Re: [Qgis-user] Georeferencing Raster

2024-03-18 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via QGIS-User
When you are replying to a digest, kindly observe standard netiquette and only quote the part of the digest message that is relevant to the discussion. Any activity that involves processing raster images is by definition much more resource intensive than editing vector layers. When you are

Re: [Qgis-user] Decoration Grid / drawing tools

2024-01-31 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via QGIS-User
Oh OK. Well I had no idea those capabilities had been added in Qgis, though I do recall a user group conversation about having that type of capability some years ago. It looks someone has put a good work in place to have that capability added in the software, so thanks to the group and all the

[Qgis-user] Decoration Grid / drawing tools

2024-01-28 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via QGIS-User
Good day all I note there is a canvas grid that can be turned on by going to View -> Decorations -> Grid. However the rotation of this appears to be fixed to north/south/east/west and does not appear to have any provision to be changed in rotation in any form, such as for example aligning to

[Qgis-user] zoomToLayers pyqgis

2023-11-18 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via QGIS-User
Good day to all I want to call zoomToLayers in a pyqgis script to zoom the map canvas to a layer which I have just applied a filter to. I am not sure how to do it as all the documented uses of this method seem to apply to different things than to a layer. If the layer is not the currently

Re: [Qgis-user] v.net.salesman

2023-10-04 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via QGIS-User
This package appears to be part of the GRASS software, not specifically Qgis. You should direct support requests to the GRASS user community, not the Qgis one. ___ QGIS-User mailing list QGIS-User@lists.osgeo.org List info:

[Qgis-user] Vector tiles export from processing toolbox

2023-08-15 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via QGIS-User
Good day to all I have used the processing tools to create XYZ raster tiles from my maps quite a lot and going through the rest of what is in there I see a tool to create vector tiles as well. Guessing this might use the GDAL MVT driver to create these tiles. What is different about vector

Re: [Qgis-user] Possible bug?

2023-07-23 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via QGIS-User
Yes it does look like the support for extensions in some of the Linux libraries is a bit illiterate.  It would seem like since extensions are not actually required in Linux that the library creators have not fully understood how to handle them. Certainly notice issues with Gimp. On 23/07/23

Re: [Qgis-user] pegged CPU and vast RAM usage saving Layer Definition File

2023-06-21 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via QGIS-User
I use QLR files quite often and have never had any problems creating them. I have a Python script that reads them to copy the files listed in the QLR between directories and it always works flawlessly. The layers are all rasters 4800x7200 pixels. On 21/06/23 04:27, Greg Troxel via QGIS-User

Re: [Qgis-user] Issue with QgsLayerTreeNode.itemVisibilityChecked

2023-05-23 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via QGIS-User
Strange, I thought I had already tried that. Thanks! On 23/05/23 15:47, David Strip wrote: On 5/22/2023 7:44 PM, Patrick Dunford via QGIS-User wrote: extentGroup = root.findGroup(extentGroupName) extentLayers = extentGroup.children() for extentLayer in extentLayers

[Qgis-user] Issue with QgsLayerTreeNode.itemVisibilityChecked

2023-05-22 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via QGIS-User
Good day I am using a python script running in the Qgis scripting console to read a list of layers in the table of contents and it is supposed to be able to find out which layer's visibility check box is checked or not by calling the method itemVisibilityChecked. So I have a top level group

[Qgis-user] Github Access Problems

2023-04-19 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via QGIS-User
Good morning Qgis project admins In recent times I am unable to sign in to Github to access the Qgis project resources there. This is because Github has mandated two factor authentication for sign-in, and the verification codes they send me by email are never delivered. (Yes, I have checked

Re: [Qgis-user] Issue with displaying all rows in the attribute table in QGIS

2023-03-29 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via QGIS-User
What kind of layer are you accessing? I never see this issue on the layers I use. On 29/03/23 22:01, Pinkal Sanoria via QGIS-User wrote: Hi Team, I am writing to report an issue with QGIS that I have encountered recently. Specifically, I have noticed that when I open the attribute table for

