Re: [Qgis-user] Testing OSGeo4W 64bit

2013-08-28 Thread Brad Nesom
I am still not successful with the install. I have tried several times using different folders than the 32 install and it creates all the folders (both the application and the http download), also the application group that I select (different from 32 bit) is there. But there are no links

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS 1.8: How to produce a sheet line system map?

2013-03-01 Thread Brad Nesom
to shorten the process(and make the system a bit more uniform). What I do is 1. decide on the paper size I want, 2. create a shapefile with that size polygon, 3. scale, rotate and move that polygon up to world coordintates, 4. copy that polygon and move each one along alignment. 5. Edit the page

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS 1.8: How to produce a sheet line system map?

2013-03-01 Thread Brad Nesom
in arcmap I can setup ddp (data driven pages). Run a tool to split my alignment by a given length, and then tell ddp to create a sheet for each segment. Which is ok until your segments go from north-south to east-west orientation (makes you decide whether to rotate the page or not or make a square

Re: [Qgis-user] Opening gdb files

2013-02-05 Thread Brad Nesom
Did you choose add vector data, folder? then browse to the folder.gdb. On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Paul Lens paul.l...@gmx.com wrote: Hi List, I cannot open gdb files, using QGIS 1.8.9 GDAL/OGR 1.9.2 on windows Vista sp2. According to the post: http://gis.stackexchange.com/**

Re: [Qgis-user] Opening gdb files

2013-02-05 Thread Brad Nesom
Did you choose add vector data, folder? then browse to the folder.gdb. On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Paul Lens paul.l...@gmx.com wrote: Hi List, I cannot open gdb files, using QGIS 1.8.9 GDAL/OGR 1.9.2 on windows Vista sp2. According to the post: http://gis.stackexchange.com/**

Re: [Qgis-user] How to join shapefile tables via their FIDs?

2012-12-03 Thread Brad Nesom
actually I think you probably want the intersect command. I don't see it in the help so. Vector geoprocessing tools intersect. Choose your point file first and the polygon layer to overlay with it. it will append all attributes from the polygon layer to the point layer. Then you can join the

Re: [Qgis-user] DXF EXPORT

2012-10-02 Thread Brad Nesom
I see it in qgis 1.9.0 gdal 1.9.1-2 On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 7:05 AM, Zirneklitis e...@lanet.lv wrote: LWPOLYLINE handle should not be zero: http://hub.qgis.org/issues/4381#note-5 Reincarnation of old bug? What is the QGIS and GDAL versions? Karlis the_sloth wrote: Ok, I am using

Re: [Qgis-user] DXF EXPORT

2012-09-27 Thread Brad Nesom
the problem is that gdal starts writing objects out with a zero handle (which is an internal guid for autodesk) I had been using 1.8 but just installed 1.9.0 and gdal 1.7.3 and still get the same error. On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Brad Nesom gisbrado...@live.com wrote: The error might help

Re: [Qgis-user] DXF file geometry

2012-06-19 Thread Brad Nesom
that is probably the insert (anchor?), the centroid, label point, and the line list that make up the polygons. On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 6:01 AM, Philippe de FRANCLIEU p...@parcellesetpolygones.fr wrote: ** Hi, The geometry of a DXF file (french PCI-DXF) is defined as Polygon in the

Re: [Qgis-user] FW: Problem with Ubuntu 12

2012-06-14 Thread Brad Nesom
and some of us may not even understand. I have kubuntu. Something said here seems to mean that is (KDE) unity? but don't understand if that is true. On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Etienne Tourigny etourigny@gmail.comwrote: Agreed - but many Unity users might not, so it should at least

Re: [Qgis-user] Digitizing Idea...

2012-03-21 Thread Brad Nesom
or autocad rasters snap. http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/index?id=2600114siteID=123112 On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 3:58 AM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: A qgis version of Arc' R2V? http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/proc98/proceed/to200/pap195/p195.htm On

Re: [Qgis-user] KML import into QGIS problems and confusion

2012-02-10 Thread Brad Nesom
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:41 AM, spiderplant0 spiderpla...@gmail.comwrote: I am having problems importing KML vectors into QGIS. To try and figure out whats going wrong I carried out an experiment... In QGIS, created a simple vector shapefile containing one polygon (set to EPSG900913).

