Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS windows v's linux from a newbie perspective

2009-04-02 Thread Craig Leat
Andreas Neumann: Storage space is so cheap nowadays that I store all of my data in tiffs. The price has come done, but I wouldn't call it cheap in Africa. A 1Tb NAS cost me the equivalent of three months groceries for my family. ECW is easy to compile on Linux. I never tried to compile MrSid.

Re: [Qgis-user] Re: [Qgis-developer] Venue for next hackfest...Vienna?

2009-04-02 Thread Werner Macho
Hi to all! I already mentioned .. It seems that there's no _must_ to do the hackfest at this date in vienna.. If there are other (and better) places I'm open to come there too. I were just at the university and asked and got acceptance immediately. I told them that I've to ask first and if

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS windows v's linux from a newbie perspective

2009-04-02 Thread Agustin Lobo
I absolutely disagree. I'm not the question, I can compile (provided the appropriate directions are there). The problem is that if my 30 students twice a year have to compile or, worse, have to hire someone to do it in order to be able to use mrsid/ecw, they will just keep using windows. Or not

AW: [Qgis-user] Re: [Qgis-developer] Venue for next hackfest...Vienna?

2009-04-02 Thread Hugentobler Marco
Hi Werner Thank you for the organisation. In my opinion Vienna is a very nice place for a hackfest, so +1 from my side. I think the expensiveness is not so bad (at least compared to Zurich). And the location in the center of Europe makes it easily accessible for most community members (and

[Qgis-user] AW: [Qgis-developer] Venue for next hackfest...Vienna?

2009-04-02 Thread Düster Horst
Hi all It's a great idea to meet in Vienna. +1 Horst Dr. Horst Düster Stv. Amtschef / GIS-Koordinator Kanton Solothurn Bau- und Justizdepartement Amt für Geoinformation SO!GIS Koordination Rötistrasse 4 CH-4501 Solothurn Telefon ++41(0)32

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS windows v's linux from a newbie perspective

2009-04-02 Thread Andreas Neumann
so in my opinion you should contact the companies involved with MrSID and ecw to change their licence in some sort of dual licence like other companies did (e.g. Trolltech, MySQL). After all they are interested in widespread use of their technology - so they should open up and change their licence

Re: [Qgis-user] Projection question

2009-04-02 Thread Mikhail Umorin
Privet, Maxim — I am not 100% sure, but I am reasonably certain: I got them from a public Texas agency that provides spatial data (www.tnris.org). How do I find out for sure? Mikhail. On 3/31/09 at 8:25 PM, in message 419243249.20090331202...@gis-lab.info, Maxim Dubinin s...@gis-lab.info

Re: [Qgis-user] Projection question

2009-04-02 Thread Mikhail Umorin
Thank you for the suggestions, Zoltan — Unfortunately, no luck. I enabled on the fly and set project's CRS to WGS84 (same as the GoeTiff's) but no changes in the way they are rendered in QGIS: different size and far from each other. What else can I try? Mikhail. On 4/1/09 at 3:14 AM, in

Re: [Qgis-user] Re: [Qgis-developer] Venue for next hackfest...Vienna?

2009-04-02 Thread Borys Jurgiel
Thursday 02 April 2009 15:25:28 Jürgen E. Fischer napisał(a): Hi Werner, On Thu, 02. Apr 2009 at 09:09:19 +0200, Werner Macho wrote: I were just at the university and asked and got acceptance immediately. Cool. +1 from me. No problem for me too :-)

Re: [Qgis-user] Python scripting

2009-04-02 Thread Alex Mandel
georgew wrote: Hi all, I have not been able to find an answer to this question: Using the latest stable version of QGIS from OSGeo4W on WinXP SP3 is it possible to write free standing Python programs/scripts that will access QGIS objects (vectors, shapefiles, etc) and process them in batch,

Re: [Qgis-user] Python scripting

2009-04-02 Thread Carson Farmer
Alessandro et al., I'm also interested in using python and QGIS for simple scripts espacially for batch processing, and some examples could be very useful! Attached is a python script for performing some basic geoprocessing functions on vector layers. The header of the file contains usage

Re: [Qgis-user] Python scripting

2009-04-02 Thread georgew
Alessandro et al., I'm also interested in using python and QGIS for simple scripts espacially for batch processing, and some examples could be very useful! Attached is a python script for performing some basic geoprocessing functions on vector layers. The header of the file contains usage

[Qgis-user] Re: MrSID programs

2009-04-02 Thread mtnbiketrail
I saw recently on the list where someone was trying to use .sid files. I found these programs on Lizardtech. Maybe they will be useful to someone... Tom http://www.lizardtech.com/download/dl_options.php?page=geo#12 MrSID SDW Command line utility that generates .sdw file for associated