[Qgis-user] Regular Shapes Digitising

2018-02-23 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
Good afternoon (as it is where I live) Can someone point me to a tutorial or something about how to use the tools on the Regular Shapes Digitising toolbar I'm wondering if it will help me draw rectangles or squares more easily than the usual polygon thing when you have to try to straighten

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS 2.99 crashing on 17.10 with project properties menu

2017-12-11 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
it's reported as a known issue https://issues.qgis.org/issues/17589 https://issues.qgis.org/issues/17610 On 12/12/17 06:40, Randal Hale wrote: So I filed a bug report (17662) - but I can't actually say that this is a bug. I did two tests and both ended up with QGIS 2.99 crashing. So I think

Re: [Qgis-user] ubuntugis: Broken after update to 2.18.14

2017-11-29 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
I have a better idea...there will be a new LTS out in four months and all these problems will go away because it will have the right packages to install without ubuntugis. On 29/11/17 23:08, Pieter du Plooy wrote: Hi guys My two cents on this one..(and on a slightly off track) I have

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS SVG: outdated warning

2017-11-25 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
It looks a lot better in master than I used to remember from way back (I started at 1.8). Maybe Qt have done some work on it. On 26/11/17 01:07, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote: I added some layers, some blending and transparency, but to be honest both in 2.x and 3 outcomes (pdf and svg) were more

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS SVG: outdated warning

2017-11-25 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
It means PDF. I don't recall there ever being a postscript option. On 26/11/17 02:03, Tobias Wendorff wrote: I know, but the message is wrong. Neither there is QT4, nor there is EPS export in current QGIS ;) Am Sa, 25.11.2017, 10:59 schrieb Patrick Dunford: Vector-based output is available

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS SVG: outdated warning

2017-11-25 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
I have produced a number of maps that are exported to produce vector graphics that can be inserted into a word processing document to make a multipage document. Here there were a lot of issues with the lines changing thickness and styles when the SVG export was used. The PDF output was much

Re: [Qgis-user] Assistance for Mac User

2017-11-21 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
It's not just a Mac issue - I have had the same problem on Windows and Linux. In my opinion this feature is not well documented (or possibly implemented). On 21/11/17 21:26, Grant Boxer wrote: I have an associate with a Mac and I am trying to found out how and where to put custom svg files

Re: [Qgis-user] Photos2Shape plugin in Qgis 2.8.9-Wien

2017-11-20 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/132697/getting-no-module-name-exifread-error-from-qgis-photo2shape-plugin On 20/11/17 21:21, Ben Jones wrote: Hello Everyone, I have just tried to install the Photos2Shape plugin in Qgis 2.8.9-Wien installed on a MacBook Pro running Mountain Lion OSX

Re: [Qgis-user] Basic Help

2017-10-27 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
Hi Louise These are all fairly straightforward queries to work on, so I am sure it is just a matter of learning the way the software works. I have been using this software for about five years and it is one of the best open source packages I have ever worked with. It may be more useful for you

Re: [Qgis-user] Filter syntax for date fields

2017-10-21 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
shapefile, then the provider is GDAL and you are > limited to this operands: > > http://www.gdal.org/ogr_sql.html > If you used Geopackage or Spatialite or PostGIS you would probably > have more datetime specific operands that might work with your field. > Alexandre Neto > > &g

Re: [Qgis-user] Filter syntax for date fields

2017-10-20 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
-pirel > li > * GitHub: https://github.com/luipir > * Mastering QGIS 2nd Edition: > * https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/masteri > ng-qgis-second-edition > ********* > ***

[Qgis-user] Filter syntax for date fields

2017-10-19 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
I have a shapefile table with 300,000 records of polygons that I want to filter for display on the map canvas. I want to use the field called "date" which is defined as a Qdate in the fields list in the shapefile's properties. The question is how to put in the filter string in the correct syntax

Re: [Qgis-user] wrong SRS identification (new information)

2017-10-15 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
I had issues with later masters not detecting CRS from project files generated by earlier masters. My projects and shapefiles mostly use EPSG:3857 and Qgis 3 would set the project to have no assigned CRS. I have not seen issues with any version of 2.18, or opening 2.18 project files in 3.0,

Re: [Qgis-user] Building QGIS >= 2.18.12 on Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya - with Oracle provider?

2017-10-12 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
If you go to Add Vector Layer and select the source type as Database, ODBC is the first entry in the list of database types. On 12/10/17 22:37, GregStef wrote: Hi Patrick. Sorry for the late reply, I had a small accident and I was nailed to bed for a while. I just installed 2.14, but cannot

Re: [Qgis-user] GRASS plugin

2017-10-11 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
Grass plugin can be affected by use of Ubuntugis if you are running Ubuntu 16.04 or older. Later versions of Ubuntu don't require Ubuntigis to run the Grass plugin. On 12/10/17 06:32, Siwei wrote: Dear all, Do you have any solution on how to load GRASS data in QGIS? Before, I need to

Re: [Qgis-user] ubuntugis-nightly: No providers for GRASS and SAGA in Processing?