Re: [Qgis-user] files dwg in QGIS

2011-12-19 Thread Brad Nesom
I believe dwg is supported in the fdo library. I have often wondered what kept the qgis dev from using fdo? http://fdo.osgeo.org/OSProviderOverviews.html I do see some overlap but adding eliminating providers is a simple task (that even I can do). On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Even Rouault

Re: [Qgis-user] files dwg in QGIS

2011-12-19 Thread Brad Nesom
be one reason to look into FDO. Andreas On 12/19/2011 08:50 PM, Brad Nesom wrote: I believe dwg is supported in the fdo library. I have often wondered what kept the qgis dev from using fdo? http://fdo.osgeo.org/OSProviderOverviews.html I do see some overlap but adding eliminating providers

Re: [Qgis-user] new xytools plugin: now open and save simple Excel files

2011-12-15 Thread Brad Nesom
Filipe, You should note that excel does that on it's own. if you look at your data and there is a small green triangle in the upper left corner, that means the data is available to be formated as numeric. simply select all the cells that show that (don't select the column heading name) and then

Re: [Qgis-user] new xytools plugin: now open and save simple Excel files

2011-12-15 Thread Brad Nesom
table to excel. Thanks On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:14 PM, Brad Nesom gisbrado...@live.com wrote: Filipe, You should note that excel does that on it's own. if you look at your data and there is a small green triangle in the upper left corner, that means the data is available to be formated

Re: [Qgis-user] Transparency of categorized layers

2011-11-14 Thread Brad Nesom
you might try applying the transparency before categorizing. On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Roger André ran...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Is there a way to apply a uniform amount of transparency to every category in a categorized layer? In other words, to treat the categorized layers as a

Re: [Qgis-user] RE: [Qgis-community-team] Problem changing a shapefile's coordinates

2011-09-28 Thread Brad Nesom
we like to hear about the solutions. (esp when they are silly). I was about to suggest gdal for raster re-project. but knew you would need the original projection. glad to hear. 2011/9/28 giannis Nj netsag...@hotmail.com Problem solved guys, than you all for the help.

Re: [Qgis-user] Problem changing a shapefile's coordinates

2011-09-27 Thread Brad Nesom
my suggestion is load each file seperately by itself. find a location in the file tha tis at least close to the same point for each.note the coordinates of the project. if all the files are in fact lat lon (4326) the values should be like 35, 98. or 35, -98 if they are 100k size there is a good

Re: [Qgis-user] Reset GISDBASE for GRASS plugin

2011-09-20 Thread Brad Nesom
\GrassData However since updating my osgeo4w installation I now have no .grass6 file. And there is a .grassrc6 file and a .grasswx6 file. grass starts (standalone) but the error in qgis persists. On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 4:52 AM, Micha Silver mi...@arava.co.il wrote: On 19/09/2011 17:21, Brad Nesom

[Qgis-user] Natty apt key

2011-09-04 Thread Brad Nesom
I upgraded to natty this weekend and am trying to get my qgis up and running again. When I use the apt key from the qgis.org website I still get 2010 expired 8-14-11 Is there a new key for natty? ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org

[Qgis-user] Re: Natty apt key

2011-09-04 Thread Brad Nesom
-common_1.7.0~natty1_all.deb Size mismatch W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable/ubuntu/pool/main/q/qgis/qgis-plugin-grass-common_1.7.0~natty1_all.deb Size mismatch On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Brad Nesom gisbrado...@live.com wrote: I upgraded to natty

Re: [Qgis-user] change CRS of layer

2011-07-31 Thread Brad Nesom
as long as the incorrect layer is shp. you can delete (rename would be better) the prj file. On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 4:40 AM, Matt Boyd mattsli...@gmail.com wrote: If the layer isn't being picked up correctly in the first place I'd go: create new project: set project CRS to the one the layer

Re: [Qgis-user] Re: Multiple geometries in an import file (Darryl Bailey)

2011-07-25 Thread Brad Nesom
The benefit of object oriented programming. ESRI has the network analyst extension, schematics extension, which together allow the topology to be accurately described (network analyst) and the data to be simplified for cartographic (schematic) purposes. Along with full support for many RDBMS rules

Re: [Qgis-user] Mapbooks with Easyprint

2011-07-14 Thread Brad Nesom
hello Giovanni, I added this repository last week also. I was not included in my osgeo4w install. On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Alexandre Neto senhor.n...@gmail.comwrote: Hello Giovanni, I have the one installed by default with QGIS 1.7. Version 1.2.1. And that Repository was not

Re: [Qgis-user] Batch query web database

2011-07-12 Thread Brad Nesom
Perhaps just build an attribute with the link in it? In most cases the atttribute table would be displayed in a seperate window anyway. so if the browser is the seperate window so what? On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Lee muell...@gmail.com wrote: Not necessarily a qgis question, but one

Re: [Qgis-user] win7 install prob osgeo4w

2011-06-24 Thread Brad Nesom
not the same message as mine but it is in the /bin. I am having a problem installing osgeo4w on win7. It downloads and then starts install and comes to cygwin and says stop any instances of cygwin running or continue with restart. ___ Qgis-user mailing

Re: [Qgis-user] scale dependent point clustering (for visualization only)

2011-06-01 Thread Brad Nesom
something similar to this? http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapi/flex/samples/index.html?sample=FeatureLayerClustering I don't mean for the post to irritate. It is such an elegant solution (although a web solution) I just had to show it. Maybe someone can work some magic in qgis. On Fri, May 27,

