexander.b...@gmail.com ha scritto: Hi all and sorry for cross-posting, we (NextGIS) are pleased to announce QTiles plugin for QGIS. QTiles designed to generate raster tiles from QGIS projects according to the Slippy Map specification [0] and supports two output types: directory and ZIP-archive. You can get plugin from official repo (don't forget to enable experimental plugins). Comments and bugreports are welcome. Merry Christmas and happy New Year! [0] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Slippy_map_tilenames -- Alexander Bruy ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