Re: [Qgis-user] [EXTERNAL] Re: Geopackage slow on NAS if not read-only

2023-03-20 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via QGIS-User
of my network using the inbuilt SMB support to a separate Samba server running on the host alongside NFS. On 19/03/23 10:02, David Strip wrote: On 3/18/2023 1:50 PM, Patrick Dunford via QGIS-User wrote: but I use NFS, which is not available on Windows (my computers run Linux) NFS

Re: [Qgis-user] [EXTERNAL] Re: Geopackage slow on NAS if not read-only

2023-03-20 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via QGIS-User
that is something the sqlite developers can resolve. Árni On Sat, 18 Mar 2023 at 21:07, David Strip via QGIS-User wrote: On 3/18/2023 1:50 PM, Patrick Dunford via QGIS-User wrote: but I use NFS, which is not available on Windows (my computers run Linux) NFS is available on Win 10 and 11

Re: [Qgis-user] [EXTERNAL] Re: Geopackage slow on NAS if not read-only

2023-03-18 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via QGIS-User
Thanks for this. You've helped convince me I need to keep a big cabinet with a row of "huge" tower chassises in it to store all my map data instead of forking out to get one of those wee little NASs and save a bit of space :) using Linux on my computer and NFS for networking when I need to

Re: [Qgis-user] [EXTERNAL] Re: Geopackage slow on NAS if not read-only

2023-03-18 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via QGIS-User
I access files over a network and haven't really noticed a speed issue, but I use NFS, which is not available on Windows (my computers run Linux) there are other file formats, geopackage is not the only one out there - spatialite also uses SQLite. On 17/03/23 03:08, Árni Geirsson via

Re: [Qgis-user] [EXTERNAL] Re: Geopackage slow on NAS if not read-only

2023-03-16 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via QGIS-User
there is such a system. It is called a client server DBMS. Apart from the fact they are designed to handle multiple users, they can also economise on network traffic by splitting the workload between the client and the server. On 17/03/23 01:33, Sebastian Gutwein via QGIS-User wrote: This is

Re: [Qgis-user] [EXTERNAL] Re: Geopackage slow on NAS if not read-only

2023-03-16 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via QGIS-User
To share files over a network there has to be specific provision in the software design. Sqlite is designed for single user situations. It is not a full DBMS. It would not be recommended to share shapefiles for multi user since it is still a file based system. To handle multiple users

Re: [Qgis-user] Disable anti-aliasing on XYZ layer

2023-03-12 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via QGIS-User
There's a lot of questions about the context of use of an XYZ layer that you haven't given us detail of. Are you referring to a layer loaded into the Qgis canvas via a data connection or some other context involving XYZ layers? On 10/03/23 02:05, Stephane Goldstein via QGIS-User wrote: Hi.

[Qgis-user] Removing style symbol also removes label

2023-03-03 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via QGIS-User
Good day I have a vector layer that I am applying styles to. It has both symbols and labels applied in the styles. When choosing a symbol, there is a useful feature that I can choose whether or not to have a symbol displayed by a check box that I can check or uncheck. However it seems

Re: [Qgis-user] Formatting the text ?

2023-01-24 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via QGIS-User
. But every that frame represent perfect location of labels here, also their angle, size, long etc. On first pic. what I am able to do, and on the other how it should look like. Thank you for answer, Patrick. W dniu 24.01.2023 o 10:07, Patrick Dunford via QGIS-User pisze: It's not su

Re: [Qgis-user] Formatting the text ?