2017-10-10 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
up a VM with zesty and QGIS 2.99 from the debian-nightly repository WITHOUT ubuntugis. And ... tada ... no GRASS nor SAGA algos in processing again. So in which way is this a solution? Cheers Bernd Am 28.09.2017, 10:39 Uhr, schrieb Patrick Dunford <blackwhite...@gmail.com>: It's

Re: [Qgis-user] ubuntugis-nightly: No providers for GRASS and SAGA in Processing?

2017-10-10 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
... no GRASS nor SAGA algos in processing again. So in which way is this a solution? Cheers Bernd Am 28.09.2017, 10:39 Uhr, schrieb Patrick Dunford <blackwhite...@gmail.com>: It's simply that you can eliminate the ubuntugis dependency as a later release of Ubuntu does not require it. Runnin

Re: [Qgis-user] GRASS support lost (again) on Ubuntu/Mint

2017-10-08 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
, and that port is blocked. On 27/09/17 23:07, Andreas Wicht wrote: On 27 September 2017 at 11:51, Patrick Dunford <blackwhite...@gmail.com> wrote: In this case, that command times out. That is very odd. I just tested it here on my system and that command works flawlessly - no timeouts. $ apt-k

Re: [Qgis-user] Windows UNC paths in output dir

2017-10-04 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
You can add a feature request on the Qgis Bugs website: https://issues.qgis.org But it is already possible to browse network directories (in Windows you just go to the Network area in the file open dialog and browse from there) However typing the \\servername\share part of the path is a

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS 3: edit vertices of geometries with exact coordinate values

2017-10-03 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
What we need from a node editor is up/down arrows to make very small positional coordinate changes. On 04/10/17 03:10, Andreas Neumann wrote: Yes - well hidden. The other problem is that in the node editor, the selected node isn't marked/centered in the list of coordinates - this, together

Re: [Qgis-user] Windows UNC paths with QGIS

2017-10-03 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
If you are typing the entire path manually you must change all the slashes into forward slashes. Make it easy for yourself and cllick the Browse button then type into the filename box at the bottom of the open file dialog: \\servername\share then browse to the file to be opened. On

Re: [Qgis-user] Compiling QGIS3 with grass7 from MacPorts

2017-09-29 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
GNU tool chain. A vm is certainly an option, but this doesn't look hard. Cheers, Dave On 9/28/17 6:53 PM, Patrick Dunford wrote: OK given the limited support for non-native platforms such as MacOS the virtualbox option is worth considering. I have drawn hundreds of km of maps in virtual

Re: [Qgis-user] Compiling QGIS3 with grass7 from MacPorts

2017-09-28 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
platform -- it runs the whole GNU tool chain. A vm is certainly an option, but this doesn't look hard. Cheers, Dave On 9/28/17 6:53 PM, Patrick Dunford wrote: OK given the limited support for non-native platforms such as MacOS the virtualbox option is worth considering. I have drawn hundreds

Re: [Qgis-user] Compiling QGIS3 with grass7 from MacPorts

2017-09-28 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
QGIS, just not the unrealeased QGIS3. Cheers, Dave On 9/28/17 6:14 PM, Patrick Dunford wrote: Ok, I'm not familirar with a separate build step, don't remember seeing that in the install documentation, unless that is a specific variation for your platform? On 29/09/17 14:12, David Liontooth w

Re: [Qgis-user] Compiling QGIS3 with grass7 from MacPorts

2017-09-28 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
9/28/17 5:55 PM, Patrick Dunford wrote: Hi, this is only a generalised comment about building packages and may not be specific enough for your application. When I build packages from source they come with Grass so I don't see how it would not be included in the same scripts for the platform you

Re: [Qgis-user] Compiling QGIS3 with grass7 from MacPorts

2017-09-28 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
Hi, this is only a generalised comment about building packages and may not be specific enough for your application. When I build packages from source they come with Grass so I don't see how it would not be included in the same scripts for the platform you are using. Are there any error logs

Re: [Qgis-user] OpenLayersPlugin - QGIS crashes using satellite pictures

2017-09-28 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
Is there free aerial photography in your region in geojpegs you can download and open as a raster layer. In some countries that is possible. On 28/09/17 20:33, Nicole Stoffels wrote: Dear QGIS-users, we have some issues with the satellite pictures within the OpenLayers Plugin. The maps are

Re: [Qgis-user] ubuntugis-nightly: No providers for GRASS and SAGA in Processing?