Re: [Qgis-user] 1-band raster plugin and grass r.colors

2011-05-19 Thread Brad Nesom
Hello Benoit, Did you leave out the reference to [1]? On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 2:53 AM, Benoit benoi...@bc-consult.com wrote: Hi Maning, Short answer: No. I've only included a few default rules from Grass. Note that 1-band raster colour plugin is based on colour palette files (one file

[Qgis-user] enceladus image

2011-05-13 Thread Brad Nesom
I thought this was a nice photo of a version gone by. http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110512.html ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user

Re: [Qgis-user] Python Code to Clip Vector layers

2011-05-10 Thread Brad Nesom
Did you look in arcpy? On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Saber razmjoo...@faunalia.co.uk wrote: For basic clipping, you can try ogr2ogr tool. Its a command line tool which you can write shell scripts for. Cheers Saber DelphineJB del_cad...@hotmail.com wrote: I am new to Python

Re: [Qgis-user] Re: ArcInfo gdb file system

2011-04-25 Thread Brad Nesom
to help clarify. The file geodatabase format for esri is a folder structure with a name like mydata.gdb (folder name). There are many, many files in that folder. The file containing gps data would be the garmin file. There are differences in the two files. Easily identifiable though because one is

Re: [Qgis-user] Re: ArcInfo gdb file system

2011-04-25 Thread Brad Nesom
, sam On 4/25/11, Brad Nesom gisbrado...@live.com wrote: to help clarify. The file geodatabase format for esri is a folder structure with a name like mydata.gdb (folder name). There are many, many files in that folder. The file containing gps data would be the garmin file

[Qgis-user] update osgeo4w problem

2011-03-25 Thread Brad Nesom
I have been attempting to update my osgeo4w through the installer and thought it was a problem on my end. I have been watching now and noticed that it stops at the same place each time. The xerces-c-vc9-3.1.1-1.tar.bz2 seems to be the problem. Does anyone else have this problem through osgeo4w

Re: Large shape files and databases. WAS: [Qgis-user] Very slow performance with large SHP files, with over 200k objects

2011-03-07 Thread Brad Nesom
http://workshops.opengeo.org/postgis-intro/creating_db.html very nice demo and documentation here. On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 10:07 PM, Matt Boyd mattsli...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Richard, the postgis extensions to the Postgresql database work very well in my experience. If you're using windows a

[Qgis-user] Grass Plugin

2011-01-28 Thread Brad Nesom
I have had this problem for all time on xp, osgeo4w. updating and new dev, nothing has fixed it. Now I find a page that says this env is not supposed to be used anymore. 1. Is this just my problem? 2. Does anyone know how to fix it? G_getenv(): Variable GISDBASE not set Grassbook chapter 11

Re: [Qgis-user] Re: Newbie question - gml files

2011-01-04 Thread Brad Nesom
if these were all point files and especially there are no files with polygons involved, you could perhaps export to excel and modify then re-import from text. You would want to be sure to keep as many decimals as possible to maintain accuracy. On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Micha Silver

Re: [Qgis-user] image vectorization

2010-11-15 Thread Brad Nesom
and then go for vectorization. I have attempted the gdal polygonize (I really want lines) and the contour with no good results. Is r.thin the correct (or even an acceptable) direction to go for vectorization? If using classification in qgis what is created? another image to use for vectorization?

[Qgis-user] satellite band manipulation

2010-10-07 Thread Brad Nesom
I am interested in applying the theory described in the linked article to a satellite image. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.140.5218rep=rep1type=pdf My goal is to depict hot spots on the earth surface. My problem is I am not very mathematically inclined and I don't

[Qgis-user] check Qgis version

2010-08-03 Thread Brad Nesom
version 1.6 r13999 In the check qgis version dialog under the help pulldown it says the following. The current released version of QGIS is 1.4.0 Enceladus. The development version (1.5.0 AKA Trunk) contains a number of bug fixes and enhancements Details on changes can be found by examining the

[Qgis-user] postgis problem 1.5

2010-08-03 Thread Brad Nesom
Having a problem connecting to postgis. I get successful verification on the test connection but inval privileges when I use connect. However I just opened 1.6 and connected successully to the same ddataset. Anyone verify this? ___ Qgis-user mailing list

Re: [Qgis-user] US Windfarm shapefile

2010-07-01 Thread Brad Nesom
Still no shape but here is buildout within a 48 nm radius of your lat lon. https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external/gisTools/gisAction.jsp?action=showWtBuildOutToolForm On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Gerald Creager gerry.crea...@tamu.eduwrote: Title pretty much says it all, although I'm especially

[Qgis-user] mapfile plugin

2010-06-17 Thread Brad Nesom
I attempt to install the UMN mapfile tools ver 0.3 plugin and get an error that the plugin is broken. Is this for an older qgis version? I am running 1.5 ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org