2023-01-24 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via QGIS-User
It's not super clear what you are asking for because the link is not a project, it is a collection of database tables without an attached project file. If you are referring to the format of text labels displayed on the map canvas on a data layer, that is a project file issue that does not

Re: [Qgis-user] Missing python plugin support on Win7

2022-11-26 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via Qgis-user
Windows 7 is not a currently supported operating system by Microsoft. Support by other software vendors, whether they are the Qgis project itself, or the vendors of external libraries used by Qgis (of which there are many) is very limited and cannot be guaranteed long term. Bug fixes are not

Re: [Qgis-user] large DEM not loading tiles correctly

2022-09-28 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via Qgis-user
*On Behalf Of *Patrick Dunford via Qgis-user *Sent:* Wednesday, September 28, 2022 1:14 PM *To:* qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org *Subject:* Re: [Qgis-user] large DEM not loading tiles correctly CAUTION: This mail comes from outside the University. Please consider this before opening attachments, clic

Re: [Qgis-user] large DEM not loading tiles correctly

2022-09-28 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via Qgis-user
Hello This is a raster format? and how large are the tiles? I spend a lot of time working with raster files often a few thousand at a time. There doesn't seem to be a problem displaying them in Qgis unless they are Progressive Jpeg format, which in more recent years seem to have an issue

Re: [Qgis-user] Profile data (other than plugins) that can cause crashes?

2022-09-21 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via Qgis-user
OK. so further testing with a new profile show the issue is still there with the new profile. It really is a very random issue with no obvious cause. On 22/09/22 14:31, Patrick Dunford wrote: Good day Since I first began to use Kubuntu 22.04 from the .0 release I started to see crashes on

[Qgis-user] Profile data (other than plugins) that can cause crashes?

2022-09-21 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via Qgis-user
Good day Since I first began to use Kubuntu 22.04 from the .0 release I started to see crashes on Qgis that weren't experienced on the same versions running on previous releases of Kubuntu (certainly the case on 20.04). These seem to come and go depending on some random factors, which makes

Re: [Qgis-user] Event loop in QGIS3

2022-08-16 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via Qgis-user
Thanks for this question. I had the same issue in my code, but running a console script in the Qgis application, printing to the console output would achieve the same thing. Is this applicable to scripts that run in the console? On 17/08/22 07:02, Tudorache, Marian via Qgis-user wrote:

Re: [Qgis-user] Convert huge shapefile to small size

2022-07-28 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via Qgis-user
A shapefile is a vector files, as far as I know. I don't think any rasters are stored in this format. If there is a large volume of data, it may have a great many records referencing a large number of features. Vector layers are usually made up of a number of points that together form one

Re: [Qgis-user] Export gpx?

2022-07-24 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via Qgis-user
There is also a limitation to the number of fields that can be stored. I think it is just limited to name? On 25/07/22 08:17, Ramon Andinach via Qgis-user wrote: Hi David, The GPX format is only able to have points and lines. You’ll need to convert the polygon into a line first, and there is

Re: [Qgis-user] SOLVED: Offline background map for large regions

2022-07-22 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via Qgis-user
You can also apply scale rules when using file based layers on your computer. Using a DB is great for certain applications, but if it is a local server on your laptop, you have to weigh up the pros and cons, since it has just shifted the processing workload from one application to another,

Re: [Qgis-user] Offline background map for large regions

2022-07-21 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via Qgis-user
What are you drawing that needs 180 GB of data? That's the whole question. That's a lot of data for vectors. In other words going back to my previous point - you do not need to draw all of the detail at lower scales. Use scaling rules to address that and performance should show a big

Re: [Qgis-user] Startup error and missing directories under Fedora 36

2022-07-18 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via Qgis-user
Hello The metasearch error is the same one that often comes up running the Flatpak edition of Qgis, however the Gis works well. Are you running the Flatpak edition? The directory path may in fact be /.var/app/share etc. Errors dues to the Flatpak environment are possibly down to Flatpak

Re: [Qgis-user] Offline background map for large regions

2022-07-15 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via Qgis-user
What you are talking about is vector based data which can be put into a project as either raster tiles generated statically, or vector tiles generated on the fly, and what you can actually get in practice will depend on what you have the skill or ability to implement. Implementing a tileserver