2017-09-28 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
no providers for GRASS and SAGA. What does this have to do with the version of my OS? All necessary sources derive directly from qgis.org or ubuntugis-unstable, as far as I can see. Cheers Bernd Am 27.09.2017, 23:12 Uhr, schrieb Patrick Dunford <blackwhite...@gmail.com>: you c

Re: [Qgis-user] GRASS support lost (again) on Ubuntu/Mint

2017-09-27 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
Isn't there possibly an option not to release packages for xenial and older until it's tested that ubuntugis works. As it only affects these older versions. I can sympathise with OPs as I have been caught many times forgetting to comment out the repos in sources.list and unexpectedly being

Re: [Qgis-user] ubuntugis-nightly: No providers for GRASS and SAGA in Processing?

2017-09-27 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
to avoid having to convert my project files back to 2.18 having been doing my real life projects on 2.99 since it first came out. On 28/09/17 09:57, Patrick Dunford wrote: Another thread we just talked about this, it's an issue with the units not being available in ubuntugis yet Only xenial

Re: [Qgis-user] ubuntugis-nightly: No providers for GRASS and SAGA in Processing?

2017-09-27 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
Another thread we just talked about this, it's an issue with the units not being available in ubuntugis yet Only xenial and older require ubuntugis for the latest versions, if you are running 16.10 or later, or a later debian, these issues don't occur. On 28/09/17 04:14, Bernd Vogelgesang

Re: [Qgis-user] GRASS support lost (again) on Ubuntu/Mint

2017-09-27 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
There is also a problem with a missing key for the ubuntugis repositories (089EBE08314DF160). There are no instructions provided on where the key can be obtained. On 27/09/17 19:30, Andre Joost wrote: Am 26.09.2017 um 21:04 schrieb Patrick Dunford: If you can actually state where abouts

Re: [Qgis-user] GRASS support lost (again) on Ubuntu/Mint

2017-09-26 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
I have tested on 16.04 and GRASS plugin does not work on Qgis 2.18.13 on Ubuntu Xenial with the Ubuntugis packages, just as it was reported at the top of this thread. That is Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, not any derivative like Linux Mint. The reason the newer versions work for GRASS is they don't need

Re: [Qgis-user] GRASS support lost (again) on Ubuntu/Mint

2017-09-26 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
floating point numbers. Feel free to contact the developers or report a bug if you are still concerned. You may also wish to contact the ubuntugis maintainers. On 27/09/17 01:50, Micha Silver wrote: Hi Patrick On 09/26/2017 02:10 PM, Patrick Dunford wrote: The issue is, even the latest version

Re: [Qgis-user] GRASS support lost (again) on Ubuntu/Mint

2017-09-26 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
Vogelgesang wrote: Am 26.09.2017, 10:40 Uhr, schrieb Patrick Dunford <blackwhite...@gmail.com>: There are some issues supporting xenial, are you able to test on a more recent version of Ubuntu or Debian, maybe in a virtual machine. I am going to have a look at my 17.04 vm with the

Re: [Qgis-user] GRASS support lost (again) on Ubuntu/Mint

2017-09-26 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
There are some issues supporting xenial, are you able to test on a more recent version of Ubuntu or Debian, maybe in a virtual machine. I am going to have a look at my 17.04 vm with the latest 2.18 to see. I would not recommend Mint - apart from being not an officially supported distro, the

Re: [Qgis-user] Installing QGIS lastest release in UBUNTU 14.04

2017-09-21 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
On 20/09/17 02:57, Andre Joost wrote: Semms you got stuck with the gdal-abi package. You can try the solution given at https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/218528/qgis-depends-on-gdal-abi-2-1-1-not-installable You may try the ubuntugis unstable ppa, instead of the ubuntugis (stable)

Re: [Qgis-user] How to disable postgresql in the build of QGIS2.99

2017-09-21 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
/include/qt5keychain \ -DQTKEYCHAIN_LIBRARY:FILEPATH=/usr/local/lib/libqt5keychain.dylib \ -DQT_LRELEASE_EXECUTABLE:FILEPATH=/opt/local/libexec/qt5/bin/lrelease \ On 9/20/17 10:24 PM, Patrick Dunford wrote: Ok so I gave you a Linux answer :) The install file I have says you do a postgresql inst

Re: [Qgis-user] How to disable postgresql in the build of QGIS2.99

2017-09-21 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
/include \ -DQSCINTILLA_LIBRARY:FILEPATH=/opt/local/libexec/qt5/lib/libqscintilla2_qt5.dylib \ -DQTKEYCHAIN_INCLUDE_DIR:PATH=/usr/local/include/qt5keychain \ -DQTKEYCHAIN_LIBRARY:FILEPATH=/usr/local/lib/libqt5keychain.dylib \ -DQT_LRELEASE_EXECUTABLE:FILEPATH=/opt/local/libexec/qt5/bin/lrelease \ On 9/20/17 10:24 PM, Patrick

Re: [Qgis-user] Building QGIS >= 2.18.12 on Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya - with Oracle provider?