Re: [Qgis-user] Qgis 3.22.8 Error messages displayed in the GUI

2022-07-11 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via Qgis-user
I filed a bug report for this some time ago and was told it was not a bug in the software. On 11/07/22 23:39, Piet via Qgis-user wrote: Dear List, I used a selfcompiled Qgis, build with 'Debug-Option' set in ccmake. Now there's a small red window in the main window which displayed

Re: [Qgis-user] Offline background map for large regions

2022-07-10 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via Qgis-user
When it comes to a website, generally, a good way of getting background maps (rasters) is XYZ tiles or similar with the different zoom levels. Each higher zoom level doubles the amount of tiles needed, so the way to avoid too many tiles taking up too much space is to reduce the number of zoom

Re: [Qgis-user] Issues with dependencies for Ubuntu 22.04

2022-07-07 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via Qgis-user
If you use apt which repository are you installing from? The Ubuntu repository or the Qgis repository? On 8/07/22 02:29, vicentesmith via Qgis-user wrote: Hello, I'm trying to install QGIS  in a fresh Ubuntu 22.04 system. Before building QGIS, I'm installing the dependencies from

Re: [Qgis-user] NULL in attribute table

2022-07-06 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via Qgis-user
Use the coalesce function to convert the null to something like '' e.g. coalesce ('Field', '') then test in an expression. Otherwise null propagation will cause the expression to fail. On 7/07/22 04:15, Dario C via Qgis-user wrote: Hi there, I'm using an attribute table on my layout. For all

Re: [Qgis-user] trouble adding a basemap from a WMTS source

2022-07-04 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via Qgis-user
If you are getting blank results there is a reasonable prospect of a problem with the service provider. This may include geographic limitations on the data access. Certainly from where I am, the page that is supposed to display the WMTS layers comes up blank, and a connection error results

Re: [Qgis-user] Simplify geometry - snap to grid

2022-06-28 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via Qgis-user
Is this the grid you see in View -> Decorations -> Grid ? On 29/06/22 07:50, Delaz J via Qgis-user wrote: Hi Klaus, Just a guess: the only snap to grid thing I know about is

Re: [Qgis-user] Using OS Raster Data in QGIS

2022-06-25 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via Qgis-user
Generic rules for raster image files is there will be at least two or three files for each tile: * The raster itself * The world file which has a similar extension usually ending with a W e.g. JGW for a JPEG tile * One or more XML files The world file contains the coordinates and pixel

[Qgis-user] WMTS connection timeouts

2022-06-19 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via Qgis-user
Good day Often in my Qgis projects that have WMTS layers I see messages like the following 2022-06-20T07:41:15     WARNING Network request https://basemaps.linz.govt.nz/v1/tiles/aerial/EPSG:3857/16/64195/41592.jpeg?api= timed out Does anyone know enough about WMTS to know why this

Re: [Qgis-user] digitizing

2022-06-17 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via Qgis-user
wrong with the Tif file I was using.  I had the same problem with a couple of files but I went back to the source file and redid the referencing and it is ok. On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 7:46 PM Patrick Dunford via Qgis-user wrote: This is a generic answer, as more information would be needed

Re: [Qgis-user] digitizing

2022-06-16 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via Qgis-user
This is a generic answer, as more information would be needed to determine exactly the situation you are experiencing. If you zoom to the layer, is it then displayed in the same place as the rest of your map? My recollection of the georeferencer is it produces a world file to go with the

Re: [Qgis-user] Purchase of old satellite photos for small AOI

2022-06-11 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via Qgis-user
Aerial photography might be a better option to explore for a small area like that, if it is available in your country. On 12/06/22 06:58, Patrick Dunford wrote: What do you call "high resolution"? The highest resolution I see from my area on the likes of Google Maps is actually aerial

Re: [Qgis-user] Purchase of old satellite photos for small AOI

2022-06-11 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via Qgis-user
What do you call "high resolution"? The highest resolution I see from my area on the likes of Google Maps is actually aerial photography, taken the traditional way with a plane. On 4/06/22 06:24, Piotr Kania via Qgis-user wrote: Hello everyone, do You know of a service/company that allows you

Re: [Qgis-user] issue with ”Task complete: Counting features in...”