2017-09-21 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
I did a lot of dbms stuff with other platforms, but not qgis or linux. I see there is ODBC support in the Linux edition, does that not give you any options? On 21/09/17 01:28, GregStef wrote: OK, I see. Anyway, thanks for your time and patience... Best regards. -- Sent from:

Re: [Qgis-user] Building QGIS3 for OS X with MacPorts

2017-09-21 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
/qgspostgresconn.h:33:10:    fatal error: 'libpq-fe.h' file not found    #include     ^    1 error generated. /tests/src/providers/testqgspostgresprovider.cpp seems to demand it. Cheers, Dave On 9/20/17 11:01 AM, Patrick Dunford wrote: 3.0 is not released yet, you can only get 2.99 development

Re: [Qgis-user] Building QGIS3 for OS X with MacPorts

2017-09-21 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
/src/providers/testqgspostgresprovider.cpp seems to demand it. Cheers, Dave On 9/20/17 11:01 AM, Patrick Dunford wrote: 3.0 is not released yet, you can only get 2.99 development versions. You get them from Github: https://github.com/qgis/QGIS Click on "Clone or Download" button on

Re: [Qgis-user] Building QGIS3 for OS X with MacPorts

2017-09-20 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
3.0 is not released yet, you can only get 2.99 development versions. You get them from Github: https://github.com/qgis/QGIS Click on "Clone or Download" button on the right and then "Download Zip" This is for the latest release, you can get older ones if you know the commit ID On

Re: [Qgis-user] Building QGIS >= 2.18.12 on Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya - with Oracle provider?

2017-09-20 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
Unsure really; one of the reasons to build from source is to try out some development features before they are released. I know more about that than I do about specific DBMS support; as it's fortunate that all of my data can be in shapefiles, which have very simple Dbase tables built into

Re: [Qgis-user] Building QGIS >= 2.18.12 on Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya - with Oracle provider?

2017-09-20 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
The resource or performance hit of a VM depends very much on what you are doing with it. It's not a given that it will necessarily be slower. A Linux VM can run in as little as 15 GB of disk space, and my Linux VM running Qgis is faster than one running Qgis on Windows 7, and the Windows 7 VM

Re: [Qgis-user] Building QGIS >= 2.18.12 on Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya - with Oracle provider?

2017-09-19 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
Off memory I had a similar issue building 2.18 on Ubuntu 17.04, and it started up but wouldn't load PyQt or something like that. Building some masters on Debian 9 was more reliable, but it will still say something is missing on startup (osgeo or something, whatever that is). On 20/09/17

Re: [Qgis-user] Imported KML files loses format (e.g. colour coding and line size)

2017-09-19 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
4070 left cropped logo 80% reduction Aquatic Ecology Limited Unit 1/454 Madras Street Christchurch 8014 *From:*Patrick Dunford [mailto:blackwhite...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, 19 September 2017 4:13 p.m. *To:* wins...@ael.org.nz *Subject:* Re: [Qgis-user] Imported KML files loses format (e.g

Re: [Qgis-user] Building QGIS >= 2.18.12 on Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya - with Oracle provider?

2017-09-19 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
I run it all the time in VMs now and I run the development builds most of the time. Even with projects with a lot of raster images, it only uses about 5 GB of RAM. On 20/09/17 00:01, GregStef wrote: Hi Patrick, thanks for the quick reply. I am not sure how 'far' Linux mint is from Ubuntu.

Re: [Qgis-user] Building QGIS >= 2.18.12 on Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya - with Oracle provider?

2017-09-19 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
My counsel is build to one of the supported platforms (Debian or [a]Ubuntu), not derivatives. This can be done easily in a virtual machine. There are some xenial-specific issues in general which are not there if using a later release. None of these comments may be relevant to your particular

Re: [Qgis-user] Imported KML files loses format (e.g. colour coding and line size)

2017-09-18 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
to with this program as well. I guess I’ll just have to go with it! In reply, Winsome Marshall ph: (03)366 4070 left cropped logo 80% reduction Aquatic Ecology Limited Unit 1/454 Madras Street Christchurch 8014 *From:*Qgis-user [mailto:qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] *On Behalf Of *Patrick

Re: [Qgis-user] Imported KML files loses format (e.g. colour coding and line size)

2017-09-17 Per discussione Patrick Dunford
Hi Winsome Good to see another user in Chch :) I think this is true pretty much with any layer you bring in, you would find the same if you add any shapefile for example. You can store the paths when imported into different shapefiles and then set a style per shapefile, or multiple styles

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