2022-05-16 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via Qgis-user
It may well be the use of a cloud drive that could cause some problems. I use a cloud drive as backup but have never tried having it synced to a computer. Is there only one user using it all of the time? On 16/05/22 21:43, Alexandru Munteanu via Qgis-user wrote: Thank you, Nicolas, for your

Re: [Qgis-user] aq, floods and GIS

2022-04-26 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via Qgis-user
This appears to be irrelevant and should be removed as spam. On 27/04/22 11:50, Dave Stevens via Qgis-user wrote: https://blog.cerowrt.org/post/state_of_fq_codel/ ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org List info:

Re: [Qgis-user] RAM and processing speed requirements for QGIS

2022-04-20 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via Qgis-user
As others have written it will depend on the tasks you are doing. The performance of any computer can be significantly improved by replacing HDDs with SSDs. Modern computers using the NVMe standards for SSD (M.2 interface etc) can offer a great deal of speed improvement for SSD storage over

[Qgis-user] Issue " GDAL chokes opening attached JPG, yet works OK in other applications #1545 "

2022-04-17 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via Qgis-user
Just noted on the closed issue that I saw this problem for the first time today. The error message returned by Qgis being 2022-04-18T01:53:51     WARNING D1961_94CFT_92XGM_94CFW_92XGN_f6e10828_d0fa_42e6_a318_901bef99006f :: /mnt/sharerw/mainpc/maps/References/Volume 11-12 - MSL/Station -

Re: [Qgis-user] Help with scales in print layouts for geographic CRS

2022-04-06 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via Qgis-user
On 6/04/22 11:34, Greg Troxel via Qgis-user wrote: Jorge Gustavo Rocha via Qgis-user writes: 2) Using a geographic CRS, the same 150mm x 150mm map, at the same 1:1 scale, the area is bigger then the 1500m polygon. The result is attached

Re: [Qgis-user] Qgis on Windows 10 ARM

2022-03-20 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via Qgis-user
There are a few possible resolutions available, but the hardware specs could limit a lot of them significantly. If any option requires $$$ it would be a toss up whether to put that towards a more capable device with a x86 CPU. On 21/03/22 06:52, Thayer Young via Qgis-user wrote: Hi Rayfson,

Re: [Qgis-user] Qgis on ARM

2022-03-19 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via Qgis-user
unford via Qgis-user wrote: Are packages produced for ARM platforms? On 17/03/22 05:22, Dave Stevens via Qgis-user wrote: > On Tue, 15 Mar 2022 16:33:40 -0400 > rayfson souza via Qgis-user wrote: > >> *OLÁ, SAUDAÇÕES, NÃO CONSIGO INSTALAR AS NOVAS

Re: [Qgis-user] (no subject)

2022-03-16 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via Qgis-user
(1636), Vicente López, Buenos Aires, Argentina | https://goo.gl/maps/NZCFPwVkFFf14cR67 On Wed, 16 Mar 2022 at 16:45, Patrick Dunford via Qgis-user wrote: Are packages produced for ARM platforms? On 17/03/22 05:22, Dave Stevens via Qgis-user wrote: > On Tue, 15 Mar 2022 16:33

Re: [Qgis-user] (no subject)

2022-03-16 Per discussione Patrick Dunford via Qgis-user
Are packages produced for ARM platforms? On 17/03/22 05:22, Dave Stevens via Qgis-user wrote: On Tue, 15 Mar 2022 16:33:40 -0400 rayfson souza via Qgis-user wrote: *OLÁ, SAUDAÇÕES, NÃO CONSIGO INSTALAR AS NOVAS VERSÕES DO QGIS 3.22 NO MEU NOVO COMPUTADOR, GOSTARIA MUITO DE ME AJUDAR POR